Summary
This article provides the best Apple Music DRM removal tools and tutorials, follow this tutorial and learn how to remove DRM from Apple Music, so that you can keep Apple Music songs forever, and enjoy Apple Music on any device.

Apple Music has adopted DRM encryption scheme to restrict you from playing the Apple Music songs on unauthorized device – such as MP3 player, iPods. Do you want to download Apple Music to your music devices and then listen to Apple Music offline on it freely? Do you want to burn Apple Music to CD for playing in car? Wanna set Apple Music as ringtone for iPhone/Android phone? You will find that it is so difficult to do. Even though you’ve found where the downlaoded songs are saved, and you have get the downloaded Apple Music songs( DRM-protected .m4p format), those Apple Music files comes with DRM-protection, so most devices and media players can’t play Apple Music since it won’t support the DRM-protected M4P file. As an Apple Music user, do you know what’s FairPlay DRM restrictions and how it protect Apple Music file? Let’s tell your some knowledge about FairPlay DRM encryption and teach you how to remove DRM from Apple Music with a complete guide.

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Apple Music has always played an important role in streaming music services. More than 100 million songs are included in its huge music library. However, streaming Apple Music songs is not a simple matter, because all Apple Music tracks are encoded with DRM protection.

About Apple Music & FairPlay DRM Restrictions

Digital rights management (DRM) is the use of technological protection measures (TPM) to control and protect copyrights for digital media, such as music and video, all Apple Music songs comes with FairPlay Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection.

Although you have subscribed to Apple Music service, you are restricted to use the Apple Music service on limits the number of devices with it’s app and iTunes, and even you have downloaded songs to the Apple Music library/iTunes library, you can’t take the downloaded Apple Music songs out of Apple’s products and apps. That’s why you will find it is difficult to transfer Apple Music to iPod Nano, save Apple Music forever, backup/copy/share Apple Music songs or burn Apple Music to CD.

Due to DRM restrictions, we are only allowed to listen to Apple Music songs on authorized devices with iTunes or Apple Music app. In order to play Apple Music on MP3 players, iPod Nano, etc., most of us expect to remove DRM from Apple Music. Are you?

If you want to copy, share and play Apple Music songs freely, you should remove DRM from Apple Music first. Can’t wait to remove DRM from Apple Music songs? To be honest, it is not an easy job to remove DRM from Apple Music songs. Luckily, there are many powerful Apple Music DRM Removal tools that can help you remove Apple Music DRM. Before stripping the DRM from Apple Music, you might ask similar questions: It’s possible to remove DRM from Apple Music? Is removing DRM illegal? Are DRM converters can remove Apple DRM? If you want to know whether you can remove DRM from Apple Music files or not, please continue reading the contents below.

We will explain the in-depth explanation of Apple Music and DRM, introduce a reliable Apple Music DRM Removal tool to help you bypass DRM from Apple Music, and convert Apple Music to MP3.

Part 1. Best Apple Music DRM Removal Tool

Removing the DRM is the best way to save Apple Music songs forever. There are many DRM removal softwares on the market that claim to be free, but most of the free tools are outdated. You may need to downgrade your computer system or iTunes version before the software starts to work. Worse, it may bring software viruses or lack some advanced features. If you are looking for the best Apple Music DRM removal tool, TunesBank Apple Music Converter is your perfect choice.

TunesBank Apple Music Converter is an all-in-one Apple Music DRM Removal, iTunes Audio DRM Removal, and Apple Music Converter. It is good at losslessly converting Apple Music songs, albums, playlists to MP3, M4A, FLAC, WAV format for offline playback. Immediately, you can freely use Apple Music files, whether it is to transfer songs to MP3 players, iPod nano, Xbox and other devices for offline playback, or sync Apple Music songs to USB drive, SD card for backup, or use songs as background music and for more usages. With just one click, all selected songs will be converted to MP3 format or other general audio formats, preserved with its original ID3 tags.

Unlike other Apple Music converters, TunesBank Apple Music Converter supports converting Apple Music at 5X (Mac version)-10X (Windows version) fast speed without quality loss. It also allows you to continue adding songs to the “Converting” list even if the conversion has started. In general, TunesBank Apple Music Converter is a desktop program for Windows PCs and Mac PCs. Last but not least, it is also a perfect iTunes Audio Converter and Audiobook Converter that can be used to convert iTunes M4P music, Audible AA/AAX and iTunes M4B audiobooks to unprotected MP3 and M4A formats.

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Salient Features of TunesBank Apple Music DRM Removal:

  • Remove DRM from Apple Music songs, albums, and playlists.
  • Convert Apple Music to MP3/M4A/FLAC/WAV and other formats.
  • Keep the original ID3 tags and metadata.
  • Convert Apple Music to MP3 with lossless sound quality.
  • Preserves the best lossless audio quality of your Apple Music songs.
  • Quick conversion: 10X for Windows version and Mac version.
  • Convert different songs to different audo formats at once.
  • The intuitive and easy-to-use user interface is easy to use.
  • Supports Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11; Mac OS X 10.11 and higher.

Tips: TunesBank Audible Converter is the best AA and AAX to MP3 Converter. By adopting outstanding decryption technology, it enables users to crack Audible DRM and convert all Audible AA/AAX Audiobooks to MP3 with 100% audio quality at up to 100X faster speed. Besides,s it doesn’t require to launch iTunes app and authorize Audible account!

Part 2. How to Remove DRM from Apple Music

Now let’s start to remove DRM from Apple Music and convert songs to MP3 for offline listening with the help of TunesBank Apple Music Converter.

Step 1. Install and Launch TunesBank Apple Music Converter
Free download and install the TunesBank Apple Music Converter on your computer. Launch it after installation, then please login your Apple ID.

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Step 2. Add Apple Music Playlist to Download
Please open a Playlist or Album and click “+” icon to add all songs into the converting list.

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If you have sync iTunes playlist to Apple Music web player, you can also view them and add iTunes playlist to the converting list.

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Step 3. Select Apple Music Songs
When all the Apple Music tracks are added to the converting list, tapping “Select All” beside the “Remove” icon or scrolling the list to manually tick the songs you desire to convert are both available.

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Step 4. Select Output Format
Go to the bottom of the main window and you can select the non-DRM output audio format.

TunesBank Apple Music Converter support 4 output audio formats which include MP3, M4A, WAV and FLAC.

select output format

Most media player and mobile devices support MP3 audio format, the MP3 is recommended. For example, when you select MP3 as output format, if you want to get a good quality audio file, please set the Profile to MP3 – High Quality (48,000 Hz, stereo, 320 Kbps), the audio quality will also be great as the original Apple Music AAC audio files.

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Step 4. Remove DRM from Apple Music
Once done, all you need to do is to click the “Convert All” button to start to convert and download the select Apple Music tracks to MP3/M4A/WAV/FLAC for you. TunesBank Apple Music Converter will helps you remove DRM from Apple Music during conversion.

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Step 5. Get non-DRM Apple Music Songs
When it is finished, you can review the history under the “Finished” section.

get DRM-free Apple Music

The, please click “View Output File” to open the output folder, you can see those selected Apple Music tracks be converted completed, all music files is MP3 format.

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Apple Music AAC audio file VS output MP3 file

TunesBank Apple Music Converter offers high output audio quality, with this powerful and userful tool, you can quickly convert Apple Music to high-quality MP3, M4A, FLAC, and WAV formats for offline playing on any devices. What’s more, your music files will be converted quickly with ID3 tags and metadata kept.

ID3 tags and metadata kept

Now, you have got the personal copies of your music without DRM encryption. Let’s comparing original Apple Music track and the converted Apple Music songs:

Original Apple Music track: kind – Apple Music AAC audio file, bit rate – 256 kbps, sample reate 44100 kHz, iCloud status – Apple Music, location – iCloud

Converted Apple Music song: kind – MP3 audio file, bit rate – 256 kbps, sample reate 44100 kHz, Where – Mac local folder. Even better, TunesBank Apple Music Converter allows you to convert Apple Music at 320kbps botrate and 48,000Hz sample rate!

Original Apple Music track vs. mp3 files

The free trial version allows all users convert the first 3 minutes of each Apple Music tracks, just download and try to remove Apple Music song’s DRM protection now!

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Part 3: Remove DRM from iTunes Music with iTunes Match

Do you have purchased and downloaded songs from iTunes Store and now you want to play those previous iTunes songs on MP3 player? To do so, you need to remove DRM from iTunes songs, because the previous iTunes songs comes with DRM protection, which can only be played on iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, HomePod, or up to 5 authorized computers. If you want to play, sync, or share these protected iTunes songs, you need to remove DRM from iTunes music.

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Above, we have teach you how to remove DRM from Apple Music, you also can use the TunesBank Apple Music Converter to remove iTunes music DRM. In addition, you also can use iTunes Match to remove iTunes DRM through matching, uploading and accessing your music library on your devices(iPhone). Here are how to subscribe to iTunes Match and how to unlock DRM from iTunes music.

Sometimes, you might see some topics about how to use iTunes Match to remove DRM from iTunes music. In fact, iTunes Match cannot remove DRM from iTunes songs, it’s only a service provided by Apple company for users to upload music library from iTunes/Apple Music app to iCloud and then sync music library to all of devices – mobile phones or another PC/Mac with iTunes/Apple Music app. In this part, let’s tell you what is iTunes Match? How to Subscribe to iTunes Match? And how to use iTunes Match to access your iTunes music on all of devices?

iTunes Match – Match and Access Your iTunes Songs Seamlessly

About iTunes Match: Apple’s iTunes Match is like as a music bridge that helps you access all of your music purchased from iTunes on all of your devices, even songs that you’ve imported from other sources such as CDs, iPhone or iPad. To subscribe iTunes Match, you need to pay $24.99 a year.

Subscribe to iTunes Match

With this subscription, you can match or upload your music library from the Apple Music app on your Mac or iTunes for Windows on your PC to iCloud, after uploading your music library to iCloud, if you want to download them to your mobile phone or (another) computers, just login with the same Apple ID and turn on “Sync Library”, than you’re able to access your music library and stream or download DRM-free iTunes songs to up to 10 of your devices.

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How to Subscribe to iTunes Match

For Windows users, or you still use macOS Mojave 10.14 and older

1. Open iTunes on Windows PC or Mac(macOS Mojave and older), then sign in with your Apple ID and password.

2. Click Store at the top of the iTunes window.

3. Click the iTunes Match button. Fill in the bill information and click the Subscribe button.

For macOS Catalina 10.15 – macOS Monterey 12

1. On your Mac, open the Apple Music app and sign in with your Apple ID and password.

2. Go to the sidebar and click the iTunes Store.

3. Scroll to the bottom of the Store window. Under Features, click iTunes Match.

4.Click the Subscribe button and fill in the bill information and choose the Subscribe button.

How to Remove DRM from Your Music with iTunes Match

After you subscribe, you’re able to remove DRM from iTunes music with iTunes Match, the iTunes Match automatically scans your music library and upload them to iCloud Music Library, once your music library is uploaded, you’ll see all your iTunes songs in your iCloud Music Library.

Step 1. Sign in with Apple ID that you use with iTunes Match on your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Mac, or PC

Step 2. To access your songs and playlists on other devices, turn on Sync Library on all of your devices, it will match your music library.
For Windows/Mac: Please launch iTunes and turn on iTunes match, select Store > Turn On iTunes Match from the iTunes menubar. iTunes will confirm that you want to pay the $25 fee before continuing. When you’ve accepted the charges, iTunes will begin matching your music.

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Step 3. Go to the Music section and click the Library, then select the protected iTunes songs. It will match your music library size/origins and your Internet speed.

match your music

Step 4. After matching finished, you need to select the songs protected and delete them.
Press Delete keyboard to delete the protected songs.

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Step 5. Tap the iCloud Download icon start to download these DRM-free songs from iCloud.

download music with itunes match

Step 6. Well done, you get the unprotected iTunes songs, now you can play thee iTunes music on all of your devices.

Tips: Once you cancel iTunes Match subscription, any iTunes songs you’ve downloaded will be playable on your devices, but you’ll not be able to stream and access any non-downloaded songs in iCloud Music Library. In addition, you will not be able to acess the DRM-protected Apple Music songs after unsubscribe, if you want to save Apple Music forever and play Apple Music tracks on any devices, you need to remove DRM from Apple Music. TunesBank Apple Music Converter is the best choice to remove DRM from Apple Music, iTunes music & audiobooks and Audible audiobooks, so that you’re able to play iTunes music/audiobooks on all of devices you like.

Part 4. Remove DRM from Apple Music with Audacity Tool

If you want to remove DRM from Apple Music for free, Audacity could be a great option for you. Audacity is completely open-source and free for using. You can try to record audio from DRM-protected Apple Music, and then it will save the recordings as MP3 files.

How to remove DRM from Apple Music with Audacity Tool:

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

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

Step 3. Then choose an appropriate loopback device like Speakers or Headphones.

Step 4. Play Apple Music and click the “Record” button to start recording Apple Music as MP3 files.

Step 5. You can click Stop button to end the recording when you’re done, then it will save the recording on your computer folder.

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Part 5. Apple Music and DRM: What You Need to Know

How Does Apple Music DRM Work?

Like other streaming services such as Spotify, Apple Music uses a DRM encryption scheme to restrict you from downloading songs to play on devices without iTunes or Music app. Although every first-time registrant is given a 3-month free trial, during which you can download songs for offline listening. After it ends, you will automatically be charged a monthly rent of $9.99. Of course, everyone can choose to cancel the subscription before the trial ends. You can’t keep Apple Music songs forever because all downloaded content will no longer be usable once the subscription is stopped. If you cancel the music subscription, the entire subscribed music library including songs/playlists/albums will disappear forever.

All this is attributed to Apple Music’s FairPlay DRM protection. We know that under DRM protection, Apple Music songs can’t be listened to on unauthorized devices, such as MP3 players, iPod nano/shuffle/classic, etc. Therefore, only when you completely get rid of the DRM protection from Apple Music, you can keep Apple Music songs forever, as well as transferring Apple Music to USB drive, SD card, MP3 players, iPod nano or easily use Apple Music songs as background music.

Is It Legal to Remove DRM from Apple Music?

There is an exception called “fair use”, which is a concept established by Anglo-American laws, so consumers can reasonably create copies of materials they legally purchase for personal use, so, if you want to remove Apple Music songs’s DRM for listening on your other devices only, and not for commercial purposes, it is legal to remove DRM from Apple Music for personal usage or enjoying.

In other words, if you are an Apple Music subscriber, it is legal to remove DRM from Apple Music and save the songs to a dedicated device as long as you don’t share the ripped songs with others. Using an Apple Music DRM removal to bypass DRM from Apple Music and convert songs to common formats such as MP3. After removing DRM from Apple Music, you are able to keep Apple Music forever and enjoy music freely even if you unsubscribe Apple Music.

Part 6. Benefits to Remove DRM from Apple Music

If you have an activated Apple Music account, you may have experienced the terrible experience of DRM. In a word, Apple Music FairPlay DRM restricts us from freely using, transferring, backing up, and saving songs. After removing DRM from Apple Music and converting Apple Music to MP3, you can enjoy them freely. For example, you can:

  • Keep songs, albums, artists and playlist downloaded from Apple Music forever.
  • Listen to Apple Music songs on devices without Apple Music or iTunes app;
  • Transfer Apple Music to Spotify, YouTube music, Amazon Music, Tidal, etc.
  • Play Apple Music songs on popular media players like VLC, Windows Media Player or QuickTime.
  • Use Apple Music on more than 10 devices (or five computers);
  • Use Apple Music on multiple devices at the same time;
  • Convert Apple Music files to other audio formats;
  • Edit or remix Apple Music tracks on audio editing software;
  • Burn Apple Music songs to a CD/DVD to play in the car;
  • Play Apple Music on iPod nano/shuffle/classic and other generic MP3 player;
  • Play Apple Music on other kind of device, PSP, PSP3, PS4, PS5, smart TVs, computer.
  • Save unprotected Apple Music songs to USB drive, SD card, or portable devices, etc.
  • Set Apple Music track as alarm or ringtone on iPhone, Android phone.
  • Use Apple Music as BGM on your video project or PowerPoint presentation.
  • Upload Apple Music songs to Google Drive, One Drive for backup.

Part 7. Remove DRM from iTunes Music, Movies, TV Shows

Do you know that Apple only sold music for free in the iTunes store after 2009? Moreover, your purchased movies, TV shows, and music videos from iTunes store also added DRM encryption. This means you can only download and play these DRM-locked iTunes music/videos on Apple authoriced devices. Is it possible to remove DRM from iTunes music, movies, TV shows, and music videos so that you can enjoy your iTunes purchased contents? Yes!

Remove DRM from iTunes Music

Besides removing DRM from Apple Music, TunesBank Apple Music Converter also allows you to revmove DRM from iTunes music, iTune movies, music videos and TV shows, and then convert them to plain MP3, M4A, FLAC audios. The process is the same as the second part, just add the purchased iTunes music or the rented iTunes movie to the iTunes library in advance without downloading. For more details, you can refer to How to Remove DRM from iTunes Music.

Remove DRM from iTunes Movies, TV Shows

If you want to convert iTunes movies to MP4, you can try this porfessional iTune M4V Converter. It not only enables you to remove DRM from iTunes Movies, TV shows, but also lets you convert iTunes movies & TV shows to MP4 format with high quality, so you can watch iTunes video offline on any device and player without the iTunes app! Read How to Remove DRM from iTunes Movies.

Remove DRM from iTunes Movies

Conclusion

Removing the DRM from Apple Music is the only method to get Apple Music forever without subscription. To remove DRM from Apple Music tracks, we recommend you to use TunesBank Apple Music Converter. TunesBank provides a quick and easy solution to help you remove DRM from Apple Music and convert Apple Music to common audio formats, like MP3 or M4A. After which, you can transfer the DRM-free Apple Music songs to any other devices for offline listening without restrictions. In addition, it can help you remove DRM from iTune music, movies, TV shows, music videos and convert them to plain MP3 audios. This software is a great advice for anyone who wants to avoid the high rental costs of Apple Music. Why not have a try?

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