Have you download music and video from Windows Media Player, iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster, bearshare, Spiral Frog, BBC iPlayer downloads? These popular WMA music and WMV movie download programs among the music fans always come with a disgusting word - 'DRM'. Therefore, in order to enjoy these downloaded files in iPod, iPhone, iPad, we can firstly remove DRM and second convert original files into digital devices compatible formats.

Windows Media Video (WMV) was developed by Microsoft and these files are playable using Windows Media Player. These formats compose Microsoft's multimedia framework for media publication and distribution. They are compatible with Windows Media Player. But while the popular application supports playback for these formats, like most major media players, it does not enable users to duplicate DRM-protected media. Nonetheless, certain media players have enhanced functionality that can circumvent DRM protection.

There are several ways of achieving this task of removing drm from wmv and more. Here are several popular software for you to remove drm from wmv:

1. Freeme2
Freeme2 is a free and open source DRM remover. It is used to remove DRM from Windows Media audio and video files. freeme2 is a command line application. You need to learn how to use console applications to run it.

How to use freeme2 (drag-n-drop)
Drag-n-drop method is much easier than using command line console:
Put your DRM protected media files in the same folder as Freeme2.
Extract your license keys. You can do this with drmdbg. If you use drmdbg you can take the drm2-i.key file generated by drmdbg, rename it to drm2.key and copy it to the FreeMe2 folder.
Drag your sample.wma file onto FreeMe2.exe. It starts up and runs fine.

How to use freeme2 (command line console)
Put your DRM protected media files in the same folder as freeme2.
Run the Windows command console: Hit "Start"->Hit "Run..."->type CMD->Hit the "OK" button.
Then, once in the command console, chage the directiry by using the "cd" command to the directory where your FreeMe2 is located.
Extract your license keys. You can do this with drmdbg.
Type the following in the command line console: "freeme2" (without quotes) and press the Enter button.

2. Use the drm remove software here
Step1: Run program and the click the "Add" button in the main interface to add the WMV files. After that, you will see the files listed on the Preview pane.

Step2: Set the output settings by clicking the "Settings" button next to the "Video files to" area and press the "Browse" button to choose the output folder.

Step3: Start to remove DRM from MP4 by clicking the big round "Start" button. The removing process will last only a few minutes.

When the removing process is finished, you can play the WMV files on your computer. You see, the DRM Remove Software is very powerful.

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Nowadays, most of the protected video and music downloaded online like Windows Media Player iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster, Bearshare , Spiral Frog are all DRM files.

So, let us see what's DRM, DRM is short of Digital Rights Management - The anti consumer copy protection that prevents you from using music or movies in a way that suits you.

For example, if a DRM WMA you downloaded from WMP(windows media player) that has windows DRM, you can only play it back on a compatible device, so if every piece of music had windows DRM on it you would need to buy the same track on CD to listen in your CD player or car, as an iTunes download to play on your iPod, as a ms store download to play on your Zune etc, but since you paid for it once you shouldn't be forced to pay for it again and again and again, remove windows DRM and you can play it on your phone, iPod, Zune, PSP, CD player, pc, and anything else that you can listen to music on. There are many ways for you to remove drm from wma.

1. Remove drm from wma using a freeme2
Freeme2 is a free and open source DRM remover. It is used to remove DRM from Windows Media audio and video files. freeme2 is a command line application. You need to learn how to use console applications to run it.

How to use freeme2 (drag-n-drop)
Drag-n-drop method is much easier than using command line console:
Put your DRM protected media files in the same folder as Freeme2.
Extract your license keys. You can do this with drmdbg. If you use drmdbg you can take the drm2-i.key file generated by drmdbg, rename it to drm2.key and copy it to the FreeMe2 folder.
Drag your sample.wma file onto FreeMe2.exe. It starts up and runs fine.

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3. Remove drm from wma using AmalogWhole
AnalogWhole is a free Windows program available for removing DRM from WMA files. Any music that is playable in Windows Media Player can be re-recorded as an MP3 file. Just tell AnalogWhole where your music library is, and it will automatically re-record the files as an MP3 file. In addition, it will add the converted song to iTunes for you.

4. Remove drm from wma by burning and riping.
Actually, there is a common free method to WMA, M4P with 2 steps:
Step 1 Burn the DRM WMA, M4P to a CD.
Step 2 Rip the DRM WMA, M4P from CD to your computer as MP3 format , then the DRM should be removed from the WMA files.
But it's not very convenient that may wear out your CR-ROM, and It also needs a blank CD, a CD burner and a CD ripper to help you.