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Tuesday, July 3. 2007

Remove DRM From Music Files The Easy Way

You may have read that there are some digital songs being sold online these days that are already DRM free. While this may be true, it only applies to the products from a specific music label that agreed to remove DRM from their music. This may leave you in a dilemma especially if you like to transfer music across several types of digital music players. Certainly not all the music you like will come from the label that is DRM-free.

To date, there really is no easy way to remove DRM, but it can be done. It just takes a little effort, the right tools and some creativity. For the tech-savvy, the process has probably been simplified down to a science with each step being achieved using the appropriate tools. For those who may have a little harder time understanding technical stuff but wish to enjoy their music across different platforms, the process can be confusing resulting in some resources being wasted along the way. Thankfully there are "all-in-one" programs out there that can help.

As a brief introduction to DRM, it stands for Digital Rights Management. DRM is a set of restrictions placed on music and also video files so that their usage can be restricted by a third party. These third parties are basically the recording companies or movie studios or some other entities that hold the legal copyright to the songs or movies. DRM typically restricts the number of times a media file can be copied or the number of computers it can be used on.

These DRM protected songs or movies are purchased through online outlets like iTunes, Napster and very soon, Amazon.com.

One of the unique features of Apple's iTunes is that music purchased from them can be burned onto CD format. This is precisely one of the most popular ways of removing DRM--burn the purchased song onto CD format, extract the song from the CD and re-encode to some other format which is DRM-free such as mp3 or ogg vorbis. However this method requires special ripping software and a few other tedious steps.

As we mentioned above, there "all-in-one" solutions that can help reduce the troubles involved in removing DRM. One of these tools is called RS Audials Complete. RS Audials Complete legally removes copy protection from the DRM protected WMA and MP4 music files that you may have purchased from the online music vendors. It does so by using a technology that records the music while they are being played and then saving the new audio files as mp3, WMA, ogg vorbis or WAV. RS Audials Complete is quite versatile in that it not only can strip DRM from music files but from video files too.

Aside from legally removing DRM restrictions, here are a few other features of RS Audials Complete:

searches over 14.000 web radio stations for specific songs that you may be looking for and records them as mp3 files;

not just delivers free MP3 music but also thousands podcasts that is delivered from an integrated database which is always up to date;

automatically delivers to you missing ID3-tags for your tracks as well as album covers and lyrics;

synchronizes your tracks with mobile devices like the iPod, mp3 and other multimedia players;

cd burning.

The RS Audials Complete is available in a demo version which you are free to try before you decide to purchase.

For the music lover who can't be bothered by a lengthy process of converting DRM protected music files, the RS Audials Complete should be worth a look.

Posted by in GOoseneck at 10:10 | Comment (1)

Defined tags for this entry: digital music, digital music players, drm, lossy compression, mp3, music, remove drm protection, rs-audials, songs

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Ann SAYS,

Wednesday, September 26. 2007 at 03:28 (Reply)

I have an iPod and can`t remove files on it. So I find MelodyCan converter and try on. It is easy to use. I like it.

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