Remove Napster DRM
From the people who brought you the DRMless interface to the iTunes music store, comes another handy tool if you’re a DRM-hating Napster user. Musik is a command line only utility which, like unlike PyMusique allows you to download music before any type of DRM is applied. reverse engineer the DRM.
The author of the software claims to have stumbled upon this while trying to make iTunes/Napster work under Linux. Currently in version 0.1 Musik supports the following…
Features of the iTunes Client:
Logins
Searches
Previews
Features of the Napster Client:
Logins
Searching
Downloading
April 17th, 2005 at 8:23 am
Small correction. In the case of Napster, the DRM is done server-side, so the downloads still have DRM applied. We have been reverse-engineering the DRM for the last few days, and we are getting closer..
We are working on a library called OpenDRM that allows opensource applications to work with protected files, yet not violate the rights given in the license file. (E.g. if the license says that you can’t burn the file, you won’t be able to.)
Thanks,
Cody Brocious.
April 17th, 2005 at 9:04 am
Thanks for the clarification Cody! Keep up the great work.
May 14th, 2005 at 2:26 pm
I want musik for Napster To-Go. Can you make a KDE or GNOME front-end
May 18th, 2005 at 2:17 pm
Does anyone have a copy that I can download as the server where it was originally held seems to be offline
June 28th, 2005 at 6:27 pm
cmon, someone’s gotta have a mirror to musik..
November 28th, 2005 at 6:20 pm
There is a website called freemymp3.com that has some good info on removing drm. Some other pretty cool stuff there too.
January 31st, 2006 at 4:44 am
I looked freemymp3.com up. Nice hint. They are using “Tunebite” to remove the protection. Tunebite is now even available with the new version 2.1 that allows you to rerecord your songs even faster than the older version.
February 19th, 2006 at 10:55 am
Tunebite.Com is a great tool to use. I was not pleased with the first version of it that converted at real time. But this is really fast now. Thanks for the info Divian
August 2nd, 2006 at 3:01 am
I used tunebite with wmv videos: it looks more like a videocapture tool (with bugs!! it also captures the menus from the wmplayer, and it is not well centered!) than a DRM remover!
Any experience with this ?
May 13th, 2008 at 2:24 am
For the DRM protected files I always use the Digital Media Converterhelp me remove the DRM which supports most of the popular formats, it keeps good quality and high conversion speed.