Remove DRM from iTunes

How to Remove DRM Protection from iTunes for Free

 This is a guide on how to remove DRM protection from iTunes movies for free, so you can burn iTunes videos to DVD or convert iTunes videos to other video/audio format files.

iTunes is definately the undisputed champion of medias downloading services. The annoying part  is that iTunes purchased songs and videos will not run on any other media player except for Apple products due to digital rights managements (DRM) which limit usages of devices or files.

Part 1, Remove DRM protection from iTunes Music using iTunes + CD-R/W

Probably the most popular method for removing DRM-protection from purchased songs is to burn the files to a CD-R/W then import them back into youriTunes library. This is a free method guaranteed to free you of DRM madness.

1. Create an iTunes playlist with your purchased songs.
2. Insert a blank CD-R or a CD-RW. CD-RW is highly recommended if your playlist has hundreds of songs
3. Burn the playlist to disk.
4. Re-import the songs after a successful burn.
5. Delete the original purchased tracks.

Part 2, Remove DRM from iTunes Music/Videos using DRM Removal

This DRM Removal is fully compatible with Windows Vista 32bit/64bit and Windows 7. It allows to remove DRM protection from iTunes M4V/M4P, Windows Media Files (WMV), Amazon DRM protected files, BBC iplayer files and more. And converting videos to virtually format of your choice. To start out, download this free trial version:

• Free Download

How to Remove iTunes DRM Protection

To remove DRM protection from your iTunes protected files, you only need:

1. Import DRM protected iTunes videos/songs to the DRM Removal program.
2. Select M4V as outpur format or any other format you like.
3. Hit Convert to start revoming DRM protection from iTunes videos/songs.

Part 3, Remove DRM protection from iTunes using freeware

1. Remove DRM protection from iTunes music and videos for free on PC.

QTFairUse. It enables you to Remove DRM protection from iTunes music and videos for free.

QTFairUse(.) for iTunes will allow you to convert protected m4p format files purchased in the iTunes Music Store to unprotected m4a files, playable everywhere. It  supports fully automated conversion of all protected tracks in your iTunes library. It will confirm whether you want to convert all the files in your library, then press 'y' and Enter. After that, you will be asked whether you wanna skip those converted tracks (e.g. from the previuos run). Press 'n' and Enter to owerwrite them, 'y' and Enter to skip. After that, the script will begin conversion of all files in the library. Converted files will have m4a extension and will reside next to their m4p counterparts. To stop the conversion in process, press Ctrl-C in the console window. You can also close iTunes.

If you want to convert specific m4p files, pass their filenames as the commandline parameter. You can do that by e.g. dragging and dropping the files on QTFairUse6.exe. QTFairUse6 will convert them and exit. You can find converted files next to the originals, with m4a extension.

MyFairTunes. It can Remove DRM protection from iTunes music for free.

2. Remove DRM protection from iTunes music for free on Mac.

The software I introduce:

FairGame It is a freeware to Remove DRM protection from iTunes music on Mac OS X.
FairGame(http://seidai.50webs.com/Seidai%20Software_files/FairGame.zip)will convert the songs you bought on the iTunes Store to an unprotected format (using iTunes default encoder) and keep all the original metadata, lyrics and artwork. FairGame doesn't do lossless DRM stripping. It re-encodes protected AAC files purchased in iTMS into unprotected AAC file using Apple's iMovie software.

What you MUST DO (only once) to get FairGame to work:
enable "Access for assistive devices" in the "Universal Access" system preference
select "Place clip in Movie Timeline" in the "Import" preference of iMovie HD
Then you can simply:
select some songs in iTunes
click on the "Process songs" button
then don't touch anything and wait until it's done...(FairGame is scripting iMovie's interface to process the songs, don't interfere)

Tips:
If you want to burn the itunes video to DVD or import DVD to iTunes on Mac, Just follow these steps:

1. Get the iTunes video to computer. You need to transfer the videos to iPod or iPhone and then use free iPod manager to get the videos from iPod or iPhone to computer.
   Here is a tutorial: How to get videos from iPod and iPhone to Mac and PC for free?
2. Use freeware to burn the iTunes video to DVD. Here is a tutorials:
   How to burn iTunes videos to DVD on Mac
3. How to import DVD to iTunes on Mac

Part 4, Remove DRM protection from iTunes Music using Aimersoft DRM Removal

Aimersoft DRM Removal is a powerful yet easy to use tool to remove DRM from iTunes music. It takes a few simple clicks to get the task done. All you need to do is to import the file(s) to the program and choose the output profile. Aimersoft DRM removal will take care of the rest for you. With Aimersoft DRM Removal, you can output iTunes music to almost any audio file as you like: MP3, AAC, etc.

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