How do you use QTFairUse ?

[nrichey]

I finally found and downloaded the needle-in-the-haystack for QTFairUse on Kazaa Lite K++! Now the question is: How do I use it?

If anyone else has it, let me know! Thanks!

[phalkon30]

I've searched for a few minutes on google, and only really found out information about the release and how it works.

It honestly doesn't sound that great. You'd be better off burning to a cd and ripping to your favorite format. But thats my opinion.

[isus]

you don't. you take the easy way out, take the minor quality hit, burn the aac track, and rip as mp3.

[Vlet]

Some info:
http://www.geekpatrol.ca/archives/2003/11/28/qtfairuse.php

[notbob]

reading the instructions helps

they are right in the frigging archive

(if you can't use a command line, give up now)

[nrichey]

(if you can't use a command line, give up now)

Notbob, perhaps you're right, but I am asking this because according to The Register Article (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/34141.html) it says to use MSYS to use QTFairUse.

In fact, I looked at the instructions but cannot figure out what commands to type in for what to get this in the iTunes program. I just thought if any experts understood how to use MSYS (Maybe Random Nut :;) ) they can give me instructions on how to do it, or if they can point me to a web site that would say how: this is the reason I posted the question.

[isus]

what the hell are you talking about "I looked at the instructions but cannot figure out what commands to type in for what to get this in the iTunes program"... it doesn't go in itunes, it's a different app entirely (as far as i know).

[notbob]

you need msys and mingw

you need to use command lines to set up mingw, then you have to untar and un gzip the archive, then run a command to compile it

all of this to unlock a file you could have burned to cd a few hours before, or in that time, downloaded a good version for free from p2p

[nrichey]

So what both of you are saying, notbob and isus, is that QTFairUse is for dealing with iTunes music files and not to change the iTunes program itself.

Hmmm....that is a big hassle, but it would be really nice to know how to use MinGW and MSYS.

I will ditch the QTFairUse and continue downloading P2P and might download music from the new Napster.

[isus]

lol. to get even more specific, itunes itself has no music files. qtfairuse is for ripping the raw data of the itms aac's, which are protected. besides, even if we taught you how to use qtfairuse, we would then need to teach you how to take the header-less aac and turn it into something a media player can read/play.