Mr. Jobs and DRM iTunes - How to Remove DRM from iTunes Songs

Many people would believe that Steve Jobs is a legacy. Because of Steve Jobs and iTunes, we listen to music in the 21st century in a profoundly different way than we did in the 20th century. You can download the music you want and love in huge libraries, access quickly to millions of songs. Yes, that's iTunes.

The creation of iTunes in January 2001, and later that year the release of the iPod, made organizing music, making playlists, and happy random accidents a listening joy. You can put together nearly every All Songs Considered episode using iTunes, and stream your music wirelessly from your computer to your stereo. You drive around and listen to much of your music on an iPod or iPhone and rate the songs your hear using Apple's software. See, how much Jobs and iTunes changes you.

iTunes DRM

While, on the other hand, Steve Jobs has a legion of haters. Most "casual users" find it easier to buy individual songs, load 'em up and play in shuffle mode, just because of the DRM (Digital Right Management). The purchased iTunes songs are all protected by the DRM, which will only allows you play your iTunes songs on 5 Apple devices, if you want to transfer your purchased iTunes songs to a smartphone, an MP3 player, lol, you will get much tings to do.

How to remove DRM and convert iTunes songs to mp3?

The tranditional way to remove the DRM is burn your purchased iTunes songs to a CD, then you can open the CD in iTunes and the Convert Selection to MP3 will do exactly what you want.
While a smarter way, which is where software can help. A "virtual CD drive" such as NoteBurner or CD Emulator can simulate a real CD burner, eliminating the need for real CD-R discs. The Windows operating system will treat the virtual drive just like a real one, so you can tell your CD burning software to access the virtual drive by it's own drive letter

And NoteBurner iTunes to MP3 Converter has been used and praised by numerous users around the world as an ideal solution for converting iTunes music to MP3, WMA or WAV format on computer with Virtual CD-RW drive. It is a protected audio and music converter tool designed for virtually burning.

NoteBurner Audio Converter is well known for its magic fast converting speed and its capability of converting DRM protected audio to MP3, WMA and WAV, especially convert M4P to MP3.

How to convert iTunes to mp3 with Noteburner:

Step1. Download and lanuch Noteburner, choose target format as MP3 for your songs, and set output folder for storing the convert iTunes music

Step 2. Create playlist to contain songs for converting to MP3(One playlist is recommended to contain no more than 74 minutes songs)

Step 3. Choose NoteBurner as CD burner, and then burn the playlist

Step 4. Get the MP3 files: The converted playlist and songs will show up on the main window of NoteBurner.

If you are a Windows user, you can refer to our Mac iTunes to mp3 converter.

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