How to keep my CD-ripped music DRM free in Apple Music Library?

iMore has a great article listing the differences:

http://www.imore.com/apple-music-vs-itunes-match-whats-difference

Apple Music does everything iTunes Match (now: iCloud Music Library) does with one caveat: FairPlay DRM.

DRM for tracks you've already purchased and/or ripped is the only drawback* I see to Apple Music; however, if you have both iTunes Match and Apple Music, then you get the benefits of each, and your ripped music remains DRM-free.

*I don't see this as a "show stopper" but I can see how some people might. I'm guessing this was a concession to RIAA but that's my conjecture.

Hi Oso,

I think that the new DRM prevents you from syncing the music to non-WiFi devices [1]. Practically making music unavailable when there is no network available. So driving in countryside, no music. It also makes old devices quite useless.

[1] I can't transfer Apple Music to iPod Nano

OK - the music that you rip to your own Mac through iTunes never gets DRM applied to the files.

The files that get the DRM applied are music you select from Apple Music - that you don't own - and download them to your Mac. This is because if you cancel your Apple Music subscription, you don't have the right to listen to those tracks again.

Also, if you use iCloud Music Library to download tracks to other devices - another Mac/PC iTunes Library or an iOS device - THOSE files will be downloaded as mP4 files with DRM. Guess it has something to do with the way that ICML is set up to work - any tracks that are downloaded to a different computer or iOS device are sent in an DRM version if they were matched by Apple Music. (One of the advantages of iTunes Match over ICML is the fact that the files are matched to the iTunes Store (no DRM) as opposed to Apple Music (has DRM).