Free Itunes To Mp3 Tool Released By Dvd Jon

[GhostShip]

Not sure this will suit everyones tastes but its a beta and its free 

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9873241-7.html?tag=nefd.pop

Called DoubleTwist, it's a free desktop client that essentially allows any kind of music, photo, or video file to be shared between a long list of portable media players, and through Web-based social networks.
Instead of iTunes songs or videos taken with a Nokia N95 remaining locked on the phone, DoubleTwist software allows for dragging, dropping, and syncing of different media formats no matter the device.

The idea, according to DoubleTwist founder and CEO Monique Farantzos, is that media files should be more like e-mail. It shouldn't matter what service you create the file in, or on what type of hardware, it all should work together seamlessly, she says.
"It's one opportunity to write something for your Web site for use by a couple thousand geeks," Jon Lech Johansen said in an interview. But with DoubleTwist, the idea is to hide all the complexity of making easy transfers of files from the user so that even non-techie types will understand. "The goal is to make something your parents can use," he said.

http://www.doubletwist.com/dt/Home/Index.dt

I,m sure someone will find this interesting but as its a commercial firm giving it away for free I have some reservations as to how they intend to profit from this, a desktop laden with ads is not something most of us would stomach so lets hope they make their profit model transparent in the final release.

[White Stripes]

would be better if folks didnt buy this closed/drm/DMCA/proprietary crap in the first place...

note for those who already have an ipod head on over to www.rockbox.org and replace the firmware with something usefull... as for itunes... convert your collection then uninstall it...

as for converting from AAC (mp4/m4a and whatever other container format it can be held in) to mp3 it would be better just to unlock the protection and keep the original encoding... transcoding a lossy format to another lossy format (esp mp3) is a bad idea...