Manual Removal of Napster DRM with Nero Wave Editor

Contributor Icon Contributed by RichLss396 Date Icon April 8, 2005  
Tag Icon Tagged: Windows

converting protected WMA files to unprotected mp3’s


1. place all the files that you wish to convert in your WMA playlist

2. Connect your audio-out cable to your audio-in input

3. open a blank nero Wave Editor file (or possibly any other recorder)

4. start recording then start your playlist ( make sure its not on shuffle or repeat)

5. go away, to work or whatever (depends how how many songs your converting)

6. when you return stop the recording and go to the beginning ( you will clearly be able to see where each song ends and begins (might have to zoom in if you have a lot of songs)

7. save the file, then crop each individual song and save them one by one as mp3’s with their song name in a new folder.

8. Delete all the protected napster songs

9. there ya go all done. Sure it takes some time but definatly works.

Enjoy!!

Rich

Previous recipe | Next recipe |
 
  • Brandon Martinez
    http://www.muvaudio.com/ does about the same thing in a batch mode
  • narn
    I culdn't ge either of these to work once I canceled the napster membership. Any suggestions?
  • Anonymous
    Likely you would have to convert the songs while your napster subscription is active. The drm is applied server side, so unless it is just a flag (instructing the player to play/not play) the file.. there is no ready way to unencrypt the protected files. If you subscribed to Napster again, you could play the files again and rip them with this method before you cancel your Napster sub.
  • Anonymous
    Audacity works great for this as well. Find it at http://www.download.com
  • Anonymous
    I found a program using the Virtual CD-RW method to convert protected music to unprotected formats on www.download.com . The program name is NoteBurner Audio Converter (http://www.download.com/NoteBurner/3000-2170_4-...) . It worked perfectly on my computer converting my purchased M4P music collection to a virtual CD-R. I cannot tell any difference between the original and converted music in terms of the music quality. And I would agree that NoteBurner is super faster and reliable.
blog comments powered by Disqus