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hymn (Hear Your Music aNywhere) is a piece of computer software, and the successor to the PlayFair program. The purpose of hymn, according to its author (who is currently anonymous for fear of legal proceedings), is to allow people to exercise their fair use rights under United States copyright law. Image File history File links Portal. ...
Software, or program, enables a computer to perform specific tasks, as opposed to the physical components of the system (hardware). ...
The Playfair system was invented by Charles Wheatstone, first described in 1854. ...
For fair use in trademark law, see Fair use (US trademark law). ...
United States copyright law governs the legally enforceable rights of creative and artistic works in the United States. ...
The program allows the user to remove the FairPlay DRM restrictions of tunes bought from the iTunes Music Store. FairPlay is a digital rights management (DRM) technology created by Apple Inc. ...
Digital Rights Management (generally abbreviated to DRM) is an umbrella term that refers to any of several technologies used by publishers or copyright owners to control access to and usage of digital data or hardware, and to restrictions associated with a specific instance of a digital work or device. ...
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Most DRM removal programs rely on re-compressing the media that is captured after it is output by iTunes. This causes some loss in quality. However, hymn can remove DRM with no reduction in sound quality, since it captures the raw AAC stream generated by iTunes as it opens each song, and saves this data using a compression structure identical to that of the original file, preserving both the quality and the small file size. The resultant files can then be played outside of the iTunes environment, including operating systems not supported by iTunes. It works (with a plugged-in iPod) on Mac OS X, on many Unix variants, and also on Windows (with or without an iPod). An operating system (OS) is a computer program that manages the hardware and software resources of a computer. ...
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Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ...
Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®) is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ...
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The Mac OS X version includes a drag-and-drop graphical user interface. All other platforms have only a command-line interface at this time. Prebuilt binaries are available for both Mac OS X and Windows, and the source code is available for all platforms. There is also a Java-based GUI version of the program called JHymn. A graphical user interface (or GUI, often pronounced gooey), is a particular case of user interface for interacting with a computer which employs graphical images and widgets in addition to text to represent the information and actions available to the user. ...
A command line interface or CLI is a method of interacting with a computer by giving it lines of textual commands (that is, a sequence of characters) either from keyboard input or from a script. ...
Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. ...
GUI can refer to the following: GUI is short for graphical user interface, a term used to describe a type of interface in computing. ...
JHymn (Java Hear Your Music aNywhere) is a piece of computer software. ...
The program and its source code are available under the GNU General Public License. Source code (commonly just source or code) is any series of statements written in some human-readable computer programming language. ...
The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ...
JHymn superseded hymn as the official software of The Hymn Project. JHymn (Java Hear Your Music aNywhere) is a piece of computer software. ...
JHymn and hymn will only function with iTunes clients previous to version 6.0. However, purchasing music with these older versions is no longer supported by Apple. The hymn project is currently still working on a fix so that their software will work with iTunes clients 6.0 and later. The Hymn website has announced that, because users can no longer purchase music using iTunes 5 or older, removal of iTunes DRM for now is best accomplished with the use of MyFairTunes6 or QTFairUse6. These programs currently work with the latest version of iTunes (7.0.2 as of December 2006). The version history of iTunes spans from 2001 until the present and covers the applications evolution and refinement from a simple music player to a control center for many types of media. ...
QTFairUse is Free / Open Source software first released in November 2003 by Jon Lech Johansen. ...
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