DRM & Windows 10

Lavinia · 06-03-2016 10:54AM #1

Hi, I presume this question pops up every so often, but it is really annoying issue.

I have some wma music files that were transferred from legally purchased CD (I do not have CD anymore as my ex husband took it) but I cannot play that album as it gives the ANCIENT message about licence eg drm protection that I cannot do anything about.
I tried to convert these wmas to mp3 but even the conversion is not permitted.
Tried few of the so-called drm removal tools they did no job whatsoever.

Any help would be much appreciated.

(the album is Yello and Essentials from 1992)

06-03-2016 12:51PM

Lavinia wrote: »

Hi, I presume this question pops up every so often, but it is really annoying issue.

I have some wma music files that were transferred from legally purchased CD (I do not have CD anymore as my ex husband took it) but I cannot play that album as it gives the ANCIENT message about licence eg drm protection that I cannot do anything about.
I tried to convert these wmas to mp3 but even the conversion is not permitted.
Tried few of the so-called drm removal tools they did no job whatsoever.

Any help would be much appreciated.

(the album is Yello and Essentials from 1992)

Can you try downloading audacity and see can you import the music?

Then possibly you could convert it from there and remove the DRM?

Lavinia · 06-03-2016 12:57PM

Thanks for your reply Fieldog, I haven't tried that, I see I need special drivers for Windows 10 (10.1) so will give it a go and let you know if that worked or not. It is such a nuisance...

Edit: It says "Audacity does not yet have full support for Windows 10 due to driver requirements." but I will try anyway.. see if it supports anything..

Lavinia · 06-03-2016 01:06PM

Well no it does not work as it does not support wma files at all:

"Audacity is an open source, cross-platform audio editor and recorder. Audacity can record and play sounds and import and export WAV, AIFF, MP3, and OGG files."

scamalert · 06-03-2016 01:10PM

can you just download them of the torrent ? were speaking here of 200megs

or just use some software to download from youtube.

06-03-2016 01:10PM

Give this a go then :

http://lifehacker.com/234061/convert-drm-protected-wma-files-to-unprotected-mp3s

Lavinia · 06-03-2016 01:23PM

scamalert wrote: »

can you just download them of the torrent ? were speaking here of 200megs or just use some software to download from youtube.

ure I could but I have other albums too that are the same so you know, those are legally purchased cds so I am so puzzled by this so want to find a way around - if in any way possible.
(btw this particular album is hard to find and I love it very much)

Fieldog wrote: »

Give this a go then :

http://lifehacker.com/234061/convert-drm-protected-wma-files-to-unprotected-mp3s

yes I tried that one it did not work, it starts and then fires the same message as i attached in the first post..

PS. Will give torrent a go.. found only flac format and oh yes I am not a fan of these...

schaffer1969 · 06-03-2016 01:24PM

Lavinia wrote: »

PS. Will give torrent a go.. found only flac format and oh yes I am not a fan of these...

FLAC will convert to MP3 very easily

scamalert · 06-03-2016 01:25PM

I cant see difference really between getting it downloaded,or trying to remove security-that's why suggested youtube since if its rare album you might need to download songs one by one.

Lavinia · 06-03-2016 01:27PM

schaffer1969 wrote: »

FLAC will convert to MP3 very easily

any tool to recommend for this? thanks

Lavinia · 06-03-2016 01:28PM

scamalert wrote: »

I cant see difference really between getting it downloaded,or trying to remove security-that's why suggested youtube since if its rare album you might need to download songs one by one.

Well it is just wasting time (as I feel) downloading song by song of albums I already have and paid for..
But it seems there is no way around this Microsoft

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) pardon me saying, so no real other options there..

06-03-2016 01:28PM

Lavinia wrote: »

any tool to recommend for this? thanks

Handbrake or XMedia Recode.

Lavinia · 06-03-2016 01:31PM

Karsini wrote: »

Handbrake or XMedia Recode.

Thanks will try those : )

I cannot believe this DRM thing....
so I suppose since I paid for that music already I should not feel guilty if downloading it from torrent or anywhere else in order to listen to it :rolleyes:

06-03-2016 01:38PM

Lavinia wrote: »

Thanks will try those : )

I cannot believe this DRM thing....
so I suppose since I paid for that music already I should not feel guilty if downloading it from torrent or anywhere else in order to listen to it :rolleyes:

Technically you own the music so in this instance illegal downloading is the way to go....

You should keep it as a FLAC file though and play with VLC, much better quality than MP3 if encoded correctly....

schaffer1969 · 06-03-2016 02:43PM

Fieldog wrote: »

Technically you own the music so in this instance illegal downloading is the way to go....

You should keep it as a FLAC file though and play with VLC, much better quality than MP3 if encoded correctly....

Technically she doesn't own the music any more. If the OP's ex has the cd he does.
But if we're down to semantics downloading isn't going to make that much of a difference legally

Lavinia · 06-03-2016 03:00PM

schaffer1969 wrote: »

Technically she doesn't own the music any more. If the OP's ex has the cd he does.
But if we're down to semantics downloading isn't going to make that much of a difference legally

Hahah yes I guess you are right even we bought it together :pac:

But yes he took it as I said I transferred it to my comp. Turned out I cannot play it

Lavinia · 06-03-2016 04:26PM

Karsini wrote: »

Handbrake or XMedia Recode.

Fieldog wrote: »

You should keep it as a FLAC file though and play with VLC, much better quality than MP3 if encoded correctly....

Yes I actually do not mind flac as a file type - but more so that it means usually that all songs are in one continuous file. So since conversion would not "undo the merger" :d I will keep it as is..

Thanks guys

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schaffer1969 · 06-03-2016 04:56PM

Lavinia wrote: »

Yes I actually do not mind flac as a file type - but more so that it means usually that all songs are in one continuous file. So since conversion would not "undo the merger" :d I will keep it as is..

Thanks guys .

If it is one file then there should be a cue file with it.
The following tool "CUE Splitter" will split up the FLAC into individual FLAC files using this file.

http://www.medieval.it/cuesplitter-pc/menu-id-71.html

Lavinia · 06-03-2016 04:57PM

schaffer1969 wrote: »

If it is one file then there should be a cue file with it.
The following tool "CUE Splitter" will split up the FLAC into individual FLAC files using this file.

http://www.medieval.it/cuesplitter-pc/menu-id-71.html

wow cool, will give that a go too

thanks a mil!

Lavinia · 09-03-2016 10:29AM

Btw just to say schaffer1969 that that worked, so I have the music now that I could not play. Feels good so thanks everyone.

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