How to remove DRM and play iTunes protected music on Archos 7?

7-inch large LCD screen, 320GB hard drive, touch-screen navigation, stream-lined body, all of this makes Archos 7 a admirable "Internet Media Tablet", sometimes however, magnificence provokes mortification when you realize the Archos 7 can't play iTunes music, especially the DRM protected M4P music. But never mind, here this tutorial is going to show you how to remove DRM protection and transfer iTunes music on Archos 7 to offset this regret.

 

Why can't play iTunes music on Archos 7

Audio playback of Archos 7: suport Stereo MP3 (30-320 Kbits/s); WMA; Protected WMA (in line with Microsoft's "Play for Sure" DRM system); WAV; AC3 stereo; and OGG Vorbis audio files.

 

The iTunes Store provides: M4A music ( DRM-free from iTunes Plus); M4P songs (Copy-protected by Apple's "FairUse" DRM mechanism in 256Kbps).

 

Then we can see that both the iTunes DRM-free music and DRM-protected songs can't play on Archos 7 due to copyright protection and audio formats difference.

 

How to play iTunes music on Archos 7

Remove DRM: For the copyright protected M4P music, we need a DRM removal software to strip DRM first.

Convert format: Since Archos 7 dosen't support M4V or M4P, we need to convert M4P & M4V to Archos 7 compatible WMA/MP3/WAV...

That means we need a all-in-one protected music converter to remove DRM protection and convert music format both.

 

To what we resort to remove DRM and convert iTunes music to Archos 7

Aimersoft Music Converter could be your primary choice as it is good at:

 

Remove DRM --- Remove DRM protection from iTunes ; Crack DRM from Napster; Strip DRM from Rhapsody; Remove DRM from Zune Marketplace.

Convert music --- Convert DRM-protected music to Archos: as DRMed M4P to WMA/MP3, DRMed WMA to MP3; Convert non-DRM music between M4A / WMA / MP3 / AAC / AC3 / MKA / WAV / OGG / APE / AIFF.

Furthermore, it can also extract audio track (such as the opening theme, ending theme, and background music) from movie and video files.

 

3 steps to remove DRM and convert iTunes protected music to Archos 7

 

1. Free download Aimersoft Music Converter, install and luanch it, the default settings work well with your PC, you don't need to make anymore configeration.

 

 

2. When come to the main interface, you can directly drag-drop target media file to the conversion window, or hit the top-left 'Add' button to import the target files. Then click 'setting' to choose output format you like, as well as the bit rate and sample rate if you're a Hi-Fi.

 

 

3. When go through the first 2 steps, hit 'start' button lower-righted on the main window, conversion will be soon done, then you can freely enjoy or share iTunes music on your Archos 7 palyer!