What is DRM?

Digital rights management (DRM) refers to a range of access control technologies that limit usage of digital media or devices. It has been used by some big companies to protect their intellectual property rights, such as Sony, Apple Inc., Microsoft and so on. Songs bought from different companies will have different DRM protection that can restrict you from playing songs on incompatible players. For example, if you downloaded a protected music from Microsoft Zune that has windows DRM, you can only play the music on Zune player. If you accidently bought a PSP, you just can't play the music on your new player. Also, DRM restrict the usage of computers, so you just can't share you DRM-laden music with your friends. There comes the headache!

How to remove DRM from protected music?

So, you could try some methods or programs that remove DRM from protected music. This article presents you a easy way: using software, such as Aimerrsoft Music Converter to convert your protected files to DRM-free ones. This software is especially useful for alleviating compatibility issues.

Here is the step by step tutorial for the program:

1.Download Aimersoft Protected Music Converter  install and run it. Then, add protected music to it. You can either click 'ADD' button to insert the music you want to convert, or easily drag & drop the files into 'Getting started' table. This software supports batch conversion, so you can add several files at a time.

Now you should be able to see a list of music that you'd like to convert.
2.Choose the format you'd like to get. Click the setting button, There are a list of output formats ready for your choose. And if you don't know the formats, there is also guide info to show you the match hardware with the formats.

You also can change the output file location, or the output files will be located as default.

3.Last thing, click the start button, and the converting process is beginning. After converting, the music are DRM-ripped. You can view your converted music by press the browse button, or you can choose to turn off computer after conversion.

Thanks for viewing our program guide of removing DRM from music, and now, let's enjoy the clean and free music.

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