February 2008, PC Utilities, quotes and excerpts from the review:

"Digital Rights Management is the bane of many a music fan. In the past, tracks bought online from sites such as the iTunes Store all came with DRM restrictions, which severely limit how you can use the song you´ve paid for. This often means you can´t transfer them to your portable media player - Apple´s FairPlay DRM technology means you can only copy tracks to iPods, for instance - or are limited in the number of times you can burn the tracks to CD. One of the biggest problem with DRM technology is that it can easily be circumvented - simply burn tracks to CD then rip them back to your PC in unprotected format - rendering all the restrictions pointless.

Online music stores and record companies alike are beginning to listen to fans and are making more and more of their material available in non-DRM-protected format. But where does that leave consumers who already have a hard drive filled with crippled media? Tunebite may be the answer.

The program is designed to provide a simple means of removing DRM shackles from over 50 audio and video formats, and can also be used to convert files into a suitable format for your particular flavour of portable media player. This Platinum edition supports the full spectrum of media files, but cheaper Classic and Premium versions are available if you don´t need to convert all formats.

As a general purpose file conversion tool, Tunebite´s versatility is a point in its favour, especially when you figure in its ability to record streaming media, create ringtones and more...

A good all-round file conversion tool with a number of interesting additional functions.

Tunebite direct

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