Comments on: Updated: Using Musicmatch Jukebox to Bypass DRM in Napster, Virgin, etc.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 17 May 2005 09:04:42 +0000

trying this increased sampling method will probably cause a decrease in quality more than a real time conversion. the problem is a too technically advanced for this forum, but it has to do with the behavior of signals after sampling and how sampling affects the spectrum. if you speed up the playback, you’re already loosing quality since it’s not an analog file to begin with. speeding up playback is much different in the digital world than it is with a tape or record player. you skip bytes rather than increase the speed in which the bytes are read. also, by increasing the sampling rate, you’re more likely to increase the amount of noise in the audio track. it’s a great theory, but unfortunately would only work if the source was pure analog.

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Sun, 15 May 2005 16:12:19 +0000

This is an intriguing possibility. I think I have the basic recipe for how to do this, can someone look this recipe over and make corrections please? Since I don’t currently have one of the sound cards that support a 192khz sampling rate I just assume my current option of 48khz max would increase to 192 max if one were installed. Correct?

I’m going to use the examples of Windows Media Player as the player and TotalRecorder as the capture program because that’s what I have but this should work with other programs that have similar capabilities. Anyway as I see it the recipe would be:

1. Open WMP and Rack up all the songs you want to play as a playlist in WMP (drag them all to the playlist window from their folder).
2. Go to the WMP View menu, point to Enhancements, and then click Play Speed Settings, then in the Enhancements pane, move the Play Speed slider to right to 4.0
3. Open Total Recorder and go to “recording source and parameters” and set the recording rate to the type of file you want WMA, MP3 whatever and the kbps to what you normally would (say 128 or 192) and THEN make sure the khz is set to 4 times the usual rate you would have used (if normally 48, set to 192).
4. Set the recording speed in Total Recorder to a rate of 4 times normal speed.
5. Set the recording program to record
6. Play the playlist in WMP

Is this right? I know I left out some of the usual setup steps but I’m trying to focus on the specific steps necessary to increase the speed.

Thanks.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 15 May 2005 13:16:34 +0000

Anonymous wrote:

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However, most sound cards cannot sample above 48kHz, and good quality digital files are usually 44.1kHz or so. So unless you have a sound card that can sample at least 88kHz, you are SOL.

Good idea though.

For $100 bucks you can get an Emu 121m or one of the Creative Labs cards that support 192khz sampling rate.

By: Ya Boy

Ya Boy — Sun, 15 May 2005 13:13:29 +0000

Should of read the last posts and I’ve would’ve known not to try the conversion!!! Anyway, I cant unistall or play mmjb. The error I get when trying to start is “The prodecure entry point aac_codec_register could not be located in the dynamic link library xaudio.dll” and when trying to unistall I get uninst.isu is not valid or data is corrupt. I’ve tried re-installing and uninstalling, but that didn’t work. Any suggestions?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 13 May 2005 23:35:56 +0000

just a thought…..if i played a song 4x faster than normal and increased my sampling rate 4x, would i still lose audio quality?

You would not lost quality. However, most sound cards cannot sample above 48kHz, and good quality digital files are usually 44.1kHz or so. So unless you have a sound card that can sample at least 88kHz, you are SOL.

Good idea though.

By: naps

naps — Fri, 13 May 2005 15:58:18 +0000

it seems like the only way to do it now is through the sound card. this is too time consuming.

just a thought…..if i played a song 4x faster than normal and increased my sampling rate 4x, would i still lose audio quality?

any comments?

By: naps

naps — Fri, 13 May 2005 15:42:18 +0000

now that mmjb is out of the question…..any new tricks?

By: mor_f

mor_f — Thu, 12 May 2005 11:09:18 +0000

i think what bothers me the most about this whole DRM thing is….

the RIAA is taking away our ownership of the music even if it is BOUGHT
the last time i checked i thought once I bought something, i paid all of the fees necessary to do whatever the hell I wanted with the material. give me a user code on all of my devices that gets burned into the firmware…whatever it takes. BUT when i purchase a song, I want to be able to put it on all of my media players. i do not like the idea of having to logon to the internet to regain permission to play a damn song.

it sucks… the musicians make the music, sell the music to the music industry, in return make a dime for every dollar earned by the industry

hell, the musicians ought to sell their own music online directly to the consumer and squeeze the fat-cats out of the deal entirely.

By: Lance

Lance — Thu, 12 May 2005 08:57:35 +0000

sucks, this method no longer works. napster fixed this problem and now whenever you try to convert them with this method it just locks up and doesn’t do anything :(

hopefully there is another way 8)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 May 2005 05:52:40 +0000

i don’t think that it’s a change in the program itself. i believe that it’s an MS update to the registry or operating system files. I unplugged my computer from the net, uninstalled the software and made sure to delete everything manually that wasn’t removed. i reinstalled the software following the directiongs. Still locks up….