Aren't they already in mp3 format?

Try burning them to an audio cd, this will convert the files to .wav then reload them on your computer as you would a normal cd. Perhaps then you can bypass the security features.

There's an app called TuneBite that doesn't remove the copy protection, rather plays a M4P on iTunes at a fast rate and records it, encoding it into an MP3. I don't know if it works with WMA files, but it may be worth a shot.

It's totally legitimate and legal, but I understand if any of the mods want to remove this post for any reason.

That was me, obviously.

It's a piece of piss, just click "Conversion" and there's a pretty easy user interface which pops up; you can specify which files to load in, and what to do with them once they're there - what format to export in, how to name the exported files, where to put them etc. You can do it in batches, so just tell it to load in everything you want to convert, and then go and have a cup of tea or something.

Don't forget to play the songs first in WMP to unlock the licences, otherwise JetAudio won't convert them, it will just look at them blankly. You don't have to listen to the whole thing - just load them up, click "play", and let it download the licence / "acquire product key" or whatever it says. Once it's done, just forward to the next one.

Thing is, unlike getting commercially-available stuff from filesharing services - which, however you want to cut it, and however justified you think it is, is still stealing at the end of the day - DRM removal is nothing of the sort.

It's simply an unhelpful idea created to save some executive's job somewhere; it doesn't reduce piracy, it certainly doesn't increase sales, it simply annoys legitimate customers. I find the major labels' attempts to "help" governments draft clumsy legislation utterly repugnant, and I object in the strongest possible terms to being branded in the same basket as a filesharing pirate because I want to listen to legally bought music on my mp3 player instead of my home computer.

If someone wants to bring an action to recover damages from someone who's been filesharing, fair enough. If they want to try and bring that action because they think that despite the "fair use" caveats already built into the law it's wrong that I want to play the music I LEGALLY BOUGHT on my iRiver, I welcome their attempt and will happily see them in court, cheers. Of course, no such case will ever be brought, because the music industry has yet to settle on what you're buying when you buy a record - whether you're buying a licence to listen to a piece of music (in which case copying it far and wide for your own use is fine), or the physical CD itself (in which case copying it is indeed forbidden, but (a) what the hell are you then buying on a download service, and (b) since they trot out this argument every time the price of albums is complained about, then albums should cost a maximum of about six pounds).

I think it's the former. So, if I could copy a CD onto tape to listen to in my car in 1990, I should be able to copy a CD onto MP3 to listen to on my Walkman in 2006, and I'd like to see the case law that says otherwise, please.

Oh yeah, and every single DRM-encrusted song I've ever bought through Microsoft's own MSN Music Store over the last 2 years has been cleansed with JetAudio, with no ill effects thus far. JetAudio doesn't alter the original file, it just makes DRM-free copies for your own fair use, so if the Microsoft Police want to go nuts on those originals, they're quite welcome.

steve, jetaudio wont ripp drmed wma for me.

yeah, the new version of jetAudio won't bypass DRN-protected files. i've tried two different sources (7digital and another site) and i couldn't get it to convert. i eventually got all the reissues again from soulseek, so for anyone that's bought the songs and want to listen to them your iPod, they're up. (for those of you that have not bought them, buy them, then download them illegally so you can listen to them...)

The answer is yes you can, though not the one I've got installed here (v5.1) - just versions before and since. Give them a whirl, maybe? Useful stuff, if they work.

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Staying OT in the land of DRM once more, anyone else used "FairUse4WM"?

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=114916&page=19

Assuming you have a working licence, this will remove DRM.



BR
JN

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Staying OT in the land of DRM once more, anyone else used "FairUse4WM"?

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=114916&page=19

Assuming you have a working licence, this will remove DRM.



BR
JN

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Sadly it didn't work for me, nice idea though!

 

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