Transferring music from windows to mac HELP!

Helping my Mom "swithch" but I am having a little problem moving her purchased music to the new imac. I have transferred all the files and they transferred perfect, but I do not have access to play them, and all 5 machines have been authorized already. Is there a way to move them to the new imac?

i suppose you might try to get your mom to call or email itunes and through a fit about how their silly 5-computer limit thing has blocked you, and they might give you another. there are also sites out there that tell you how to go through a laborious process (there are no simple programs) to illegally break the protection, but you have to download all sorts of programs and then burn the songs to cds, delete them, rerip them and stuff. if you want to try that, id suggest googling "convert mpeg4 audio files protected" (without the quotes in the search) or something like that. hope that helps. or maybe download one of the illegal ipod-to-computer programs like yamipod (which you can also google) and then move the files onto the ipod and from the ipod straight to your mom's itunes program, but i doubt that'd work. I think you either have to get to some relatively high-up itunes official type, repurchase the music, or go through a laborious illegal process.

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