How do I remove DRM from Apple music for free?

By Sarah ConnorUpdated on July 27, 2022

If you want to keep Apple Music forever or listen to Apple Music songs on any devices freely, remove DRM from Apple Music is the best way. This article tells you the benefits after removing Apple Music DRM and how to remove DRM from Apple Music with 4 ways. After that, you can play Apple Music on any device offline without limits.

Q: “Songs drm protected on Apple Music? I plan to cancel my Apple Music membership, I have added more then 200+ songs to my offline library on iPhone, I know that once my membership is canceled, all downloaded and added songs will lost, how to remove drm from downloaded apple music? Is it possible to keep Apple Music songs forever after I unsubscribe Apple Music?” – Asked by Roger Nana on Apple discussions.

With Apple Music subscription, you can access millions of songs, curated radio and playlists, video content, and music recommendations, all in the Apple Music app. You can also access all of your content across other devices, as long as you’re signed in to Apple Music with the same Apple ID. Do you have subscribed to Apple Music and you wonder how to remove DRM from Apple Music and play them on MP3 player. In this situation, you need to use an Apple Music DRM Removal tool to remove DRM from Apple Music and convert Apple Music songs to DRM-free audio format – MP3.

• Part 1. Remove Apple Music Track’s DRM and Convert Songs to MP3
• Part 2. Convert DRM Protected Apple Music Songs to MP3 Losslessly(recommended)
• Part 3. Remove Apple Music DRM by Recording and Saving as MP3
• Part 4. Why We Need to Remove DRM from Apple Music
• Part 5. Remove DRM from iTunes Music by Free Software
• Part 6. Tips to Remove DRM from iTunes Purchased/Reneted Movies
• Part 7. Why UkeySoft Apple Music Converter Can Remove DRM from Apple Music?

FairPlay DRM Protection and Apple Music Tracks

Because the Apple Music songs downloaded from iTunes or Apple Music app are protected with FairPlay DRM Protection that is utilized by Apple Inc. It not allow users transfer, copy or listening on unauthorized devices. There are Apple Music users looking for solutions on how to remove drm protection on iPhone and Android phone? How to remove DRM from Apple Music or download Apple Music playlists for offline playback?

Apple Music subscribers can choose to download any songs from the world’s largest music catalog on Apple Music available devices directly. For Apple Music Members, you can download and play Apple Music only on authorized device, such as iPhone 13, iPhone 12, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, and iPhone X/8/7/6S/6/6 Plus, iPad/iPod touch, Android devices such as Samsung Galaxy Fold/S10/S20/S21, Samsung Galaxy S9/S8/S7/Note 9/Note 8, Huawei Mate X, Mate 20/10, Huawei P40/P40 Pro/ P30/P30 Pro, Huawei P20/P20 Pro, Sony, Google Pixel, Motorola, LG, OnePlus, ZET, Xiaomi, Oppo, Redmi, etc,. But we can’t keep Apple Music songs playable on mobile phone forever if you unsubscribe from Apple Music, we can’t download Apple Music on portable player such as MP3 player, Sony Walkman, iPod nano/class/shuffle for offline listening as there is no Apple Music app supported for it. However, how to play Apple Music on other unauthorized device such as iPod shuffle, iPod nano, iPhod Class, Android phones/tablets, PS4, PS3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, TV, Roku, etc,? How to keep Apple Music songs forever after you unsubscribe Apple Music? The most important thing you need to do is removing Apple Music DRM and convert Apple Music to MP3.

Is it legal to Remove DRM from Apple Music?

Some Apple Music users may search in Google to ask “is it legal to remove drm from apple music?” Actually, it is illegal to unlock DRM from Apple Music in some countries. But, it is legal if used only for personal entertainment, for example: You can play Apple Music on MP3 player when you travelling, Running, doing yoga, keeping fitnessand, etc,. An it’s not allowed for using on commercial activities. However, DRM is annoying. If only we could get rid of Apple Music track’s DRM easily! … With it, you can listen to Apple Music on any MP3 player, iPod classic/shuffle/nano, Android tablets/ phones, PSP, Kindle Fire, Android smart TV, Roku and other mobile phone freely.

Part 1. Remove DRM from Apple Music Songs

UkeySoft Apple Music Converter, which is a professional Apple Music DRM removal and iTunes DRM Audio Converter, you can easily remove Apple Music track’s DRM protection and convert Apple Music M4P songs to MP3, M4A, AAC, or other popular audio formats for playback in anywhere. All your songs, albums, playlists can be exported from Apple Music to more compatible formats. In addition, it also supports converting the iTunes purchased music and audiobooks, as well as Audible AA/AAX audiobooks. Moreover, this Apple Music Converter is famous for converting Apple Music in 16X speed, you can easily get a 4-minutes song from iTunes converted to MP3, M4A, FLAC, or WAV format audio in less than 30 seconds, it keeps original audio quality and ID3 tags after conversion. After removing the DRM from Apple Music, you can offline playing the converted Apple Music songs without iTunes or Apple Music app, or you can play them on any unauthorized device, like iPod, iPhone, Android device, PSP, MP3 players, Sony Walkman and more.

How to Remove DRM from Apple Music Songs and Playlists

Step 1. Run UkeySoft Apple Music Converter
To begin with, run UkeySoft Apple Music Converter on computer, log in your Apple ID by clicking red “Sign In” icon on the top right corner.

Step 2. Set Output Format
Tap the Gear icon on the top right corner to set the output settings for output music files. Please select MP3 format since it is the most widely used format that are compatible with most device, you can set other parameters if you need, like output folder, output quality.

Step 3. Add Apple Music
Open any Apple Music track, album or playlist, then click the red “Add +” icon in the right side to add desire songs to download list in program.

Once you open any track, album, playlist, all songs in it will be default selected. Remove any music contents that you don’t need.

Step 4. Remove DRM and Convert Apple Music to MP3
Finally, click “Convert” button to begin to remove DRM from selected Apple Music songs, and convert them to MP3 files.

Step 5. Check Output Music

Click the “History” icon to check the output MP3 Apple Music files. You can also play them with built-in music player in program by clicking Play icon.

After that, you can enjoy Apple Music on any compatible mobile device, such as iPod, iPhone, Android devices, PSP, MP3 player, car player or burn them to a CD, etc,.

Read related: Easy Way to Remove DRM from Spotify Music

Part 2. Convert DRM Protected Apple Music Songs to MP3 Losslessly

Except using UkeySoft Apple Music Converter to remove Apple Music track’s DRM, there is an more powerful tool for you to remove DRM protection from Apple Music songs and iTunes songs. You can quickly to convert Apple Music and iTunes M4P songs to MP3, M4A, FLAC, etc,. We do highly recommend TunesBank Apple Music Converter to you, which supports up to 10X conversion speeds on macOS and 10X conversion on Windows 10/8.1/8/7.

TunesBank Apple Music Converter is a professional DRM audio converter, known as Apple Music DRM Removal, iTunes M4P Converter, iTunes audio extractor and audiobook DRM removal. It can not only help you remove DRM from Apple Music, but also enables you remove DRM from purchased iTunes music, iTunes audiobooks, and Audible audiobooks. Moreover, the Mac version of this app supports up to 10X conversion speeds, you can convert Apple Music M4P songs to MP3/M4A/FLAC in 10X faster speed on Mac, and it fully compatible with the latest macOS Big Sur.

Key Features of TunesBank Apple Music DRM Removal

–Remove DRM from Apple Music, iTunes songs/audiobooks and Audible audibooks.
-Convert Apple Music to MP3, M4A, FLAC, AU, AIFF, AAC, AC3, etc,.
-Convert iTunes and Audible audiobooks to MP3, M4A, FLAC, AU, AIFF, AAC, AC3, etc,.
-Remove DRM from iTunes videos and convert M4V to MP3, M4A, etc,.
-Allows adding most songs or videos to the “Converting” list during converting process.
-Convert as many songs as you like in batch.

Here’s how to remove DRM from Apple Music songs, playlist and albums using TunesBank Apple Music Converter, so you can offline enjoy Apple Music anywhere you want.

How to Remove DRM From Apple Music with TunesBank Apple Music Converter

Step 1Launch TunesBank and Select Apple Music Songs

Launch TunesBank Apple Music Converter on your computer and you will see the iTunes will run automatically. All iTunes files will be loaded into the converter and then you can browse all your Apple Music songs and purchased iTunes music. Besides, you can also download the music videos from iTunes to computer to store them locally, the converter also can help you extract audio from iTunes videos.

Step 2Select Output Audio Format and Parameters

Go to the bottom of the main interface, you can set the output audio format, to achieve Apple Music to MP3, you can set MP3 as output audio format, you also can select other output audio format, such as M4A, AAC, FLAC, AIFF, AU, AC3, etc,.

You also can adjust the bit rate, sample, codec, and channel.

Step 3Remove DRM from Apple Music

Once all the setting is done, you can click the “Convert” button start to remove Apple Music DRM and convert DRM-ed Apple Music M4P files and Apple Music AAC audio files to MP3, M4A, FLAC ,etc,.

Step 4View Converted Apple Music Songs

After the conversion, click “Finished” tab and click the “View Output File” button, you will browse all DRM-free Apple Music songs in the output folder.

As below screenshot, let’s comparing original Apple Music track and the converted Apple Music songs(.mp3 files).

Apple Music AAC Audio File VS Converted Apple Music Songs(MP3 Files)

Then you can save those converted Apple Music songs forever, and you don’t need to worry that your Apple Music songs becomes unplayable after after the subscription ends in the future. Besides, you can transfer the converted Apple Music songs to your MP3 player, mobile phone, car media player for listening freely.

More Features of Apple Music Converter

Automatically sync iTunes music, audiobooks and Apple Music track from iTunes Library
Just add Apple Music tracks, playlists or albums to iTunes Library. Apple Music converter will automatically load all your Apple Music tracks and playlists and show them on the interface. There is no need to download them if your internet connection is fast enough. Just 1-click batch convert Apple Music, iTunes M4P songs, Audiobooks and Audible Audiobooks to DRM free formats – MP3, M4A, AC3, AIFF, AU, FLAC, M4R and MKA.

Customize output profile settings
Apple Music removal allows you to customize Codec, Bitrate, Sample rate and Channels of the output file. Also you may save them as custom profile for future use.

Fast Conversion Speed
The conversion speed can be as fast as 16X and you are free to set it as you desired.

Search Function
The powerful search function enables you to quickly find Apple Music tracks you need according to song’s name, artist and album.

Customize file name format
Output filename can contain Title, Artist, Album, TrackID and DiskID, such as Artist – Album – Track – Title.mp3. Click Options on the menu bar to open Preferences and customize output filename format if you like. You can also preserve Audiobook chapter information to M4A output.

Save ID tags
ID tags such as song name, Artist name, Album, Album artist, Genre and Artwork will be saved to the output MP3 and M4A files.

Batch Apple Music tracks and iTunes M4P songs conversion
You can batch convert as many Apple Music tracks as you want at a time.

However, there is also another way you can get DRM free Apple Music which you can record Apple Music songs as MP3 and keep them playable on any devices, what you need is a Apple Music Recorder tool.

Part 3. Remove Apple Music DRM by Recording and Saving as MP3

Screen Recorder not only is a screen capturing tool, but also is an audio recording software, which can help you record any online streaming music, radio, audio call and more from system audio. You can turn on your iTunes along with your recorder, then using this audio recording function to record Apple Music songs instead of downloading them, after recording the stream music tracks, you can save the recorded song in MP3/WMA/AAC/M4A for easy playback as you like.

Step 1.Launch Screen Recording on your computer

First of all, please launching the Screen Recorder software on the computer.

In order to record Apple Music songs, please click the “Audio Recorder” button to enter the audio recording function.

Step 2.Turn on System Sound and Turn off Microphone Option

If you want to record Apple Music songs, please select “System Sound” and turn it On and turn Off the “Microphone” option. And then adjust the volume, simply dragging the volume bar from left to right.

Step 3.Set Audio Recording Output Format

When shifting to your audio recorder, you can click the “Settings” to set your record file formats and output folder, it can record Apple Music and other streaming music as MP3, WMA, M4A and ACC.

Step 4.Click on REC to record your Apple Music Songs

When getting ready, please turn on your iTunes to playing a Apple Music songs along with your recorder, click on REC button reading 3-2-1 to record your Apple Music with easily.

Step 5.Listening and Save the Recorded Audio/Music

After Apple Music recording is complete, you can playing the recording songs by click “Play” button. And if you are satisfied with the recording results, you can save the audio by clicking on “Save” button.

Now, the recorded Apple music saved onto the computer, you can find it on the recording library and rename the recorded songs you like.

Downoad the Screen Recorder for Windows or Mac and try to rip your Apple Music easily.

So far, you have learned about 2 ways to get DRM-free Apple Music by Apple Music converter and Screen Recorder tool. Owning these 2 userful recording/converting tools you can easy to keep Apple Music forever. Here, we recommend you use the Apple Music Converter program rather that Screen Recorder tool, why?

Screen Recorder Cons
* Compared to the original quality, the quality of the recording will decrease
* The effect will be worse and take longer time, if you have to record large numbers of Apple Music songs
* Recording Speed is slow
* Many advanced ID3 tagging features cannot be preserved

Apple Music Converter Pros
* Unlock DRM from Apple Music songs with high-efficient
* Convert the Apple Music songs and iTues M4P songs into plain MP3, M4A, FLAC, etc,.
* Up to 16x higher conversion speed.
* Guaranteed quality of output files.
* Batch convert as many Apple Music songs as you like.
* Keep original metadata to MP3, M4A audio files.
* Read and save music metadata, such as the song title, artist name, album name, genre or album artwork. You can also edit them as you like.
* Supports 8 output formats: MP3, M4A, AC3, AIFF, AU, FLAC, M4R and MKA
* Customize output music quality, bitrate, sample rate and number of channels.

Part 4. Why We Need to Remove Apple Music Track’s DRM Protection

Why we need to remove DRM from Apple Music and convert Apple Music songs to MP3? Why we need to convert Apple Music to DRM-free audio format like MP3, M4A, AC3, AIFF, AU, FLAC, M4R and MKA?

Because the Apple Music tracks are also under digital rights management (DRM) copy protection in M4P format, which not allow users copy or play Apple Music songs on unauthorized device, even you have purchase songs on Apple Music store(iTunes store), you don’t really own these songs, if you cancel Apple Music membership, all songs downloaded and added to the offline library can’t played.

Apple Music usrs Questions: how to keep Apple Music songs forever before your membership is canceled? How to listen to music after unsubscribing from Apple Music? How to copy Apple Music songs to MP3 players for listening offline? How to enjoy Apple Music on multiple devices at once without using a family plan? How to make Apple Music songs as iPhone ringtone? Or how to burn Apple Music to CD, etc,? The best way to keep Apple Music offline playable forever is removing DRM protection from Apple Music songs.

Benefits to Remove Apple Music Tracks’s DRM:
1. After removing DRM from Apple Music, you can offline play Apple Music on any unauthorized devices:

– Any Windows PC, from Windows 95 to latest Windows 10
– iPhone (including iPhone 4), iPad & Apple TV
– iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle & iPod Classic
– Amazon Kindle Fire, Nook, Kobo, etc,.
– Xbox 360, Xbox One
– Chromecast & Chromecast Audio
– Windows phones including Lumia series
– BlackBerry OS devices or Nokia (Symbian) devices
– Any MP3 players
– Any Mac PC, from 10.6 to macOS Mojave 10.14
– All generations of Apple Watch
– All generations of iPod Touch including iPod Touch 4
– Android mobiles, tablest & TVs like Samsung, Huawei, LG, etc,.
– Roku TV & Various Smart TVs
– Plex Media Server
– PSP, PSP Go, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, Sony Walkman
– Sandisk, Archos, Creative Zen, iRiver, etc,.
– Any car audio system

Including iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch with iOS 8.4 or later, iTunes media player, as well as Android phones with Android 4.3 or later.

2. After converting M4P Apple Music to DRM-free songs, you can burn Apple Music into CDs and import DRM-free Apple Music songs to video editors for making songs as background music.

3. Once you have canceled the Apple Music subscription, you can’t enjoy Apple Music songs even you have downloaded or added to the library, and all Apple Music files will disappear from your Apple Music library. After unlocking DRM from Apple Music, you can keep downloades Apple Music songs playabled forever.

Part 5. Remove DRM from iTunes Music by Free Software

To remove DRM from iTunes music, here is another common way to help. That is removing iTunes Music DRM using an audio recorder. Audacity could be a great option for you. Audacity is completely open-source and free for use. You can record music audios from DRM-protected iTunes music and then save the recorded audio file to MP3.

Step 1. Launch Audacity and go to set up Audacity on computer.

Step 2. Choose Windows WASAPI in the dropdown menu under Audio Host.

Step 3. Choose an appropriate loopback device like Speakers or Headphones.

Step 4. Play music in the iTunes library and click the Record button to start recording the music.

Step 5. You can interrupt the music recording by clicking “Stop” and save the recorded audio file on computer.

However, the recorded music will not be saved as the files with its original audio quality kept. What’s more, it will spend too much time to record songs one by one.

Part 6. Tips to Remove DRM from iTunes Movies

Above, we have teach you how to remove DRM from Apple Music, iTunes M4P songs, Audible & iTunes Audiobooks by using UkeySoft Apple Music Converter, because this Apple Music Converter also is an Audio DRM Removal tool. Now, you have learned how to remove DRM protection from audio files. However, how to remove DRM from iTunes movies, as well as iTunes TV shows, music videos and other DRM-ed M4V files?

The movies you purchased or rented from iTunes Store are added DRM protection, so you can see the downloaded movies comes with M4V encryption format, you can only play the iTunes purchased or rented movies with iTunes on Mac/Windows and TV app on iPhone/iPad/Apple TV, you can’t watch iTunes movies on Samsung Galaxy S10 and more Android smart phones. Besides, you not allowed to keep the iTunes purchased movies forever or sharing to your friends, because you don’t really own the movie you have purchased.

In order to keep iTunes purchased/reneted movies playable forever, or playing the iTunes movie with other video app or on non-Apple devices, you need to remove DRM from the iTunes movies and convert m4v movies to mp4.

UkeySoft M4V Converter is a professional iTunes DRM M4V to MP4 Converter and DRM video removal software, it can help you easily remove DRM from iTunes movies/ TV shows/ Music Videos and output as non-DRM MP4 video files. What’s more, this iTunes DRM Video Removal supports convert iTunes M4V video to MP4 at 30X faster speed and keep 5.1 Audio, AD Track and Subtitles. After removing DRM from iTunes movies, you can watch it on any MP4 compatible devices, such as iPhone, iPad, Android phones & tablets, any smart TVs, Xbox 360, PS4, BlackBerry phone, Nokia (Symbian) phone and any smart phones.

How to get rid of DRM of iTunes movies, let’s learn this simple guide to remove DRM from iTunes M4V movies, you will get non-protected MP4 videos without any quality loss.

Part 7. Why Apple Music Converter Can Remove DRM from Apple Music?

In fact, there is no software can remove the DRM protection from Apple Music tracks. Therefore, although there are apps claiming that they can remove Apple Music DRM, it is actually impossible to unlock DRM from Apple Music, but it works on different method to record and convert Apple Music files. After we tested many times to convert Apple Music to MP3 on different computers (Windows & Mac) with many brands of Apple Music Converter. Here, we recommend the most effective and powerful Apple Music converter – UkeySoft Apple Music Converter.

How UkeySoft Apple Music Converter works? UkeySoft really can remove DRM from Apple Music?

UkeySoft Apple Music Converter and TunesBank Apple Music Converter can control iTunes to plays or stop plays the Apple Music tracks in the background (muted). During converting, iTunes plays the Apple Music songs in the background (muted), then the Apple Music converter can record what iTunes playing and convert the recorded audio to MP3, M4A, etc, with 100% original quality. What’s more, unlike other streaming audio recorder, the Apple Music Converter can read and download the song’s ID tags and metadata information, and then save the metadata to the corresponding output MP3 and M4A audio file.

UkeySoft Software Inc. has developed and released the latest version v.6.8.5 of UkeySoft Apple Music Converter for Mac for fully compatible with macOS 11 Big Sur and the Apple Music app.

How UkeySoft control Apple Music app on macOS 11 Big Sur? It works the same as above we already talked. After running UkeySoft Apple Music Converter for Mac v.6.8.5, it will launch Apple Music app automatically and all your Apple Music library(songs, playlists and albums) synced to the converter automatically, just select the songs or playlist you want to remove DMR from, then clicking “Convert” button to remove DRM from Apple Music on macOS Catalina 10.15.

More About UkeySoft Apple Music Converter

#1 All-in-One DRM Audio Removal Program

Apple Music DRM Removal + Audiobook DRM Removal + iTunes DRM Audio/Video Removal

With the help of this powerful Apple Music Converter, you can easily to remove Apple Music DRM and enjoy Apple Music on any MP3 players such as iPod nano, iPod shuffle, SanDisk, Sony Walkman, etc,. In fact, UkeySoft Apple Music Converter can convert Everything that iTunes/Apple Music application can plays, including the unprotected and DRM protected audio files, such as iTunes audiobooks and Audible audiobook, iTunes Podcast. What’s more, it also enables to extract audio from iTunes DRM protected videos, it means that you can convert iTunes M4V movies, TV shows and music video to MP3, M4A, etc,.

#2 Convert Encrypted Audio and Video to DRM-free Audio Formats

As above we have mentioned that UkeySoft can convert Apple Music songs, iTunes contents and Audible audiobooks to various audio formats. Here, you can learn more about it’s supported input contents and output audio formats.

1.Convert Apple Music songs, iTunes protected M4P songs and AAC songs.
2.Convert Audible AAX, AAX+, AA audiobook and iTunes M4B audiobook.
3.Convert iTunes Podcast and iTunes M4V video to audio file.
4.Convert iTunes purchased or rented movies/TV shows/music videos to audio file.
5.Output formats: MP3, AC3, AIFF, AU, FLAC, AAC, WAV, M4A, M4R, and MKA with 100% original quality.

#3 16X Faster Conversion Speed(For Windows Version)

UkeySoft’s lossless conversion technology can help you batch convert as many Apple Music songs, iTunes audio and audiobooks as you like. You can select several Apple Music files or several playlist to convert as a batch. The conversion speed of it can be 5 times faster than other iTunes conversions with the same audio quality.

#4 Save Cover Pictures and Preserve Metadata

As above we have mentioned that the converter can read and save music metadata including the song title, artist name, album name or genre during conversion. In addition, it can download the album artwork, song cover picture.

Conclusion

There are four ways to get Apple Music for free above, compared with recording Apple Music with Screen Recorder, I believe most Apple Music users choose to use Apple Music DRM Removal tool, because the Apple Music Converter enable to batch convert DRM-protected Apple Music M4P songs/playlist/albums to MP3, M4A or other unprotected audio formats legally, after that you can keep Apple Music songs forever, even playing Apple Music songs on any devices with no limits. What a practical tool that you should have a try!

Related Article

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