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How to remove DRM, convert DRM music to plain MP3: remove drm

Digital Right Management (DRM) is a kind of access control technology, which can limit usage of digital media. Nowadays, many music stores such as iTunes Store, Napster Music Store, Wal-Mart Music Downloads, and Sony Connect, sell music online and they use DRM to restrict buyers to share their music with other people. However, even the legal owners would feel this restriction would be inconvenient for them, if they need to transfer these music files to their portable digital devices like iPod, Zune, Zen, PSP, and mobile phones. You know, even authurizing iPod or iPhone to play protected music is so hard to operate for some computer users. So, to remove DRM from these music sounds great.

TunePat: Bypass DRM with a virtual CD-RW, remove drm

Step 1. Download and install TunePat. This software excellently converts DRM music to plain MP3 or WMA, DRM protected WMA music to MP3 or unprotected WMA, as well as converting any other audio files to MP3, WMA or WAV format. While converting audio files at fast speed, TunePat encodes MP3, WMA and WAV files with outstanding sound quality through the virtual CD-RW installed.

Step 2. Open TunePat, go to Settings and set MP3 or other formats as output format. If you like, you can change encoding codec, select different format bitrate, etc:

Note: This TunePat can convert iTunes music to WAV and WMA formats as well.

Step 3. In iTunes, go to menu File > New Playlist, create a new play list to add the DRM music you want to convert:

Step 4. Turn to this new play list, click Burn Disc button on the bottom-right of iTunes, and set TunePat as CD burner in Burn Settings window:

Step 5. TunePat will burn these DRM protected files virtually, and after a while, you are able to check converted files in TunePat. You can also right click on the music, and select Open File Location to find it in your hard drive:

What's DRM & Why Use It, remove drm

Digital rights management (DRM) is a generic term that refers to access control technologies used by hardware manufacturers, publishers and copyright holders to limit usage of digital media or devices. The term is used to describe any technology which makes the unauthorized use of media or devices technically formidable, and generally doesn't include other forms of copy protection which can be circumvented without modifying the media or device, such as serial numbers or keyfiles. It can also refer to restrictions associated with specific instances of digital works or devices.

DRM & Audio: remove drm

Audio CDs. Discs with DRM installed are not legitimately standards-compliant Compact Discs (CDs) but rather CD-ROM media. They all lack the CD logotype found on discs which follow the standard (known as Red Book). Therefore these CDs could not be played on all CD players. Many consumers could also no longer play purchased CDs on their computers. PCs running Microsoft Windows would sometimes even crash when attempting to play the CDs.

Internet music. Many online music stores employ DRM to restrict usage of music purchased and downloaded online, such as iTunes Store, Napster music store, Wal-mart Music Downloads, and Sony Connect. For example, iTunes Store's songs are protected by Apple's FairPlay DRM system; Napster's and Wal-Mart's by Microsoft PlaysForSure;Sony's by OpenMG technology.

Audiobooks. There are so many famous audio book distributors nowadays, such as iTunes Store, Amazon, Audible.com, Booksfree.com, Jiggerbug.com, etc. Some of them sell audio books with DRM restrictions to limit copying and sharing.