How to Unlock iPod Songs

• 1). Open your iTunes program. Click the "File" pull-down menu and select "New Playlist." Choose a title so that you can personalize it. Otherwise, it will stay "untitled playlist" followed by the number of however many untitled playlists you have started.
  
  
• 2). Drag the dark gray pill-shaped cursor next to the left-hand column to the top so that the "Library" section is visible. Click "Music" so that your entire music library is visible. Drag the dark gray pill-shaped cursor back down so that the playlist you have just created is visible. Click on a song that will not play on your iPod so that it is highlighted. Click and hold the highlighted song so that you can drag it into the playlist you have created. When the song you are dragging appears over your playlist, the playlist will be highlighted and you will see a green circle with a white plus sign. You can let go of the song now. Repeat for each song that will not play on your iPod.
  
  
• 3). Double click on the playlist that you have created after you have added songs to it. A separate screen will open with the songs you have added. You can drag new songs into this box or to the playlist name in the left-hand column. Each recordable CD (CD-R) can hold slightly less than the 80 minutes of music. At the bottom of the pop-up playlist box, there will be a song and time total for your playlist. After you have added 60 minutes of music, it will no longer show the total minutes. It will show the total time in hours. The CD-R cannot hold more than 1.2 hours of music.
  
  
• 4). Click the "Burn Disc" button near the bottom right-hand corner of the playlist box once you are ready to burn it onto your CD-R. A "Burn Settings" box will pop up. Click the circle by "Audio CD" if it is not already selected. Click "Burn" then insert a blank CD-R to record the songs onto the disc.
  
  
• 5). Click the newly burned CD in "Devices" section of the left-hand column so that the playlist fills the right-hand side of the screen. Click the "Import CD" button in the lower right-hand corner to load the songs back into your library. The versions that you have burned onto the CD-R will no longer have the DRM coding. You can play them on any device.