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Old 12-13-2005, 08:33 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Protected WMA help

So I downloaded a song from MSNMusic and turns out they did the worst of all possible things they could have done and made all the songs you download wmas and worse yet protected wmas. I use all of my files in iTunes since I have an iPod. I can't use a protected WMA in iTunes.

So my question is: is there anyway to manipulate this file to convert it to AAC format? iTunes won't do it because it can't handle protected WMAs.


any and all help is greatly appreciated.
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Old 12-13-2005, 09:40 PM   #2 (permalink)
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You could play it,
and record to .wav
with a seperate program

some other ideas:
http://virtuosa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=363
http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=78454
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Old 12-13-2005, 09:56 PM   #3 (permalink)
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You could play it,
and record to .wav
with a seperate program

some other ideas:
http://virtuosa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=363
http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=78454

thanks for the help. I read the first thread and went "d'oh!" because i didn't even think of the burning it to a CD and then re-ripping it.
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Old 12-13-2005, 10:56 PM   #4 (permalink)
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thanks for the help. I read the first thread and went "d'oh!" because i didn't even think of the burning it to a CD and then re-ripping it.
I'm no expert but from what I have read doing this will reduce the quality considerably. I wish the industry would use the MP3 format whenever possible since they play almost everywhere.
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Old 12-13-2005, 11:11 PM   #5 (permalink)
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thanks for the help. I read the first thread and went "d'oh!" because i didn't even think of the burning it to a CD and then re-ripping it.
Kind of a waste isn't it? You got a itune but what the hell are you gonna use the CD for? Never?
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Old 12-13-2005, 11:17 PM   #6 (permalink)
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I'd just do what alpha phi said. Grab a half-decent recording suite, play the song and record it back. No quality loss and you can encode it to the format of your choice.
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Old 12-14-2005, 07:47 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Kind of a waste isn't it? You got a itune but what the hell are you gonna use the CD for? Never?

i'm going to use it to burn it then rip it. granted it's a waste of a CD but CDs are approximately dirt cheap.
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Old 12-14-2005, 11:49 PM   #8 (permalink)
 
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there should be a sticky for extracting/recording audio from copy protected formats (DVDs included)
it seems to come up rather often
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