Remove DRM for Cowon iAudio U5

Cowon iAudio U5

Cowon America is now shipping its new iAudio U5 MP3 player. The Cowon iAudio U5 includes a 1.8-inch TFT LCD, an FM radio with recording capability, a voice recorder, an alarm clock/sleep timer, Cowon's extensive JetEffect suite of custom EQ controls, and plays MP3, WMA, DRM protected WMA and WAV files. After installing a firmware v.3.XX, Cowon iAudio U5 can also support playback of OGG and FLAC audio formats. The Cowon iAudio U5 lacks video playback support or memory expansion. The Cowon iAudio U5 comes in both 4GB (white) and 8GB (black) capacities, it may be suitable for people who prefer a no-frills device with a sleek design. Many people buy music from iTunes store, can people play iTunes music on Cowon iAudio U5?

The answer is not, iTunes music are AAC format which is not supported by Cowon iAudio U5. The unprotected AAC files in M4A extension can be easily converted to MP3 for Cowon iAudio U5, but the others -- DRM protected M4P songs and M4B audio books can't. We need to remove DRM first.

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What is DRM?

DRM stands for Digital Rights Management, but many people like to call it Digital Restrictions Management because it's giving people more and more restrictions while the world should become more and more convenient. DRM is access control technologies to limit usage of digital media or devices. The DRM protected songs can be only playable on iPod or iPhone and not for other digital audio players such as the Cowon iAudio U5.

The Cowon iAudio U5 is a popular MP4 Players, many people are using iAudio U5 for listening to music.

How to remove DRM for Cowon iAudio U5?

In fact, there are only few programs that can remove DRM. Most these programs are using sound recording technology. They play the iTunes songs and the programs records the audio streams on the sound card in background. The other way is to burn the songs into an audio CD disc and then rip the CD to MP3 in iTunes or other formats with other CD rippers. Both of them are simple, but long-waiting.

So far, Noteburner is the best program for removing DRM. It simulates burning and ripping process with a virtual CD burner.

Remove DRM for Cowon iAudio U5 with Noteburner

Noteburner installs a virtual CD burner on your computer, and it can act as a cd burner and audio CD ripper. Before ripping, you do as everything as you are burning a real CD, for Noteburner, you are burning a virtual CD. What you need to do is to set Noteburner's virtual CD burner as the default CD burner in iTunes for removing DRM of iTunes music.

After the iTunes songs are burned to the virtual CD burner, Noteburner will start ripping. All the songs in the virtual CD burner will be ripped to MP3 or other output formats including AAC, WMA, OGG, WAV and FLAC. For Cowon iAudio U5, you can use MP3 as output format. If you have installed the firmware and the Cowon iAudio 5 has supported OGG and FLAC, you can also use OGG as output format. FLAC is ok, however, it's not recommended, since iTunes music are lossy compressed while the FLAC is lossless audio files.

Noteburner didn't crack the DRM. You can't remove DRM of iTunes music if you don't have a license or you are not authorized. Noteburner bypasses the DRM only if you are allowed to play the iTunes music.

Noteburner will be the best choice to remove DRM for your iAudio U5.

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