NoteBurner Audio Converter...

I hate DRM!  So, one of the first things I do when my darling wife purchases her music from iTunes is to convert it to mp3 to remove the limitations from the music.  Is it illegal, probably, but I don't distribute the music.  I don't pass it around to everyone, I don't spread it around with bit torrents, I simply want to have a copy of it without DRM.  That way in a year or two, or maybe three when I have gone through a couple of different computers I dont have to hassle with authorizing and de-authorizing players.  The mp3 format also gives me more flexibility as to how and where I play the music.
In iTunes, on a Mac, the only way to convert the files from Apple proprietary mp4 format is to insert a blank compact disc and burn a playlist as an audio cd, then import the CD as an mp3.  This task is time consuming and gets expensive when you consider a blank CD costs .29.  Not to mention the CD is wasted because like I said above I dont distribute that copyrighted DRM'd material.  On a windows machine there are numerous options for creating a virtual CD drive on the computer to trick iTunes in to thinking that it's burning to a real CD.  I used to use daemon tools and it did the trick.  On a Mac I could not find any options for creating this virtual drive until I came across NoteBurner Audio Converter.
Despite the $39.99 price tag it's a must have application!  Once installed in the super simple OS X way it required a restart to make the virtual drive available.  Now for the cool part, Noteburner not only fools itunes in to thinking that it has a blank CD, but it also automatically converts the audio files in to mp3 for you! 
All I had to do was create the playlist of files that I wanted to buin to a CD, click the Burn CD button, then select the Noteburner Virtual Drive from the drive selections.  It was that easy! 
I dont feel so bad about buying some music from iTunes now that I have a easy way to convert my purchased audio to a format I prefer.