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My wife and I stopped off at Starbucks this morning. Along with my change I got a card with a cheery explanation that throughout October Starbucks and Apple iTunes are teaming up to give away a song per day. Isn’t that nice of them? Today’s song is a Bob Dylan track off his Infidels album.

We do own an iPod but it is my daughters and she is not likely to be into Bob Dylan. I my wife and I own other mp3 players both of witch don’t work with Apple’s brand of Digital Restriction Management. So, thanks Starbucks but the song you gave me is useless. Ok, yeah, I could sit it my computer and listen to it. Right.

Only thing to do is pour a glass of rum, run up the skull and crossbones and grab a CD-RW (no sense wasting a whole CD). Argh! Ok, the pirate motif is a little much but there is no reason the average person should have to feel that way just to put the music in a spot where they can actually listen to it. Their goal of getting me to buy future songs and videos was lost on me.

So what about my Dylan song?

1. Create a play list in iTunes (I called it Burn Me) and add the song to it
2. Pop in a CD-RW and use iTunes to burn the playlist to the CD as an Audio CD
3. Use another tool such a Windows Media Player to rip the CD to MP3
4. Enjoy your song