iv cracked Wma see my other post.you can thank me later

The post 'supercracker' is referring to is a scam. Reported to admins.

Virtuosa is the way to go. For two reason a) speed and b) not widly known.

Most people know about the WinAMP process, so it's being fixed ASAP by AOL. (Ref: http://news.com.com/AOL+blocks+music...3-5582618.html)

Follow this link for how to use Virtuosa: http://forum.cdfreaks.com/showpost.p...&postcount=226

Well it's been done.

The site that made the WinAMP method popular world-wide has now catched on to the Virtuosa method.

Posted here:
http://marv.kordix.com/archives/2005_02.html

We'll have to wait and see what happens now

download as much as you can, get on it now. while the getting is good, i am at 3700 songs and counting

Likewise I've got over 2500 stored and slowly coverting through the Winamp/Lame_enc.dll method.....but having a problem with Virtousa telling me the source file is secured....reason, fixes?

....coz i don't mind it being slow and steady....but the clock is ticking...

make them perfect 1:1 backup copies that you are entitled to.

Using his theory, I found out how to save track info, although it involves installing the new Virtuosa version, then deleting it THEN installing the old version again, so it may not seem worth it to some, but here it is anyway.

Install the new version of virtuosa, then import all the music that you plan on converting. Close the program, then go to the Virtuosa folder in Program Files and copy "Virtuo32.vb" and "Virtuosa" (a CFG file) and paste it on the desktop or some place that you'll remember (I don't know if you need both of these files, but thats what I did and it worked). Then delete the Virtuosa program.

Then install the old Virtuosa version following the previous instructions, open it up and import the same exact music that was imported in the "new" version before. Close the program, then take the "Virtuo32.vdb" and "Virtuosa" (CFG File) that you previously saved and paste it in the Virtuosa folder in Program Files, replacing the ones that are already there. Open up the Virtuosa program and the songs should be there with track info.

There probably is a slightly different way to do it, but this is what worked for me.

Ew too much work. What we need is a way to use the function in the new Virtuosa that reads track information exported into the old version which allows DRM conversions. I tried some things but with no luck.

If you're getting that message then you have the "new" version of Virtuosa. The new version was "fixed" to not allow DRM copying. Go to the above download.com link to download the old version.

Note: both versions are version number "5.0"

If you encode tracks sequentially in their album order, then the output files should be in the correct order when sorted by date. Assuming that the numbering begins at 1 and has no gaps, it should be quite simple to write a script which which goes through the files and adds the correct track number. There is a COM library available which reads and writes ID3 tags, so it could be done in VBScript.

You're doing it the long way. You should only need to replace the files that decode the WMAs.

Install the NEW version of Virtuosa, copy the files from the MsWMedia directory (they are both .VPL files) to somewhere and mark them as the "Track" versions (i.e., *.TRK).

Uninstall and install the old version that works for transcoding.

Go to the MsWMedia directory again and rename the .VPL files to mark them as the "Decoding" versions (*.DEC)

Copy the *.TRK versions of the files to the MsWMedia directory.

Now there should be 4 files, 2 *.TRK files and 2 *.DEC files. When you want to import tracks, rename the *.TRK files as *.VPL, then import the tracks. Close Virtuosa, name those files back to *.TRK (careful to keep the different versions straight). Then rename *.DEC to *.VPL and reopen Virtuosa. The library is still intact and you can now decode.

...a simple batch file could take that directory, delete any exiting *.VPL files, then copy *.TRK or *.DEC to *.VPL as needed. Pass a variable in the commandline to say which action you want to complete to totally automate the process.

As I said before, this post is only for informational purposes.

Do you think its possible to rename the files while the program is open? THen it'd make the batch program easier to code..

Hence..

> Copy *.TRK to *.VPL
> Open Virtuosa
> Import Tracks
> Copy *.VPL to *.TRK
> Copy *.DEC to *.VPL
> Encode MP3s.

If the VPL's are only used when importing tracks and decoding, then in theory this should work, making a simple batch script possible.

Hey Zero,

This is not working for me. I messed up and deleted an album when I shouldn't have. After deleting the bin file and rejoining it still states a negatory.
Have any other tricks up your sleeve?

quadhog

Try downloading and running DB2Reset from http://supportresource.info/

I'm not sure if its because i've downloaded so much music or what, but everytime I open napster it takes about 5 minutes and says "Updating your track database"

Any idea how to speed this process up? Furthermore is there a way to delete music from your library in Napster? Since I already have them in mp3s I don't really care if I have them in my Napster library anymore (I have a feeling this would speed the process up too).

Oh nvm... delete the *.bin file and everything's quick

My bin file was over 3 megs.. jeesh

my bin file is over 13 megs, lol. i have a shit load of songs in que off of napster. probably 7000 just in qeue. already downloaded like 3700. man this is the shit.

Can somebody help me out. When I try to import a whole folder, it asks me for a license requirement thing and I click yes. The problem is that I have to click yes for every single song and its pretty hard to do this for 5000 songs. Any solution to get rid of this annoyin problem? heres a screenshot

haha... you're pretty loud for a jackass that posted a solution that didn't even work.

The only reason virtuosa works is because download.com hosts the previous version which allowed transcoding. definitely not whatever link you posted.

and btw, you're taking all this way too personally, especially with PMing me your personal opinion, which i'm too apathetic to care about. if you're a teenage girl, I suggest you stay away from the computer when you start PMsing. If you're not a teenage girl... well, you're acting like one

yes./.. redownload those songs... those wma's are outdated in a sense that they don't have the license with the files... i redled all the songs and didn't have to click yes to any of em...

hi guys,

i just downoladed the virtuosa 5 version from download.com. this is not working for me. I still get a message that the DRM file is protected. Has anyone an idea where I can find the real previous version, as i guess the have the new version now at download.com too.

thx
Cytbertue

Try to download again, I just confirmed the version on download.com to still be the old version.

Direct Link: http://dw.com.com/redir?pid=10302248...tuosaTrial.exe

Details:
Icon should be the red box (not blue) the blue one is the newer one.
Size: 15,729,497 bytes (right click on file and click properties)
Size on Disk: 15,732,736 bytes

hey guys im new in the site, but i been foolowing your instructions on the napster case, It worked great for me using virtuosa, BIg thanks to all of you for the info.
question:
What should i do when trial version of virtuosa expires?
bye.

bad news folks. as late as last night i was running this without a problem. strangely, i was prompted to updated windows media player to v.10, which i did. i'm not sure what happened precisely, but i can't, for the life of me, convert wma--> mp3 using the method i was using flawlessly just hours ago. i don't know if it's cuz of the WMP update but i can't think of anything else that could've caused this. tried to roll a system restore to no avail. any ideas?