How to remove DRM from your iTunes Songs (perhaps legally)

DRM is a headache which limits where you can play your songs and how many often can you play them. Here is one way to hack through the encryption and perhaps legally with iTunes.

  1. Create a separate new playlist with all the songs you’d like to rip.
  2. Use your software’s Burn Disc option to copy the music to audio-CD format.
  3. Now, rename the original playlist to save your original songs.
  4. Insert the newly burned Audio-CD and import to copy the songs back to iTunes.

You should get your DRM free songs now.

Disclaimer: I have not tried this myself and have not come across a situation where I’ve to do it yet.

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 12th, 2007 at 5:30 pm and is filed under Tips-Tricks. You can follow any comments to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site.

  • wes

    that’s stupid, of course that works. but what happens when you want to copy thousands of songs???

  • jay

    I like this. I purchase it anyway. Instead of CD R+W, I’ll burn a permanant copy for an actual backup. Lord knows, these things aint stable.

  • Randy

    trying to get rid of drm from 25 purchased songs…guess I am doing something wrong..I burned 25 protected songs to a disk..(audio) then I erased the protected songs from my music library.. I put in disk an imported. ! by AAC and they come back in protected again, then I erased them and imported via MP#3, they came in again protected (using latest software on a new iMac…) what am I doing wrong…