I unfortunetly had purchased some music and videos from iTunes and was wondering if any one knew of an easy way to convert them.

I know iTunes lets you burn cdroms which can be ripped, and in the past I had used a screen capture program to record a vid to another format, but is there a more automated way to convert these things?

Ripping to a cdrom and then converting is the only legal way I know. A quick Google shows potential other ways but I'm not sure I should put a link here.

There are apps that will convert them by processing the audio (in real-time) through your sound card and then writing them to a new file... There are also a few apps that will crack the original audio and save new files (which is much quicker). But, yes, do a Google search.

Tim

This is why Apple charge more for unlocked tracks on iTunes.

Holding the "shift" key no longer works?

That was Sony's CD protection, not iTunes

I found this,
http://www.noteburner.com/index.html

I'm assuming its legal since all it does is emulate a cdrom burner and directly converts burned audio tracks into mp3 files.

I put everything into one giant playlist and its converting it all at once, I don't have to deal with cdrom disc swapping and ripping.

Still have to figure out what to do with these videos though :P

Try googling "fair use itunes".