Lossy DRM removal software: SoundTaxi, Tunebite, NoteBurner, freeTunes, MuvAudio

What lossy DRM removal software you consider the best? Even if you have tried a single DRM removal tool like Soundtaxi (Platinum, Professional, Pro+VideoRip), Tunebite (Platinum, Premium), Daniusoft Digital Media Converter (WMA MP3 Converter, Digital Music Converter), MuvAudio, Note Burner, 5star freeTunes.

We would like to know your opinion about it. If you are a newbie your opinion is particularly important for us. By sharing your views you help making DRM removal tools better and help other users to choose better software!

The most popular DRM removal software at undrm.info are Soundtaxi and Tunebite. These DRM removal tools are proven by time and both have versions that can re-record DRM-protected video files as well as audio files.

In this article, I will discuss softwares that can remove DRM and convert DRM. DRM stands for digital rights management. It claims to protect digital media from piracy. However, DRM does nothing to stop copyright pirates. The main purpose of DRM is financial. It prevents lawful user from making back up of purchased music and enjoying music on third-party players. It may also cause some security issues, because DRM controls your computer, automatically connects to Internet.

I prefer to remove DRM from my purchased music so I can enjoy my music without any restriction. Here are some software that can help you remove DRM and convert DRM:


Daniusoft Digital Media Converter



I’m using this application to convert DRM files now. It can perform all types of conversion including video to video, video to audio, and audio to audio. It is the only program I have tried that can remove DRM without recording and the conversion speed is pretty good. Recommend.


Tunebite



I used to use Tunebite before I found Digital Media Converter. Supporting many formats is its advantage. Its disadvantage is it can only remove DRM by recording, so the conversion speed is slow and I can’t do anything else on my computer during the conversion process.


Soundtaxi



Another software that uses the recording method. I think there is a bug in SoundTaxi. It starts converting even though the convert button is not clicked.


Note Burner



NoteBurner acts as a virtual CD burner. It adds an icon to the system tray and can only be used within a player.

In summary, SoundTaxi and Tunebite work by recording while Digital Music Converter directly converts. The results of this difference are Digital Music Converter needs less time to finish converting and you can perform other tasks when using it. Tunebite and Digital Music Converter both support many formats, however, Tunebite needs lame_enc.dll to support mp3 or it can't work with mp3.

Ok, it’s done.( maybe it’s too short, I’m sorry I didn’t have much time to modify or perfect it which only could make you to get a simple image of them ). For personal opinion, I like Digital Music Converter a bit more. But whatever, hope you can have much more fun with them.

Well, Anybody who has any advice or comment with these tools or if you got some more efficient software,please let me know, I want it make some effect. Thx

Originally Posted by CrayDeng

Daniusoft Digital Media Converter... is the only program I have tried that can remove DRM without recording and the conversion speed is pretty good.

Are the any proofs that it doesn't record when removing DRM? If yes, it would be interesting to know how it really works!

I don't really trust Aimersoft, Daniusoft and other Wondershare brands, becase they are promoted by spam.

DRM is still a major problem in the online music and video industry. I hate DRM, and I’m sure 99% of the people reading this agree with me - DRM sucks. The only benefit is for the record companies, so that their music cannot be shared on file sharing/BitTorrent websites. It brings the user absolutely no benefits, and many drawbacks - including limiting what you can do with your music/video in almost every way possible. Whether it’s putting the file on your mobile phone, or wanting to use it on more than five computers.

I know there are so many downloading software which have DRM tech like Napster, Rhapsody, limewire, iTunes, bearshare.......
So I don't like DRM at all, it's so frustrating when can't do what you want with the music you bought from internet,like transfer and share it with my friends or convert it to other formats which can be played by other devices. And it's not easy to find a good converter to help me with those problem.

What is DRM? Why do we remove DRM WMA?
Have you ever downloaded music from Windows Media Player, iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster, Spiral Frog? These popular music download programs among the music fans always come with a disgusting word - "DRM".

DRM (Digital Rights Management) - The anti consumer copy protection that prevents you from using music in a way that suits you. For example, if a WMA you downloaded from WMP(windows media player) that has DRM, you can only play it back on a compatible device, so if every piece of music had DRM on it you would need to buy the same track on CD to listen in your CD player or car, as an iTunes download to play on your iPod, as a ms store download to play on your Zune etc, but since you paid for it once you shouldn’t be forced to pay for it again and again and again, remove the DRM and you can play it on your phone, iPod, Zune, PSP, CD player, pc, and anything else that you can listen to music on.

How to remove DRM from WMA?
I got a few methods listed below:

• Re-record
  One of the most common and simple technology is recording the DRM protected WMA then use an ordinary converter to convert the recorded and unprotected files. Because this technology is easy to realized and easy to support more DRM formats besides protected WMA it is welcomed by most of the DRM converters like the Soundtaxi, etc.
  But there are some disadvantages for those programs.
  a. The conversion speed won’t get much improvement due to the long recording process.
  b. Much audio and video quality could be lost during the recording process.
  Luckily DRM removal software like SoundTaxi and Tunebite works much faster than in real time.
• Burn and rip
  Actually, there is a common free method to remove DRM WMA with 2 steps:
  Step 1 Burn the protected WMA to a CD
  Step 2 Rip them off to your computer, then the DRM should be removed from the WMA files.
  But it’s not very convenient and may wear out your CR-ROM. And windows media player can only burn and rip the WMA (or you will need DVD copy and DVD ripper for other formats).
  However you can use a virtual CD burner and ripper Note Burner. It works much faster and you don't even need a real CD/DVD drive.
  
• Hook
  Hook is another new and more complicated technology which can be used to remove the DRM from protected WMA files. Compared to recording process, these sorts of programs have much higher conversion speed, but it’s hard to make it support some DRM formats with new and lofty encrpytion tachniques.
  And as far as I know, Daniusoft was one of its supporters. Daniusoft Digital Media Converter can remove DRM from protected WMA files, it also supports other formats conversion and audio extraction from WMV.

Ok, Hope you can get some useful resources from this article (How to remove DRM from protected WMA should not annoy you anymore).
If you have any suggestion or want to do some modification please feel free to contact me.
Remove DRM from your favorite music to release you music life.
Have Fun.

You may have purchased many songs from iTunes online store. It will be ok if you just play it on your computers with iTunes, or on your iPod. However, you may need to insert the music in a Power Point presentation, listen it on your mp3 player or set it as background music of your website or other legal personal usage, and you will find you are not allowed.

All the iTunes music files are m4p format, it’s restricted. Is there any way to remove this DRM protection and convert the iTunes songs to widely used mp3 files?

There are some ways that can achieve your goal.

• In iTunes, these DRM protected songs can’t be burned to mp3 CD disc, however, you can burn them to audio CD, and then use an audio ripper to rip the tracks from the CD. It may be a waste of CD discs when you have plenty of songs which need to be converted.
  
• Use the program named Tunebite (Soundtaxi, MuvAudio ). It records the sounds with a real audio device, however, you need to import lame.exe to convert the files to mp3 files.
  
• Use the program named Note Burner. Noteburner will install a virtual CD burner on your computer, what you need to do is just to set it as default CD burner in iTunes. Open iTunes, operate by Edit --> Preference --> Advanced --> burning, and set Noteburn Virtual CD_RW as your CD burner. If you want to preserve the tags information, including artist, song title, album name, track number etc, you need to check the option “include CD text”. Not only m4p files can be converted, but also audio book in m4p format or AA format can be converted to mp3 in iTunes with Noteburner virtual CD burner.
  So you can finish all the jobs as the first method within this software and save many CD discs.
  
  Noteburner can also remove the DRM protection of wma audio files. In this case, you need to use Noteburner with Windows media player, and what you need to do is the same as in iTunes.
  
• Use the program named Notecable. This program can also convert DRM protected iTunes songs and wma audio files. It works as a virtual sound card recording audio streams in background. The advantage of Notecable is that it’s very easy to use. Click “add” button to add the files you need to convert, click “settings” button to choose output format, bitrate, output folder, then click “convert” button to start conversion. If you want convert at a faster speed, you can click settings button and adjust the “convert acceleration” bar.

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Just a note on FairUse4WM and additional options... it is a solid program that does exactly what it says it does. The major advantage is its speed. I also use Daniusoft's Digital Media Converter Pro and this is an extremely solid tool as well and well worth the $39.95 I paid (the non-Pro version is $34.95) but takes quite a while to complete a single video - it doesn't keep you from continuing to work like some of the Streamers do (Tunebite, Soundtaxi, etc.).

I have also used these Streamers and they are OK as far as stripping and conversion goes but can be a bit touchy at times...so far no issues with FU4WM and DaniuSoft and I have stripped and converted over 20 videos so far with zero errors and very clean results when played from my iPod to my TV.

Well that's all I've got. Good luck and I hope your frustrations are at least somewhat minimized by this information.

Daniusoft Media Converter Pro is a safe and legal product to help people Remove DRM from WMV.

Enjoy WMV music as you please! - Remove DRM from WMV

"I purchased and downloaded some WMV videos from online music store but they are all DRM (Digital Rights Management) protected, which means that I can not enjoy them on my MP3 player and even play them using Windows Media Player on my PC. Could you please tell me there is a way to remove DRM from WMV? Any help will be greatly appreciated."

Daniusoft Media Converter Pro is a safe and legal product to help people remove DRM from WMV. With this great DRM remover, you can easily remove DRM from WMV because it owns optimized DRM removal engine, like removing DRM from WMV multiple files all at once.

The outstanding feature of this DRM remover is that it supports most DRM video Audio files: WMV, M4A, M4B, M4P, M4V, ASF and HD video: M2TS, TP, TRP, TS, AVI... and other popular common media. With this excellent DRM free removal software, you can strip DRM license protection from WMV and enjoy all music and movies on any digital players: iPod, Creative Zen, Zune, iPhone, PSP, Archos, Blackberry Storm, Cell Phone, etc. without restriction.

Daniusoft Media Converter Pro is a ideal tool to remove DRM from WMV. In this paragraph below will guide you to remove DRM from WMV with Daniusoft Media Converter Pro. You can download Daniusoft Media Converter Pro first and install it to your computer.
Step 1. Run Daniusoft Media Converter Pro.

You should download Daniusoft Media Converter Pro, install it correctly on your PCs and run it so you can enter the main interface of Daniusoft Media Converter Pro.



Step 2. Choose WMV files from which you want to remove DRM.

You can open Daniusoft Media Converter Pro by clicking , and you are allowed to import WMV to be removed DRM from to this software. Or click , you are allowed to add a folder or import video from the appointed folder through DRM Finder.

Note: If you have not set a folder for DRM Finder before you click DRM Finder to import the DRM files, there will be a popup message to inform you of setting a Smart Import folder for DRM files first on Option. Besides, you are allowed to edit the imported files by right clicking on one of the file in the file list to open the right-click menu:

Add Files: Click to add supported media files.

Remove: Click to delete the selected file.

Clear: Click to delete all the added files.

Tip: You can drag the files upwards or downwards and release to move them on the list.

Step 3. Preview WMV you choose to remove DRM from.

After importing WMV, you can preview them in the preview pane on the right of the main interface. It works as a common player. The name of the file being previewed will be shown on the top of the preview pane automatically.

Step 4. Edit WMV to be removed DRM from.

Edit WMV as you want, such as sample rates, channel, encoder and bit rate. Besides, you can customize the audio encoding settings and save them as your own profile. After you have chosen the encoding options, just click the Save as... button and name your profile, and then the profile will be saved in the User Defined list. You can use the customized profile next time by selecting it from the list.

Set WMV files, such as sample rates, channel, encoder and bit rate.



Click the Save as... button and name your profile, and then the profile will be saved in the User Defined list.




Step 5. Remove DRM from WMV.

Press the button to start to remove DRM from WMV, and you can choose the destination for the final WMV files as shown below in the black region.

Tip: you can see the conversion progress from the file list window when converting the file.



Tip: you can click " Turn off computer after conversion" to let the software stop after removing DRM from WMV.