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joe751 · 18-02-2005

ok guys listen up. This is how it is done. plain and simple. if you follow these steps you will enjoy your music on you home cd player or in your car. All you need is a nice little program called WINAMP!!!! and a few little tiny plugins to go with it. Lets get started...

1. download winamp5.08, null output plugin, out lame plugin(i use the 1.6.2 version and it works fine) and the dietmers output stacker plugin.

2. Install winamp and all of the plugins

3. open up winamp and click options

4. click preferences, then click output(now you should see all of the plugins you installed)

5. Next click on the output stacker plugin and click config

6. now click on add plugin

7. add the null output plugin first(this will allow winamp to run with no noise, so you can listen to something else on windows media player or whatever player you use)

8. then add the out lame plugin(im assuming this plugin is what keeps the ID TAGS with the song. yes you heard me right, it will keep the ID TAGS. now if that aint the shit i dont know what is.

9. then click on the out lame plugin and hit config. set up your directory to save to the folder of your choice.

10. click done all the way through till you get back to the winamp media player

11. import your files and you are ready to go

12. as each file is played it will convert it to mp3 into the folder you chose for you newly converted stupid drm wma to nice and pretty mp3 files.

13. yes it will TAG the song(i was worried about this, as i download alot of music and i dont want to have to tag each and every damn song.

Note: remember that every song played through winamp will be converted.

Note: Once you close winamp out, all of your settings will be lost, so if you want to convert some more songs you must set all of your settings again

i just want to shout out a big THANK YOU to whoever figured this out. Come on out and take your curtain call and get it over with. once again thank you.

on a side note: I download my songs while winamp is converting in the backround, i have been doing this for about 2 days now. All you have to do is set it and forget it. Ive got about 60 gigs of music now, i have about 40 to start and have gotten about 20 in the last 2 days. I do all of this on a measly(but shes my baby)900mhz processor and 256 mb ram. let her run day and night. converting and downloading. I am going to have to go buy another hard drive. maybe i will go with a 160 gig all for music. man i love music. especially when napster offers unlimited songs for $10 bucks a month

1 Downfall to this method: It isnt quick enough, especially when you have 5000 songs. Other than that it is great.

If anyone knows a way to convert these with a special utility tool without having to do it in real time. Please sign up to the site and post a message letting us know how. As i would be very gratefull for your sevices. wow, just downloaded 50 songs while posting this message. man napster the second is great. and please dont say virtuosa, as they have already fixed the glitch in their program. Some big wig company must have been getting on there ass about it. to bad for them as they would make more money off of people buying there program than they get from those big wigs.

away with DRM and in with MP3!!!!!!!!!!!!1

18-02-2005	#200 (permalink)
joe751 CD Freaks Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 55	Re: How to burn or crack protected WMA files? ok guys listen up. This is how it is done. plain and simple. if you follow these steps you will enjoy your music on you home cd player or in your car. All you need is a nice little program called WINAMP!!!! and a few little tiny plugins to go with it. Lets get started... 1. download winamp5.08, null output plugin, out lame plugin(i use the 1.6.2 version and it works fine) and the dietmers output stacker plugin. 2. Install winamp and all of the plugins 3. open up winamp and click options 4. click preferences, then click output(now you should see all of the plugins you installed) 5. Next click on the output stacker plugin and click config 6. now click on add plugin 7. add the null output plugin first(this will allow winamp to run with no noise, so you can listen to something else on windows media player or whatever player you use) 8. then add the out lame plugin(im assuming this plugin is what keeps the ID TAGS with the song. yes you heard me right, it will keep the ID TAGS. now if that aint the shit i dont know what is. 9. then click on the out lame plugin and hit config. set up your directory to save to the folder of your choice. 10. click done all the way through till you get back to the winamp media player 11. import your files and you are ready to go 12. as each file is played it will convert it to mp3 into the folder you chose for you newly converted stupid drm wma to nice and pretty mp3 files. 13. yes it will TAG the song(i was worried about this, as i download alot of music and i dont want to have to tag each and every damn song. Note: remember that every song played through winamp will be converted. Note: Once you close winamp out, all of your settings will be lost, so if you want to convert some more songs you must set all of your settings again i just want to shout out a big THANK YOU to whoever figured this out. Come on out and take your curtain call and get it over with. once again thank you. on a side note: I download my songs while winamp is converting in the backround, i have been doing this for about 2 days now. All you have to do is set it and forget it. Ive got about 60 gigs of music now, i have about 40 to start and have gotten about 20 in the last 2 days. I do all of this on a measly(but shes my baby)900mhz processor and 256 mb ram. let her run day and night. converting and downloading. I am going to have to go buy another hard drive. maybe i will go with a 160 gig all for music. man i love music. especially when napster offers unlimited songs for $10 bucks a month 1 Downfall to this method: It isnt quick enough, especially when you have 5000 songs. Other than that it is great. If anyone knows a way to convert these with a special utility tool without having to do it in real time. Please sign up to the site and post a message letting us know how. As i would be very gratefull for your sevices. wow, just downloaded 50 songs while posting this message. man napster the second is great. and please dont say virtuosa, as they have already fixed the glitch in their program. Some big wig company must have been getting on there ass about it. to bad for them as they would make more money off of people buying there program than they get from those big wigs. away with DRM and in with MP3!!!!!!!!!!!!1 Last edited by joe751; 18-02-2005 at 10:53.