Apple Music Moving Apple Music library to an external drive and dealing with DRM?

[NJRonbo]

Want to get about 300GB worth of downloaded music off of my iPhone and onto an external hard drive which will be used in my vehicle.

I am using a piece of software called EXPORT FOR ITUNES which works very well in connecting to the master library on my Mac and then transferring it to an external SSD.

All is well and good...

...until I get a notification that there are about 100+ songs that cannot be copied due to DRM

I suppose I could just redownload those same 100 songs from another source and reupload them. However, that takes time.

Is there a way around this? I know there's a handful of software out there that will strip the DRM, but I am not sure they will do it during a bulk transfer from iTunes/Apple Music to a hard drive.

On top of that, a lot of the software that's out there gets very bad reviews, borderline accusing the companies of scamming customers for something that doesn't work well.

Any suggestions?

 

[Sheepish-Lord]

Are you trying to get Apple Music items exported? Anything you have in Apple Music you don’t actually own regardless of it being downloaded. Effectively this would allow someone to subscribe for $10/month and download everything off Apple Music then cancel the service or do whatever they want with it. So if that’s what you’re trying to do then it won’t work.

Now if you imported stuff into Music you already owned similar to ripping CD’s into iTunes then that’s different but you would already own that and wouldn’t see any issues I would imagine.

 

[NJRonbo]

Are you trying to get Apple Music items exported? Anything you have in Apple Music you don’t actually own regardless of it being downloaded. Effectively this would allow someone to subscribe for $10/month and download everything off Apple Music then cancel the service or do whatever they want with it. So if that’s what you’re trying to do then it won’t work.

Now if you imported stuff into Music you already owned similar to ripping CD’s into iTunes then that’s different but you would already own that and wouldn’t see any issues I would imagine.

This is music I downloaded and owned. My own personal collection.

However, apparently, I bought a large handful of music from Apple, which I downloaded into my collection, all of which contain DRM.

 

[pup]

Assuming you have either an Apple Music or iTunes Match subscription, try right clicking each of the songs and selecting ‘remove download’, then download them again. If they’ve been properly matched then you’ll get a DRM-free download. Chances are, though, that those songs are ones that Apple doesn’t have a DRM-free version to give you. Who knows why exactly, but it could be that the album or song was re-released at some point and Apple’s servers don’t recognize it as being the same as what you’re trying to match. The fact that the company owns Shazam notwithstanding.

If that doesn’t work then I don’t think there’s a good option for you, but if you discover one then please post back since I have about 750 of my own to replace.

As far as I know, your options are either one of those third party apps, or using AudioHijack to essentially rip the songs to mp3 as they play. Audio Hijack is solid and dependable but that’s a time consuming process.

 

[NJRonbo]

Assuming you have either an Apple Music or iTunes Match subscription, try right clicking each of the songs and selecting ‘remove download’, then download them again. If they’ve been properly matched then you’ll get a DRM-free download. Chances are, though, that those songs are ones that Apple doesn’t have a DRM-free version to give you. Who knows why exactly, but it could be that the album or song was re-released at some point and Apple’s servers don’t recognize it as being the same as what you’re trying to match. The fact that the company owns Shazam notwithstanding.

If that doesn’t work then I don’t think there’s a good option for you, but if you discover one then please post back since I have about 750 of my own to replace.

As far as I know, your options are either one of those third party apps, or using AudioHijack to essentially rip the songs to mp3 as they play. Audio Hijack is solid and dependable but that’s a time consuming process.

Thank you for that, pup. Will try it.