FairGame is a DRM stripper for the Mac for iTunes DRM protected files. Here is my story of trying it out and the outcome.

My first MP3 player was a Rio 500, it wasn't the greatest player of all time of course, but for it's day it had some mojo. One of the Rio 500's capabilities was it's ability to play Audible.com audio files. I quickly fell in love with Audible.com. At that time my membership was only $13.50 per month for any two audiobooks - a great deal compared to today's $22.50.

I stopped subscribing when I upgraded to a Rio Nitrus, which did not have the capability to play Audible.com files. Even though I no longer subscribe to Audible.com I still have full access to all of the audio books which I bought during the time I subscribed.

I've been using my Rio Carbon MP3 player for the past two years, and I recently decided to re-listen to one of the funniest books I've ever read (listened to), the book is Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates by Tom Robbins. I decided that in a rare move, I wanted to relisted to this book. But I didn't want to listen to it at my computer - I needed to strip the DRM from this book which I legal bought rights to so that it could play on my Rio Carbon MP3 player.

After a little searching on the web I ran across FairGame. I tried to run FairGame on my purchased Audible.com Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates file, but it errored out. Damn! From what I gathered, I thought it was going to work. I'd like to try it on an iTMS purchased music track, but alas I don't buy music from iTMS. Has anybody else tried FairGame? Did it work for you on music? what about Audible.com?

I ended up playing the Audible file on iTunes and captured the playback with Audio HiJack Pro, then used AudioSlicer to split it up into smaller files where there were blank passages in the audiobook.


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