Burning Purchased Songs

I know some programs similar to iTunes either limit the number of burns you can do or don't let you burn the songs at all. Does iTunes fall into one of these categories? I've never burned purchased songs, but I recently got a gift card and I want to make sure I would be able to.
Thanks,
Matt

The 7 time burn limit is there, but there is a rather simple way around it. Simply burn the CD in whatever order you want, then re-import that CD you just burned into iTunes. You can then delete the protected AAC files of the purchased songs and use the newly imported files instead. This way the 7 burn limit to each playlist is eliminated.
This will result in a transcoded file, which will result in a file of slightly lesser sound quality, but try it and see if you notice it and can live with the difference.

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