remove itunes video drm without converting

If you subscribe to iTunes Match, when you delete the original song file from your iTunes library for any song that matches, you DO get back a 256 kbps AAC song file with no DRM when you download it from your iCloud music library. When you download the song again from the Purchased screen, you get back the same song file, because that's what you purchased. However, during the early years of iTunes Store, songs were sold with DRM in 128 kbps AAC format. This has been true since Apple was allowed to offer songs using the 256 kbps 'iTunes Plus' AAC format, quite a few years ago. New song purchases from iTunes Store do not use DRM. This is a problem, since it is my understanding that AAC Protection is no longer supposed to be used by iTunes. Then, right click on selection, and Download. Select them all at once on the song list, right-click on selection, and Remove Download. If it works for one of the songs, sort your song list by the Kind column, so that all of the Protected AAC audio file songs appear together on the list. It should be 256 kbps AAC no DRM, for any matched song (including 128 kbps protected).

Click it to download the song from your iCloud music library (which is different from downloading from Purchased screen). The song remains on the song list, but it now has a download button (cloud symbol with down-arrow) in the iCloud Download column. Select option to send song's file to the Trash.

On your library song list, right-click on a song (that has this problem) and select Remove Download (not Delete). I like to put it next to the song name column. If you don't see the iCloud Download column, make it visible (it has a 'cloud' symbol in its heading). Show your music library using the Songs view (to show a plain list of songs with columns). If you have iTunes Match, your iTunes music library is showing you your iCloud music library. If you are using the Purchased screen to download the song again (which is how you described it), try doing the download from your iCloud music library.

Remove itunes video drm without converting