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There are many ways of removing iTunes DRM. On Windows, you can remove DRM from iTunes by ripping and burning a CD disc. Or you can turn to some DRM Removal Software like Media Converter Pro. On Mac OS X, iMovie is already the perfect freeware for removing DRM from iTunes music. So the following article is dedicated to introducing several methods of removing DRM from iTunes music/video on Windows and Mac.

1. Remove DRM from iTunes music by ripping and burning a CD disc (Win & Mac, iTunes Music Only)

a. Insert a CD-R or CD-RW disc into your CD-ROM drive.

b. Burn DRM iTunes music to make an Audio CD. You cannot select the MP3 CD option since it requires the DRM protected iTunes music be converted to MP3.

c. After the Audio CD is successfully burned, insert the disc into your CD-ROM drive again. Then you can use iTunes to import the music tracks on the burned disc as MP3 files.

2. Remove DRM from iTunes music/videos using Media Converter Pro (Win, Music/Videos)

a. Download Media Converter Pro, install and launch it. ( free download )

b. Import DRM protected iTunes music/video

c. Select the output format

By clicking the “Convert audio to:” or “Convert video to:” box, you can select the output format for the source iTunes DRM music/video (M4P, M4V, M4B). For example, if you want to watch DRM protected iTunes movies or TV shows (.m4v) on your PSP, you can choose “PSP, PS3″ from the profile category list and choose “PSP Video MPEG-4(*.mp4) as the output format.

d. Start to convert DRM iTunes music/video files

Click the “Start” button to begin to convert DRM iTunes music/video files. Then, you can enjoy iTunes music and videos without any restriction.

3. Remove DRM from iTunes music with Apple iMovie (Mac, iTunes Music Only)

Run iMovie and create a New Project.

In the iMovie window, select the ‘Music’ tab. You will notice that the top right portion of the interface now offers a media browser. Locate the playlist which contains purchased music, or search by artist/title.

Select the DRM-laden song and drag the file from the media browser into the iMovie timeline.

In order to export the song, iMovie requires that a visual image be associated with the audio track - iMovie thinks that it is going to be exporting a movie. Simply drag a blank image (or any other image) to the track above the previously imported audio file. Once iMovie has processed the image, select the ‘Export using QuickTime…’ sub menu item from found inside ‘Share’ in iMovie’s menu bar.

In the Save as… dialogue, select “Sound to AIFF” in the Export drop-down menu, Choose an appropriate directory for iMovie to export to, title the file, and select ‘Save’.

Locate the exported AIFF audio file and drag to your iTunes Library. Right-click on the file and select “Create MP3 Version”. Once completed, ‘Get Info’ on the new file, edit meta data, add album art, and trash the originally purchased and AIFF audio files from your iTunes library.

Note: If you fail to find the method that best fits you, you may take a look at this DRM Removals Software Review to get the best DRM removal tool to help you liberate your music/videos.

AMV converter for Mac is a Mac OS X application that supports both Intel Processor and PowerPc. If you happen to buy a MP4/MTV player with video playback support that can only play AMV files, chances are you are using one of the Chinese made MP4/MTV portable players, otherwise known as S1 Mp3 Player. Don’t panic, AMV files is nothing but a propriety video format.

MTV/AMV Converter Mac provide you with the most powerful convert function. You can convert YouTube video, DVD, iMovie Projucts, iTune files or other video files in MOV, MP4, RMVB, DVD, DV, MOD, TOD, VOB, AVI, MPG, WMV file into AMV/MTV file so that you can play on your MP4 Player, MTV Player or your S1 MP3 Player.

With Mac AMV Converter, you can ajust your video files to get the special effection. You can Crop video, Trim video, Set effect, Merge files into one, and capture images from frame. Batch mode conversion make AMV Converter for Mac even more powerful and popular.

How to convert AVI/WMV/MOV/MP4/MPG/FLV/DV/M4V to AMV on Mac(Snow Leopard)?

Step 1: Load video files that you want to convert to .amv
Free Download this Mac AVI to AMV Converter. Install and run it on your Apple Macintosh. Choose the right version according to your Processor. It supports both Intel and PowerPC. Then click “Add File” button on the top left. And batch conversion supported by this AMV Converter for Mac, so you can load several files and convert at a time.

Step 2: Define the output format and output destination
Select AMV as the output file format from the “Profile” drop-down list and choose an folder from your Mac to store the output file format.

Tip: You can trim the video length by setting the starting point and end point by dragging the slider bars under the “Trim” effect previewing window.

Step 3: Start to convert Video to AMV Mac.
Click “Convert” and begin to convert Video to AMV with Video to AMV Converter Mac.

Got lots of text messages on iPhone and worried about their safety?

I’d like to share an easy way to save and backup your iPhone SMS to computer and set a password to keep them safe. What’s more, you can also print out your iPhone SMS messages as you wish.

Simply use this iPhone SMS to computer transfer software to transfer all SMS messages from iPhone to computer.

Here are easy steps to transfer SMS from iPhone to computer.

Step 1: Free Download iPhone SMS to computer transfer software and install it (click HERE to get the full version and save 20%).

Step 2: Connect iPhone to your computer.

Step 3: Launch iPhone SMS to computer transfer softw, the SMS contact info will be automatically displayed as shown in your iPhone screen (example see the following screenshot).

Note: Click on certain contact, the detailed SMS records will be displayed as shown in the below screenshot.

Step 4: If you want to copy all SMS to computer, click “Copy ALL SMS” on the top right of the first screenshot. And then select options:

1): Choose File Type: back up to TXT file or ANTS file; (The difference between TXT file and ANTS file lies in that ANTS file allows you to set a password for protection.
2): Choose File Path: set the desitnation parth for the exported file.
3): Advanced Option: if you choose ANTS file format, you can add a password to protect the file.
Click OK Button to finish the Copy.

Note: You can only copy the first 100 items for each contact in trail version.
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If you want to copy SMS from a specific contact, click “Copy SMS From who” button and select options:
1): Choose File Type: You can only select TXT file format in single contact sms transfer;
2): Choose File Path: where to store the backup file;
Note: Advanced Option is disabled in single contact sms transfer.
Click OK Button to finish the Copy.

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The following step by step tutorial will share with you how to rip/copy DVD to popular video formats and extract audio from DVD with high output video/audio quality on Mac OS X (Tiger, Leopard or Snow Leopard) using Aiseesoft DVD Ripper for Mac.

Step 1. Download and install Aiseesoft DVD Ripper for Mac. ( Free Download )

Step 2. Import DVD Movies

Run Aiseesoft DVD Ripper for Mac. Click the “Load DVD” button to import the DVD movie you want to watch on your iPod.

After you add the DVD, you can choose any titles or chapters you want to convert by ticking the check boxes before them. You can choose to convert DVD with the entire movie or just one or several chapters at will; or you can choose to convert a segment of the DVD movie.

Step 3. Output Settings

Regular DVD movies usually have several subtitles such as English, French, German, etc. You can select the one you prefer. You can also delete the subtitle by selecting “No Subtitle”. It is the same to select “Audio”.

Extend the “Profile” drop-down menu and choose the format that best fits your iPod. Note: This DVD Ripper for Mac can also rip DVD to MP4, AVI, M4V, 3GP, MPG, MPEG, FLV, etc on Mac OS X.

If you want to customize the quality of the output video, you can click the “Settings” button to open the “Settings” window and set video resolution, frame rate, bit rate, encoder, etc. Aiseesoft DVD Ripper for mac lets you extract audio from DVD movie as well. You can set audio resolution, frame rate, bit rate and encoder on the ‘Settings’ panel.

Step 4. Start Conversion

After making the output settings, just click the “Start” button to start converting DVD for your iPod.

After you get the output video files, launch iTunes and start syncing them to your iPod.

There are several Tips and Tricks you can’t miss while using this DVD Ripper for Mac to rip DVD to iPod on Mac OS X:

1. Trim DVD Title or Chapter

If you want to capture a clip from the current title/chapter, you can click the Trim button to open the Trim window and trim the current title or chapter by dragging the Start Time slider to set the start time, and dragging the End Time slider to set the finish time. Then you can only rip segments from dvd on mac.

2. Crop DVD Video

If you want to remove the black edges or just convert an area from your movie video, you can click the Crop button to crop the video of the current title or chapter. You can specify an area either by dragging the frame around the video or setting the crop values: Top, Button, Left and Right. Above the crop pane, you can select an output aspect ratio and the available options are: Keep Original, full screen, 16:9 and 4:3. You can preview the video in the select aspect ratio on the main interface and during the conversion process.

3. Video Effect

If you want to adjust the video effect of your movie, you can click the Effect button and drag each effect adjustment slider to set the video brightness, contrast, saturation and video volume. You can also choose a special effect from the Effect drop-down list to apply to your movie.

It is recommended that you choose iMedia Converter for Mac if you want to both rip DVD and convert video to iPod on your Mac machine.

You may find most of videos and music downloaded from online shops like iTunes, Wal-Mart Music, Rhapsody, Amazon, etc are all DRM protected files. Then what is DRM? Why do we need to bypass DRM protection from WMA, M4P, WMV, M4V, M4A, etc? It is now I am going to tell you.

Definition and restriction of DRM protection

DRM (Digital Rights Management) –DRM is used by digital copyright owners to control who gets to access and copy their work. In particular, DRM gives musicians and movie artists some ability to remote control how people can listen to, view, and duplicate digital files.
Problems you might meet related with DRM protection:

• 1. How do I bypass DRM protection built in to songs bought on Wal-Mart Music?
• 2. Does anyone know of any hacks to bypass Zune’s DRM restrictions?
• 3. What is the best way to bypass DRM protection so I can watch the videos I bought on DVD?
• 4. Is there another way I can somehow bypass iTunes DRM protection and watch the video in another player?
• 5. Which is a good DVD ripping program that will bypass DRM protection?
• 6. ……

Methods to bypass DRM Protection

Commonly DRM removal tools are recommended. Comparing with those DRM removal tools, I prefer Daniusoft Media Converter Ultimate most. It integrates DRM removal, Media Converter and DVD burner together, so that I can not only bypass DRM protection from all those online purchased songs and videos, but also I can convert those media between formats as well as burn them to DVD to watch in home theater.

Step by step to Bypass DRM protection in simple way:

Download Daniusoft Media Converter Ultimate, install and then start it.

Step 1. Add media. Click ‘Add’ button to load your target videos or songs. Media Converter Ultimate supports bypassing DRM from media format in iTunes M4A/M4V, Windows WMA/WMV, Rhapsody WMA, BBC iPlayer WMV and so on.

Step 2. Choose the output format. Most of plain videos and songs formats are supported by Media Converter Ultimate, such as MP4, WMV, AVI, MOV, MP3, WMA, OGG etc. And modules for different devices are also integrated.

Step 3. Hit the “Start” button to begin the bypassing DRM protection and converting process. It will bypass DRM protection and convert to file formts as you want.

Additional details beyond bypassing DRM protection in DMCU

As you may notice, Daniusoft Media Converter Ultimate integrates DVD ripper for you to rip DVD, media converter for you to convert songs and music, videos and movies as you want, and then file transfer for you to transfer converted files to some portable devices like iPod, iPhone, Zune and so on, and finally DVD burner for you to burn converted files to DVD such as to burn iTunes videos and movies to DVD. All these use functions are there with bypassing DRM protection and waiting for you to explore.