DRM Music Converter

NoteBurner DRM Music Converter

NoteBurner DRM Music Converter utilizes virtual CD burning technology to simulate the burning and ripping process. By doing so, NoteBurner DRM Music can convert DRM music to MP3, WMA and WAV at fast speed and with nice quality.

NoteBurner DRM Music Converter can convert aac, m4p, m4a, m4b, wma and audio book to mp3, unprotected wma and wav.

This excellent music converter can also convert wma, mp3, wav, rax, mp4, ra, snd, aac, ogg, aa and aif, etc. to mp3, wav and wma.

NoteBurner M4P to MP3 Converter

Platform: Windows Price: USD 34.95

Since NoteBurner Audio Converter uses virtual burning technology, media player like iTunes, Windows Media Player or Real Player, or audio editing program like Adobe Audition, is required to co-work with the program to complete the converting.

NoteBurner DRM Music Converter is able to convert all types of audio files that can be played by media players.

Puretracks' DRM-free music for BlackBerry

BlackBerry users can now have access to Puretracks' DRM-free music store, with tunes available from four major labels, plus myriad indie labels. Puretracks has developed a version of its over-the-air music download store that is compatible with a number of BlackBerry handsets. The lucky winners are users of the 8100 Pearl, the 8300 Curve, and the 8800 series smart phones.

Music from Universal, Warner, EMI, Sony BMG, and independent labels will be encoded as AAC and AAC+ files. That's half what the iTunes Music Store encodes its AAC files at.

Andrea Ziegler, the chief operating officer of Puretracks, noted that, "The Puretracks Mobile music service we have developed for the BlackBerry platform is an innovative mobile music store for North America that employs DRM-free files. For wireless users, this equates to inexpensive airtime costs, smaller storage requirements, and higher music quality."

SongNumbers music service requires no DRM

SongNumbers has started to provide music service that requires no software, no media players, and without DRM. SongNumbers.com is a new mobile music service which enables fans to preview, listen to, and share and purchase songs by a wide variety of artists.

There is no complicated software involved, there is no DRM issue, and users don’t need to install special players. "We see an increasing trend of consumers willing to trade off and receive advertising to gain more and better mobile content,” said Jeff Herrmann, vice president of Nielsen Mobile, in the release. “Successful mobile marketers will meet the challenge offered by consumers by engaging with them in a way that adds value to the mobile user content experience."

Warner Music goes DRM-free

Warner Music has offered its catalogue without digital rights management (DRM) software for the first time. The music giant has signed a deal with MP3 site 7digital to sell DRM-free music in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany and Spain. Warner joins EMI in no longer selling music online with DRM code.

The move will be a snub to Apple's iTunes service, which has angered some in the music industry by using its dominance of the online music market to set prices. The addition of Warner's MP3 catalogue means that over 80 per cent of 7digital's 3.5 million tracks are now DRM-free.

7digital is committed to becoming the destination for MP3s and it plans to make its entire music catalogue available in DRM-free high-quality MP3 format by summer 2008.

Book Publishers Abandoning DRM

Book publishers are beginning to abandon DRM-protected audio books. Random House, started offering DRM-free mp3s; Penguin has announced that it will follow suit. T

DRM just doesn't work. Publishers tuck to DRM out of fear that pirated copies would diminish revenue. Random House tested the justification for this fear when it introduced the less DRM concept with eMusic.