I take that back.

DRmare Audio Converter 2.3.0 for Windows DOES appear to be an audio file format converter, including input audio files that have no DRM, and output files seem playable on all my players.

So, YES, this is a format-converter, and a DRM remover, separate and independent features.

So far, so good.

NOT as smart as FLACsquisher that can scan a whole directory schema for matching files and converted files and ONLY convert new and unconverted files.

But MANUALLY selecting input and output locations, and organizing things one's self.

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In response to [ TK],

... um, I don't know nor care, because I don't have or use DRM-sourced music, I only want to convert to ( the best quality ) MP3, for playability across all my music software and devices.

Someone else will have to inspect how faithful is any result, sorry.
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TK,

Yes, it REQUIRES iTunes desktop to be installed. The second you launch the software, it searches for your iTunes install. I did not have it installed and it promptly complained that it could not find the install and wanted me to tell it where it was installed. Since I have a bunch of old music from iTunes that I wanted to remove the DRM and convert, I downloaded and installed iTunes. Once installed, the software was happy.

When you launch Audio Converter, it automatically launches iTunes at the same time. Audio Convert has a nice single-button you click and it adds your entire iTunes library to the queue to be converted. I told it to convert, and nothing happened. It said it was running, but was doing nothing. I eventually figured it out; I had to sign into my Apple account in iTunes and authorize the PC on my account. After that, everything went smoothly.

Audio Converter seems to somehow play back your music at a super fast speed in iTunes, and must capture it during that playback. It then creates an MP3 file of the captured audio. Either way it works for the most part. I did have to make like 8 conversion runs because iTunes kept crashing and interrupting the conversion process. Thankfully Audio Converter keeps tract of the music that has already been converted so when iTunes crashed, I could close Audio Converter and relaunch it, add my library back in, selecting the check box to hide the music that had already been converted, and re-queue and convert again.

That's silly. I used it just fine. But evidently, you only use software with colors you like. LOL!

In response to [ Bibby ], yellow-on-black was just an example, the goal is discreet contrast so items are readable and identifiable, and that's very hard to do with gray on white on display screens with unknown resolution, contrast, and angle of view.
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In response to [ Jeff ], DRmare Audio Converter 2.3.0 for Windows does not have and DRM digital rights management locks, encryption, or tethering, so it can be copied anywhere without failure or prohibition from automatic locks.

The way music used to be when we bought a phonograph album, cassette, or CD.
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We would prefer to find a program that could remove your comments from the internet.

Now now, [ TK ], copyright owners have no superior rights over people's rights to make in-house copies for their own use in house.

DRM, however, is significant disrespect from copyright owners against the legally equal rights of people in their homes to freely and legally do what they want with whatever arrives in their homes.

We've been through this before - if you obtain a phonograph record of my copyright work, I have no superior authority or right to claim copyright damages if you play it backward, make a cassette copy, break it, melt it to mold into an ashtray, mount a clock mechanism in it and put it on your wall, and so on.

There's nothing illegal or nefarious about DRmare Audio Converter 2.3.0 for Windows or our use of it in house on stuff we have in house.

But thanks for reminding us that copyright owners live in the 1900s and refuse to join the modern world and develop modern value-added copyright material beyond digital reproduction.

Orchestra's sued piano roll makers, too.
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Now now, [ TK ], copyright owners have no superior rights over people's rights to make in-house copies for their own use in house.

DRM, however, is significant disrespect from copyright owners against the legally equal rights of people in their homes to freely and legally do what they want with whatever arrives in their homes.

And today's giveaway, DRmare Audio Converter 2.3.0 for Windows, offers to help us exercise fair use for our own personal use in our own homes.

We've been through this before - if you obtain a phonograph record of my copyright work, I have no superior authority or right to claim copyright damages if you play it backward, make a cassette copy, break it, melt it to mold into an ashtray, mount a clock mechanism in it and put it on your wall, and so on.

There's nothing illegal or nefarious about DRmare Audio Converter 2.3.0 for Windows or our use of it on stuff we already have in our own possession.

But thanks for reminding us that copyright owners live in the 1900s and refuse to join the modern world and develop modern value-added copyright material beyond digital reproduction.

Orchestra's sued piano roll makers, too.
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In response to [ TK ], and DRM jurisdiction enforcement collapses inside our own homes, where "... if you obtain a phonograph record of my copyright work, I have no superior authority or right to claim copyright damages if you play it backward, make a cassette copy, break it, melt it to mold into an ashtray, mount a clock mechanism in it and put it on your wall, and so on ..."

The reason there are no test cases is because there are not cases to test.

More importantly, and more on point, the dialog has been more a moral one of "... how dare you copy something without permission?!? ..." which has nothing to do with "pirating" IP intellectual property theft and selling fakes.

A significant part of legal decisions has been the financial impact on the copyright holder, and in our own homes, there is none.

GOTD offerings such as DRmare Audio Converter 2.3.0 for Windows are safe to use in our own homes - and I check everything for functional safety at VirusTotal too.
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PS - If you can find an appropriate Spotify TOS Terms Of Service, read it, or read them all, to assess their boundaries yourself, the one I found is rated at [ wordcounter. net ] as college level and half an hour to 45 minutes just to read, no comment on how long it takes understand, as anything above a 4th grade level usually requires multiple re-reading of inner content and total content in order to develop a functional understanding, and then there are arguments over ambiguity and jurisdiction that would take even longer ... wanna listen to some background music while working on this?
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In response to [ TK ],

So, according to you, a phonograph recording is a bad analogy to in-home reuse of Spotify-sourced IP intellectual property ...

... but murder is a good analogy ... to in-home reuse of Spotify-sourced IP intellectual property.

Murder, really?

And then you add, so to speak, denying Spotify their ad revenue, unaware of them getting their ad revenue before anyone even experiences their product, soft of like tearing out advertising from Oprah magazine to then read the remaining 4 pages of content - Oprah has already been paid by their advertisers, and we are free to ignore, even tear out the advertising and toss it, or in the age of digital broadcast, filter it and eliminate it entirely.

Because in our home, other people's copyright rights have no superior jurisdiction.

And I did read Spotify's TOS, no teacher required or appropriate, but reviewing specific court arguments and decisions helps contextualize, along with the US Constitution, the Berne Convention treaties, and so on..

I doubt you are basing your presentation on Spotify's TOS, court cases, or international treaties.

Regardless, DRmare Audio Converter 2.3.0 for Windows and GOTD seem to be offering useful programs for us to explore and give feedback on.

I've shared mine.

What is your experience of DRmare Audio Converter 2.3.0 for Windows?
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In response to [ JohnH ], correct, vendors sometimes limit the duration of their offering, thereby declining to actually give away the "product", but instead giving away "access" to the product for a limited time.

"Giveaway" means something different to each new generation of marketers.

One wonders in return if we can charge the vendor for feedback after the expiration of the trial period, instead of giving away our feedback, as we otherwise so willingly do here at GOTD.

What do you think, folks, should GOTD institute a pay-for feedback after the trial period, where we get a prorated portion of advertising revenue income form the webpage we contribute to IF the vendor on that webpage no longer is offering what is on the webpage free?

How about a GOTD Partner Program ( like on Quora - see https ://www. patchesoft. com/quora-partner-program )
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Fine then...the rest of us will enjoy a FULL COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE for half a year while you stomp your foot. LOL!