How to Remove DRM Protection From ITunes Music on a Mac

DRM protection on music bought from ITunes is designed to prevent people sharing that music with all their friends, relatives, neighbours etc... However it also, inadvertantly, prevents some legitimate users to place the music on their DRM incompatible MP3 players. This Instructable will outline one method of removing the DRM protection using a Burn>Rip automating program and a CD-RW.

Step 1 You Will Need...

Required for this Instructable are:

1) DRM Dumpster: Buy here for $24.95

2) 1x CD-RW: A high quality model is recommended.

Comments

[Solderguy]

Using Limewire would make Itunes completely useless.

[netbuddy]

Using limewire you need yur head searching, that program like bearshare and others that use Gnutella networks is spyware riddled. If you want to make your PC useless than please go ahead and install it. The number of friends PC's that have been wrecked by this software, I lose count and all have been converted to more safer forms of peer to peer.

[pyroarchist]

ever hear of frostwire?? its the same thing as LimeWire Pro with the protection and faster speed along with filters but its free

[darkclaw42]

uTorrent is so much better then any of the above. Its P2P, but others get to rate and comment on the full albums you can get. Entire discography's even. Gives you a file list as well, so you know what your downloading.

Of course if I knew how to remove the DRM I would'nt have to redownload them again. :\ Now I know.

[Solderguy]

Well I don't use Limewire because I know it's a virus breeding ground and any other p2p file sharing programs. I use Clickster, which is nothing like Limewire, in that it's like an internet crawler that explores the internet searching only for mp3 files with the same name as the song you want. You should try it.

[netbuddy]

I use Google. If you understand that google is the original hackers tool for seeking out and obtaining files, you will not need any sofware other than your web browser and the URL for google. I recently demonstrated this to a friend who was gobsmacked when I told him he didn;t need to install a program to download songs, the internet has thousands of them and most are hidden from normal web viewing but google sees all. So a bit of the old search-a-roo and a tweak to the search criteria and I have a nice list of exactly waht I am looking for if it exists at all. If you must peer to peer, then you can do better with Bit Torrent (Original) from the Bit Torrent web site. If you need to use a searchable network then the emule network is reliable but slow. Close behind, Shareaza although I do not rate the new style and system and have ceased using it because of it. Quickest way to kill off a client is to change the familiar to something alien and unuseable.

[Marble of Doom]

That's my mp3 player!

[tinker000]

An easier way would be to use itunes to burn a WAV cd with the wanted songs on it, Then to rip them into itunes as mp3s.

[Padlock]

I'm no expert, but isn't this illegal?

[lowtherz]

In all honesty, I'm not sure of the legality of this procedure but according to the site I downloaded it from it is legal....apparently. The procedure itself seems legal to me, there are any number of reasons why you may need, without meaning to remove the DRM, to rip music back off a CD. The result? Well, as long as you don't start uploading the files all over the internet, it is not illegal to the best of my knowledge. I apologise in advance if someone with a far greater knowledge of this subject than me corrects me but I honestly believe this process to legal...ish.

[wozzy]

Or just download M4PConverter - http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/26976/m4pconverterl