Another Realtime Workaround for WMA (DRM Protected) to MP3

Contributor Icon Contributed by Ski Date Icon April 26, 2005  
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Workaround for WMA(DRM Protected) to MP3 using Creative MediaSource.


I found a workaround for the DRM technology…..

What you need is the program Creative MediaSource…… within this program is a really useful recording tool which allows you to encode MP3’s according to “What U Hear” through the soundcard. I assume its used for recording mixes with a number of inputs. You load the downloaded WMA files of a certain Album into the play list and hit record. It makes a big mp3 of the entire Album which can easily be cut up.

I just downloaded 600+ songs last night and already have about 100 of those now in mp3.
The only problem is time, as you have to encode in realtime.

Anyway, another trick your visitors might be able to use.

Hope this helps.

Peace

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  • Anonymous
    wma file burned into cd. rip cd to mp3 using nero 6 its faster but its not free.
    cd's cost money. I have 10856 songs on my computer and most will stay wma. thanks
  • Anonymous
    This converts the song to analog before recording. Not a good method.
  • DTSBear
    TuneBite also does WMA DRM Conversion using the same technique.
  • Anonymous
    yes it does, but with a software like Tunebite I can hardly hear the quality loss and the greateast advantage is that the whole process is way faster, although it does it real time, but u don't need a CD to write on and it enters the ID tags automatically
  • narn
    My version of Tunebite stopped working after I cancelled the Napster membership. Does this work now?
  • Anonymous
    <ul id="quote"><h6>narn wrote:</h6>My version of Tunebite stopped working after I cancelled the Napster membership. Does this work now?</ul>

    Well the trick is that you must be able to play the songs from Napster in order to re-record them with Tunebite, thus getting rid in a legal way of the DRM protection :wink:
  • Anonymous
    <ul id="quote"><h6>narn wrote:</h6>My version of Tunebite stopped working after I cancelled the Napster membership. Does this work now?</ul>

    To make it clear, napster files can be listened as long as you pay the subscrition, and if you didn't convert the files when you had the subscription active, then you can't use them anymore now :(
  • Anonymous
    Apple should have removed the DRM control long long time ago! How can we convert DRM protected music to unprotected WAV, MP3 or WMA? This problem sucks many iTunes users like me. I tried both NoteBurner(http://www.noteburner.com) and TuneBite(http://www.tunebite.com). These two software can convert WMA or even protected itunes music (M4P) to MP3. They worked perfectly on my computer. The only difference between TuneBite and NoteBurner is that TuneBite uses recording technique while NoteBurner burns music onto a virtual CD-R. I cannot tell any difference in terms of the music quality. But I would agree that NoteBurner is faster and more reliable than TuneBite. I recommend NoteBurner. Cheers!
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