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WMA Owned Me

Nebor

Nebor

Lifer
So I dusted off one of my MP3 players to load it up with songs. It's one of those chapstick sized 256mb flash players. I begin by reviewing the songs on there to see what I want to keep. Well, there's title and artist for most of the songs, except for a few. So for those, I go to transfer them to my PC to listen to them: "Cannot Copy to PC, Copyright Restricted."

All my music is 100% legal and legit, paid for and in WMA format. Kinda irks me a little. I blame all the people out there stealing music. If not for them, stuff like this wouldn't be necessary.
 
Crap, also because they're WMA the MP3 player's software won't compress them. They're all 162kbps or something, and that makes them pretty big files. Anyone know of software that will compress WMAs en mass for me?
 
Originally posted by: Nebor
Crap, also because they're WMA the MP3 player's software won't compress them. They're all 162kbps or something, and that makes them pretty big files. Anyone know of software that will compress WMAs en mass for me?
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1. You will lose quality...
2. dBpowerAMP will take care of it easily as long as you get all the codecs.
3. You currently can't bypass the DRM...without actually having access to the file🙁
 
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: Nebor
Crap, also because they're WMA the MP3 player's software won't compress them. They're all 162kbps or something, and that makes them pretty big files. Anyone know of software that will compress WMAs en mass for me?
Click to expand...

1. You will lose quality...
2. dBpowerAMP will take care of it easily as long as you get all the codecs.
3. You currently can't bypass the DRM...without actually having access to the file🙁
Click to expand...

I have all the original files on my PC. Ripped to WMA from CDs via WMP9. I have 2 copies of every song, one version in lossless for home use and one version in 162kbps for portables. But since the portable I'm taking with me is pretty low capacity, I'd like to compress the songs I'm aware that quality will be lost.

So do I already have the codecs...?
 
Originally posted by: Nebor
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: Nebor
Crap, also because they're WMA the MP3 player's software won't compress them. They're all 162kbps or something, and that makes them pretty big files. Anyone know of software that will compress WMAs en mass for me?
Click to expand...

1. You will lose quality...
2. dBpowerAMP will take care of it easily as long as you get all the codecs.
3. You currently can't bypass the DRM...without actually having access to the file🙁
Click to expand...

I have all the original files on my PC. Ripped to WMA from CDs via WMP9. I have 2 copies of every song, one version in lossless for home use and one version in 162kbps for portables. But since the portable I'm taking with me is pretty low capacity, I'd like to compress the songs I'm aware that quality will be lost.

So do I already have the codecs...?
Click to expand...

Should have turned off DRM.
 
Originally posted by: Nebor
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: Nebor
Crap, also because they're WMA the MP3 player's software won't compress them. They're all 162kbps or something, and that makes them pretty big files. Anyone know of software that will compress WMAs en mass for me?
Click to expand...

1. You will lose quality...
2. dBpowerAMP will take care of it easily as long as you get all the codecs.
3. You currently can't bypass the DRM...without actually having access to the file🙁
Click to expand...

I have all the original files on my PC. Ripped to WMA from CDs via WMP9. I have 2 copies of every song, one version in lossless for home use and one version in 162kbps for portables. But since the portable I'm taking with me is pretty low capacity, I'd like to compress the songs I'm aware that quality will be lost.

So do I already have the codecs...?
Click to expand...

Either way, go the the "codec central" part of the dBpoweramp site and download all of the windows media 9 stuff. Also, for future reference, make sure that you UNCHECK "add copy protection" in WMP9/10. IIRC though, WMP10 has it off by default and/or asks you whether you want to disable it during the installation.
 
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: Nebor
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: Nebor
Crap, also because they're WMA the MP3 player's software won't compress them. They're all 162kbps or something, and that makes them pretty big files. Anyone know of software that will compress WMAs en mass for me?
Click to expand...

1. You will lose quality...
2. dBpowerAMP will take care of it easily as long as you get all the codecs.
3. You currently can't bypass the DRM...without actually having access to the file🙁
Click to expand...

I have all the original files on my PC. Ripped to WMA from CDs via WMP9. I have 2 copies of every song, one version in lossless for home use and one version in 162kbps for portables. But since the portable I'm taking with me is pretty low capacity, I'd like to compress the songs I'm aware that quality will be lost.

So do I already have the codecs...?
Click to expand...

Either way, go the the "codec central" part of the dBpoweramp site and download all of the windows media 9 stuff. Also, for future reference, make sure that you UNCHECK "add copy protection" in WMP9/10. IIRC though, WMP10 has it off by default and/or asks you whether you want to disable it during the installation.
Click to expand...

it asks during the setup...you just uncheck it
 
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: Nebor
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: Nebor
Crap, also because they're WMA the MP3 player's software won't compress them. They're all 162kbps or something, and that makes them pretty big files. Anyone know of software that will compress WMAs en mass for me?
Click to expand...

1. You will lose quality...
2. dBpowerAMP will take care of it easily as long as you get all the codecs.
3. You currently can't bypass the DRM...without actually having access to the file🙁
Click to expand...

I have all the original files on my PC. Ripped to WMA from CDs via WMP9. I have 2 copies of every song, one version in lossless for home use and one version in 162kbps for portables. But since the portable I'm taking with me is pretty low capacity, I'd like to compress the songs I'm aware that quality will be lost.

So do I already have the codecs...?
Click to expand...

Either way, go the the "codec central" part of the dBpoweramp site and download all of the windows media 9 stuff. Also, for future reference, make sure that you UNCHECK "add copy protection" in WMP9/10. IIRC though, WMP10 has it off by default and/or asks you whether you want to disable it during the installation.
Click to expand...

I've always had the "Copy Protection" option disabled.... Hrmmm.
 
Originally posted by: Qosis
Originally posted by: quakefiend420
i blame canada
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Die!
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Dude, you're kidding, right?

It's frickin' south park reference, in case you're new to the decade.

Do you get all uppity when they make fun of our vowel sounds too?

Wait, I'm high right now, my sarcasmometer might be off.

You're kidding, right?
 
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