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Remove DRM from iTunes

October 22nd, 2009 - How to, Mac OS X, Tips & Tricks, iTunes

itunes DRM on songs is restrictive and obnoxious, you paid for the music therefore it belongs to you. Unfortunately record companies don’t always agree with us, so when you buy something like a song from iTunes it’ll often come with DRM protection preventing you from doing what you want to do with it.

Remove DRM from songs using iTunes

Ironically, you can use iTunes itself to remove DRM from the songs you just paid for on iTunes with DRM forced on you. This is the easiest way to do it:

* Create a playlist within iTunes that includes all the songs with DRM
* Using a blank CD-R disk, Burn the DRM songs to this CD with iTunes
* Once the CD is burnt, re-rip the entire CD with iTunes
* Your newly imported songs will be DRM free! To avoid confusion you may want to delete the originals with DRM protection.

This method to remove the DRM protection works on Mac OS X and Windows, so regardless of where your iTunes music is stored you’ll be able to remove the restriction.

Posted by: David Mendez

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Comments: 10

Comment from Mariusz Nowak
Time: October 22, 2009, 12:11 pm

Wouldn’t that degrade quality. It’s like mp3 -> wav -> CD -> wav -> mp3 isn’t ?
Probably difference would be hard to tell.. but stil :)

Comment from Polywog
Time: October 22, 2009, 12:49 pm

It would degrade the quality quite a bit, unless you went from the DRM copy -> CD -> Apple Lossless.

Comment from DRM Sucks
Time: October 22, 2009, 1:23 pm

worked like a charm, screw DRM! thansk

Comment from Kindour
Time: October 22, 2009, 7:01 pm

This method is great!

However, it can only be used to remove DRM from iTunes “Songs”. And it is a waste of CD discs if you have lots of songs ready to be burnt.

I’d like recommend checking out this tutorial about how to remove DRM from iTunes M4P M4V M4B:

http://www.softdiggs.com/howto/remove-drm-from-itunes-m4p-m4v.php

Comment from Joe
Time: October 28, 2009, 7:43 am

Helpful tip.
I used this iTunes backup software to backup my iTunes files in a simple way instead of using discs.

http://ipod-tool.com/ipod-software/itunes-backup.html

It is an easy to use iTunes utility designed to help you backup/recover/transfer your whole iTunes library and media files. It offers a simple way to keep your iTunes in sync everywhere. You can use it to backup your own iTunes library or synchronize multiple iTunes on different computers. The backed up library file is pretty easy to transfer to other iTunes, and it’s easy to manage.

Comment from aardman
Time: November 3, 2009, 9:54 am

You don’t need to burn a CD. I use iMovie HD.app (not the current version which is iMovie.app).

1. Open a new iMovie project and put a short, short vid clip in the timeline, trim it down if needed to, say, 1 second. You won’t record it but iMovie looks for one. You might want to strip the audio; click Advanced>Extract Audio. Then highlight the audio track on the timeline and delete it.

2. Now put your .m4p song right after the vid clip on the timeline. Then export this to Quicktime, save as a .mov file. You can close iMovie HD now.

3. Open the saved .mov file in MPEG Streamclip.app (google that). Position the playhead where the video clip ends and the audio clip starts then click Edit>Select In to put an in marker on that spot.

4. Now click File>Export to Audio and just follow the prompts. Choose .aiff file for least compression/data loss.

Comment from aardman
Time: November 3, 2009, 10:00 am

Note: Even older versions of iMovie can directly export .m4p files to non-DRM .aiff (and other) formats.

Comment from dudude
Time: November 13, 2009, 1:25 am

This article shows three ways to remove DRM protection from iTunes music on Mac OS X, including burn-and-rip DVD and iMovie:

http://mac.tuneclone.com/how-to-remove-drm-from-itunes-music-on-mac.php

Comment from Elena
Time: November 23, 2009, 6:47 am

Dear all,
I’m a student of Management Engineering at Politecnico di Torino. One of the objectives of my master thesis, applied to a real case study, is the protection of confidential or valuable content using Digital Rights Management (DRM) techniques. I would like to start my research by doing a survey among expert and professionals in the IT sector.
As part of this work, I have developed a questionnaire whose purpose is collecting feedback in order to come up with an objective assessment of the market where such software for protecting digital assets could be deployed.
If you would be so kind to help me in doing my thesis, I will be happy to share with you the results of the survey by sending you the final report (which will be anonymous and respectful of your privacy). You can find the questionnaire online at the following link:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Hqd7dR8baumIgsg_2fpmjLQA_3d_3d
Thank you very much in advance for your kind help and your time.
Best regards,
Elena

Comment from mactransfer
Time: January 26, 2010, 6:14 pm

Yes, DRM is always the trouble for me. I can’t copy it to what I want. I hate DRM. GET rid of them out of my music.

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