iTunes: How to Remove Personal Information from DRM Free iTunes Plus Songs using iTunes
Recently Apple announced the availability of DRM free music files from iTunes stores branded as iTunes Plus tracks, by now all of you might be aware that Apple embeds your iTunes account information in the DRM free songs that you purchase from them.
Now let us see how we can remove these information from the DRM free songs using iTunes.
1. Open iTunes go to Edit > Preferences now in the window that is displayed to you select the Advanced Tab and click on the importing tab.
2. Now change the setting “Import Using” to AAC Encoder, select “Custom” for Setting. Now select bitrate that you feel appropriate, I would recommend you select 256Kbps bitrate.
3. Now you are going to re-encode the songs that you purchased from iTunes stores. Select the songs from which you wish to remove iTunes account information, now right click those selected songs and select “Convert selection to AAC”.
4. The re-encoded songs will appear in a few seconds (that depends upon your CPU’s number crunching abilities). Now select the songs that you re-encoded, now right click it and select “Get Info”. Check if your iTunes account information has been removed and you will find it gone. 
Found Via Peppery9.net, refer to this link for more screen shots and more detailed explanation.
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I think this is probably one of the greatest things I’ve read today.
Except for the fact that when you attempt to convert a protected file, it will tell you that it can’t be converted, because it’s protected.
You can always burn the tracks to an audio cd, and re-import them.
Plus, why would you convert a 128kbps file to anything higher? It’s not going to improve the sound quality…
Maybe it’s just me.
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These are for iTunes Plus songs, they’re unencrypted (no DRM) and are at 250kbps AAC.
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Obviously, they don’t want the file ending up on a file sharing network. Putting your identifying info in it should deter you from sharing your library. If they find a ton of songs on filesharing networks with your id, then you probably were actively sharing your files with the world. If you have money and they catch you, you will most likely pay alot of money. They offer the songs at a reasonable price now. There’s no longer justification for taking them without paying for them. It used to be that you would have to pay $15 for a CD to get the 1 good song, provided you followed the law. If you can’t pay a buck or two for the song, then contact the artists. Maybe they’ll give it to you since your starving, don’t smoke and don’t drink. Otherwise, pay for the song and quit bitching.
On a technical basis this stripping mechanism should degarde the quality slightly, since AAC is a lossy format. Everytime you reencode the file you add 1 more level of loss. The original work was not compressed. Then it was compressed once. This is the copy you bought. Reencoding it adds 1 more leel of loss. It still is probably pretty good, but not as good as what you bought.