Daily Tip 7:How To: Remove / Strip DRM off iTunes Music Tutorial
September 23rd, 2008 | Written by Andrew | 4,034 views | Published in DIY, Daily Tip, Hacks, How To's | 3 Comments
The tutorial shown below is for users who is annoyed by iTunes DRM and wants to strip it off because they want to play it in other devices, use it as background music in a home video, or anything else that DRM limits it to do. Many people know you strip off the DRM of iTunes music by simply burning the song to a CD, and ripping it back over, losing very little quality (if settings are correct). This method does the same exact thing but you will not need a CD-RW disc, a CD ROM drive, or even need to burn anything! It’s that simple. Let’s show you how to perform this.
We are going to be using a program called TuneClone. TuneClone is basically a program that acts as a virtual CD drive that allows you “burn” MP3 from iTunes and “rip” it. TuneClone “lies” to your computer saying that you have a CD-RW drive that it will burn to (like Alchohol 120%).
Step 1
-Download TuneClone from http://www.tuneclone.com and install it.
It is fully compatible with Windows XP and Vista. A virtual CD Burner will be installed. This virtual CD-RW will be used to convert music files.
Step 2
Set the default CD Burner to TuneClone CD-RW at iTunes.
Click menu Edit, select menu item Preferences…, and then select Advanced Tab. In order to keep the artist and title information of the music, the Include CD Text option should be checked.
Step 3
Create a playlist, and then add the files you want to convert into the playlist.
Step 4
Click Burn Disc button at the bottom right of the main screen of iTunes.
While the burning gets started, TuneClone will automatically convert the music file to either MP3, WMA, or WMV.
The most important step is to choose the cd burner. Then the software can convert the music files automatically. This is the easiest way to strip / remove DRM off iTunes music for personal use!
If you have any questions, please, don’t hesistate to post on the forums in this thread or post a comment here for any suggestions, or help!
Thanks: http://itunesm4ptomp3.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/remove-itunes-drm-windows-mac/
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January 1st, 2009 at 7:06 pm (#)
The trouble is that this is lossy. Any iTunes track or MP3 has already lost information in two ways: the first time through digital sampling, and the second time through audio compression. Uncompressing and recompressing the track to remove DRM degrades an already degraded song further: strike three!
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January 6th, 2009 at 8:06 pm (#)
Well, you can either do the CD method, or today, Apple announced that you can un DRM all your songs for 30 cents a pop.
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January 16th, 2009 at 2:05 pm (#)
Nice try but tuneclone isn’t freeware and the trial version limits one to a 3 minute song length. Didn’t bother to check what it costs and don’t care. Tired of throwing away money for programs that don’t do what I want. If the trial would do it, I’d buy it. I know that the author is just trying to make money and protect against theft. (Given the nature of this product, that is a bit ironic.) As I said, it’s my money though and I’ve been burned too many times by paying for a product that just didn’t do what I wanted it to do. Thanks anyway.
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