Best Apple Music DRM Removal Software Review

By Justin SabrinaUpdated on December 16, 2022

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Apple Music Streaming Music Service

Like most popular streaming music services, Apple Music allows users to access large music libraries - over 50 million songs. It also offers a wide range of music discovery channels, including the 24-hour online radio station 'Beats 1'. Superstars like Drake, Frank Ocean, Chance The Rapper, Katy Perry and Taylor Swift have signed deals to either exclusively release their album/songs through Apple Music or to offer early access for subscribers. Before deciding to subscribe to the service, Apple Music offers a 90-day free trial experience, during which you have the same privileges as Apple Music subscribers. If you are satisfied with it, just pay Apple $ 9.99 / £9.99 per month, you can stream as much music as you like, as many times as you like. Also, Apple Music costs 14.99 for a family package which gives access for up to six people.

Apple Music’s Playable Devices

Not all devices can play Apple music songs. If you don't know what's specific, here is the answer.

iOS devices (Running on iOS 8.4 or higher)
Android devices (Download app from Google Play - Android 4.3 required)
Apple TV (Apple TV 4th generation and Apple TV 4K only)
Mac (Requires iTunes 12.2 running on OS X 10.9.5)
Windows PC (Requires iTunes 12.2 running on Windows 7 or higher)
SONOS
Amazon Echo / Echo Dot / Other Amazon Speakers (using Bluetooth connection)

Apple Music's FairPlay DRM Copyright Protection

Do you know why only Apple subscribers can download tracks for offline playback? Apple Inc.'s Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology is called FairPlay. All Apple music tracks have been added to prevent users from playing Apple music songs on unauthorized devices, like MP3 players, PSP, iPod nano/shuffle, Android tablets and more. It means that Apple Music songs can only be played on Apple device or a Microsoft Windows PC with iTunes installed due to Apple Music's FairPlay DRM copyright protection. Besides, you are not taking ownership of the downloaded songs even if you are a subscriber. Once you cancel your subscription, these tracks will not be playable.

Remove Apple Music’s DRM for Permanent Save

The best way to save your downloaded Apple Music songs forever is to remove DRM from Apple Music songs, playlist. And if you want to listen to Apple Music with more different Non-Apple devices or without iTunes, a professional Apple Music DRM removal software is your wise choice. Here we will extract a powerful application that allows you to strip DRM from files downloaded by Apple Music and old iTunes DRM protected files, so you get an audio file free of restrictions and can be loaded and played into the device of your choice, be it an Android device or a Portable Media player or even in your car.

2019 Best Apple Music DRM Removal Software Review

UkeySoft Apple Music Converter is an all-in-one solution for removing DRM from any iTunes music, like Apple Music, iTunes M4P music, M4A, M4B & Audible Audiobooks. The software can be used to convert Apple Music M4P or M4A files to unprotected MP3, AAC, M4A, FLAC, WMA, WAV formats with nearly 100% original quality preserved. Plus, it will retain the full ID3 tags in the generated DRM free audio files, such as title, artist, album, year, track number and genre. Users can convert DRM music files at up to 16X faster speed and no matter how many songs you need to convert, it can be done in batches.

Pros:

• Remove DRM from Apple Music, iTunes Music M4P, M4A, M4B & Audible AA, AAX audiobooks;
• Convert Apple Music M4P files to plain MP3, AAC, FLAC or WAV;
• Preserve original audio quality after conversion;
• Convert Apple Music audio files in batches;
• 16X Conversion Speed & Keep ID3 Tags and metadata;
• Extract audio from DRM-protected M4V movies, TV shows;
• Listen to Apple Music songs without Apple Music app or iTunes;
• Download Apple Music tracks without Apple Music subscription;

Cons:

• Its powerful features are not free;
• Songs converted using the free version are incomplete;

Tip: Why Convert Apple Music Files to MP3?

One of the keys to UkeySoft Apple Music Converter is to convert Apple music files to MP3 and retain the original Apple Music ID3 tag information and other meta information. Congratulations, you can freely control these music files after you get the unprotected MP3 files. Now, you can do what the Apple Music Subscription Service can't give you:

Play Apple music on a variety of MP3 players, mobile devices and media player software;
Set Apple Music as an alarm and ringtone for iPhone/Android devices;
Set Apple Music MP4 songs as background music;
Easily download Apple music tracks without a subscription;
Permanently retaining songs downloaded by Apple Music after unsubscribing;
Remove annoying DRM from Apple Music;

In fact, in addition to outputting MP3, this program also supports converting Apple music to other unprotected audio formats such as AC3, M4A, M4R, FLAC, MKA, AU, AC3. There is always a format that you want. Next is a detailed tutorial on how to remove DRM protection from Apple Music using UkeySoft Apple Music Converter.

Tutorial: How to Remove DRM from Apple Music Tracks & Playlist

1.Add Apple Music Songs to iTunes Library

Before using UkeySoft Apple Music Converter to download and convert Apple Music songs to MP3, you need to add or download songs/playlists from Apple Music store to the iTunes library, if you want to download Apple Music songs to mp3 quickly, please download the M4P songs to the iTunes library at first, then exit the iTunes program.

2.Launch UkeySoft Apple Music Converter

Download, install and launch UkeySoft Apple Music Converter on your PC or Mac. Meanwhile, you will notice that iTunes has been launched automatically.

3.Select Apple Music Tracks to Download

All audio files stored in your iTunes library including Apple Music, iTunes purchased songs, protected iTunes music, iTunes audiobooks, Audible audiobooks, etc. will be loaded directly on the main screen of the software.Select the Apple Music songs or playlists you want to download. Or you can use the "Search" bar to locate the songs wanted easily.

4.Select Output Format

Now you can you can choose output format as MP3/AAC/FLAC/WAV and adjust output quality, conversion speed and output path, etc. for your music.

5.Remove DRM from Apple Music

After selecting the output format you want, just click "Convert" to start removing Apple Music DRM and converting them to the format you like. When the conversion is done, you can find the converted songs in the output folder.

6.Get the DRM-free Apple Music Songs

When the conversion is done, you can click on "Open Output File" to find out the DRM-free Apple Music songs. And you will find all the converted DRM-free songs with ID3 tags kept.