[Spud1969]

I have decided to get my first grown up big boy DAP, I bought an Ibasso DX170. I am loving the sound quality , it's like aural porn lol.
I had bought most of my music in the past on I-Tunes, now I am sorting my music out I find that I can't send some of my music to the DX170 as it is protected and after a bit of googling I find that it has DRM , I have bought this music so I think it is a bit of a shxtty trick from Apple.
Can anyone recommend a DRM removal tool, there seems to be a plethora when I google . I don't mind paying as long as it isn't a huge amount. I don't have many albums that I need to remove DRM from.

 

[earmonger]

In Music (or iTunes) go to Help and search Convert to mp3. There are steps you can take to convert Apple proprietary files to mp3, which should get rid of DRM garbage.

 

[Spud1969]

In Music (or iTunes) go to Help and search Convert to mp3. There are steps you can take to convert Apple proprietary files to mp3, which should get rid of DRM garbage.

Thanks for your reply. I get a notification stating that protected files cannot be converted to other formats . You can only basically play it on an Apple device. The dap I have is android based and I cannot send any music from Itunes to my dap that has this protected status.

 

[VNandor]

If you don't find a more convenient solution, as a last ditch effort, you could try to play back the music on a device that lets you capture the (digital) output of the audio driver. The drawback of doing that is you can't go faster than "real time", converting 100 hours of music will take 100 hours just to record it. After that, you still have to export and tag your files one by one. As an example, Audacity can do this (at least on windows) but it is very likely an option for macOS as well. I don't recommend doing this unless you are completely out of options.

 

[Spud1969]

If you don't find a more convenient solution, as a last ditch effort, you could try to play back the music on a device that lets you capture the (digital) output of the audio driver. The drawback of doing that is you can't go faster than "real time", converting 100 hours of music will take 100 hours just to record it. After that, you still have to export and tag your files one by one. As an example, Audacity can do this (at least on windows) but it is very likely an option for macOS as well. I don't recommend doing this unless you are completely out of options.

Thanks for your reply. Fortunately I haven't bought a lot of music on itunes over the years and it would appear that it is only a few albums that are affected so I do need to resort to your option it won't be too laborious an experience. I did read someone on you tube suggest ripping the music to a cd and then copying it from the CD to my device. Once upon a time I probably had some cd rw but probably threw them away when laptops started to scrap a cd drive on them, fortunately I have an old laptop with a cd drive that I can try. There is one you tube video which mentions audacity, i am not familiar with audacity at all so will need to watch the video a few times. It is annoying, I have paid for the music in the Itunes store yet I can only play on an apple device

 

[VNandor]

It's fairly straightforward to do it on windows. First, you have to confirm your playback device is set correctly. If you grab some audio file (preferably .wavs or FLACs because I dont think audacity can read mp3's by default, my older version definitely couldn't do it out of the box) and drop it inside audacity and start playing it, you should hear the music. If not, you'll have to edit the playback device.

You have to go to Edit (top left corner)->Preferences. This brings up a new dialog window. Click on Devices. Set the host to windows wasapi (assuming you don't use an audio interface, then pick the driver for that interface), confirm that the playback device is set correctly. Leave it alone if you heard the music before. The most important part is to set the recording device. This should be set to the same name as your playback device + (loopback). As an example, if your playback device is called "Realtek HD Speakers" the recording device should be set to "Realtek HD Speakers (loopback)". Set channels to stereo. "OK" the changes, don't cancel it.

After that, start playing back some video from your browser and hit record on audacity as the video plays. Make sure to max out the output volume of both the video and the windows mixer. If you know that would be too loud, turn down the volume on your amp first. You should see that audacity starts recording the sound.

Something else I should point out is that audacity records all the sounds that comes from your computer. So if someone starts calling you on a chat, the ringing will ruin a part of your recording.

Edit: leave the host alone as well if you're hearing sound when you test your playback device AND there's a loopback option as well under the recording devices. If either of these are missing, then you should set it to windows wasapi.

 

[Spud1969]

It's fairly straightforward to do it on windows. First, you have to confirm your playback device is set correctly. If you grab some audio file (preferably .wavs or FLACs because I dont think audacity can read mp3's by default, my older version definitely couldn't do it out of the box) and drop it inside audacity and start playing it, you should hear the music. If not, you'll have to edit the playback device.

You have to go to Edit (top left corner)->Preferences. This brings up a new dialog window. Click on Devices. Set the host to windows wasapi (assuming you don't use an audio interface, then pick the driver for that interface), confirm that the playback device is set correctly. Leave it alone if you heard the music before. The most important part is to set the recording device. This should be set to the same name as your playback device + (loopback). As an example, if your playback device is called "Realtek HD Speakers" the recording device should be set to "Realtek HD Speakers (loopback)". Set channels to stereo. "OK" the changes, don't cancel it.

After that, start playing back some video from your browser and hit record on audacity as the video plays. Make sure to max out the output volume of both the video and the windows mixer. If you know that would be too loud, turn down the volume on your amp first. You should see that audacity starts recording the sound.

Something else I should point out is that audacity records all the sounds that comes from your computer. So if someone starts calling you on a chat, the ringing will ruin a part of your recording.

Edit: leave the host alone as well if you're hearing sound when you test your playback device AND there's a loopback option as well under the recording devices. If either of these are missing, then you should set it to windows wasapi.

Fortunately there is a tutorial on you tube as I am sure I would go astray following your instructions. Nothing wrong with your instructions, more like my inability to follow them being a bit of a tech dinosaur . I have never had an iphone or mac , just an ipod as that was the most widely available/well known dap. This issue has made me even more anti Apple than I previously was and the fact that my last ipod touch became obsolete as new generation ipods were released.