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*justcallmebob* · 22-03-2006

well at least you got something out of the thread . . .

xwings · 23-03-2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by st89jebn

Thank you. Roxio Easy CD Creator 6 worked for me as well with protected wma that I bought from BuyMusic.com.

Well, I installed Roxio 6 and it doesn't work for me with Yahoo music file.
I've used tunebite in the past but for some reason when I playback the audio that I burnt I can hear hissing noise. May be I need to adjust the equalizer on Windows Media player.

Now I just use my DVD recorder to record music (it will record audio when I put blank CD or CDR-W in) . My sound card has digitalToslink output. I just connect it to my minidisc and analog out put to my DVD recorder, since my DVD recorder doesn't have digital input.
It will record in one big file then I just rip it and edit it with Nero wave editor.
this way my songs came out cryltal clean sound. Better than tunebite but it's time consuming. Because you have to actually play the whole album while it's recording and not using the PC at all because any sound that comes on will get recorded also. But you get 100% crytals clear sound this way.
Wish I just could convert it directly to either MP3 or WAV file then burn that would save a lot of time.

tenax · 23-03-2006

Why you deal with this protected wma at all? Why you want this headashe? There are plenty of hight quality mp3z full albums in net.

*justcallmebob* · 24-03-2006

It's not really a headache at all if you know what you're doing.

SkidMark · 24-03-2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by tenax

Why you deal with this protected wma at all? Why you want this headashe? There are plenty of hight quality mp3z full albums in net.

What???? Download a full album thats encoded at the wrong bitrate (so I have to go back and re-download the album from someone else). Download a full album thats mis-labeled (because some idiot didn't label the songs right, so now I have to go through each file to re-name them). Download an album that isn't even what it's labeled as. Download an album that has pops, clicks, and blurbs throughout the entire thing.

Headache... you were kidding right?

Long gone are the days of dealing with idiots sloppyness on IRC and newsgroups. Now when I download a song I at least have SOME confidence i'm getting what I want, at the correct bitrate, labeled correctly, encoded correctly.

tenax · 24-03-2006

>"correct bitrate, labeled correctly, encoded correctly."

If you want you can easily retag with any utility, based on freedb database. Album labeling is not a problem at all. what the bitrate offer this commercial sites? Max is 128 or 192kbps (even not sure)..
I seems, you dont know the right places where to search mp3zz music.. There are plenty quality mp3 with high bitrate, FULL albums, all tagged. Why use this format wma, at all?? Pay for this wma files? Its something that I even not heard about.. Spending a certain time and a little success, it possible to find almost everything, even newest releases..

SkidMark · 26-03-2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by tenax

>"correct bitrate, labeled correctly, encoded correctly."

If you want you can easily retag with any utility, based on freedb database. Album labeling is not a problem at all. what the bitrate offer this commercial sites? Max is 128 or 192kbps (even not sure)..
I seems, you dont know the right places where to search mp3zz music.. There are plenty quality mp3 with high bitrate, FULL albums, all tagged. Why use this format wma, at all?? Pay for this wma files? Its something that I even not heard about.. Spending a certain time and a little success, it possible to find almost everything, even newest releases..

FreeDB has proven to be unreliable for me and I’ve personally ripped CDs that have been labeled incorrectly (namely Promo Only CDs). CDDB is just as bad in my opinion. I suppose it’s because there is no regulation on who can upload album information, and since it’s a free database, no incentive to get it right.

I can't speak for all applications, but Napster is now 192kbps.

I remember the days of IRC, newsgroups, audio galaxy, and napster (the orig.)... So I'm sure I'd be able to find the right resources. Although I’m sure I don't know every resource or even the latest since I don't bother with that method of obtaining music anymore (except for the occasional obscure mp3 only found on lime wire or similar).

I admit there is success in finding albums online, even more often than not. However I don't think its worth the queue-lines, 5.0kbps downloads, etc. found online... sometimes only to download an album encoded incorrectly by some clueless 14 yr old.

Why not just pay the damn $10/mo and rid yourself of that stress/time? Granted when I download a wma, I have the added step of converting that wma in tune bite; but this is an easy process to let run at night. Much quicker of a process than going through every song on an album to insure correct encoding, no cut offs, correct labeling, etc.

xwings · 26-03-2006

Quote:

Long gone are the days of dealing with idiots sloppyness on IRC and newsgroups. Now when I download a song I at least have SOME confidence i'm getting what I want, at the correct bitrate, labeled correctly, encoded correctly.

And don't forget when you click download and it's downloading right away. No waiting or error and files don't exist anymore.
I have cable. when I download the whole album from Yahoo music unlimited. I get the whole album in less than 5 minutes.

*justcallmebob* · 31-03-2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by SkidMark

Why not just pay the damn $10/mo and rid yourself of that stress/time? Granted when I download a wma, I have the added step of converting that wma in tune bite; but this is an easy process to let run at night. Much quicker of a process than going through every song on an album to insure correct encoding, no cut offs, correct labeling, etc.

Exactly.

SkidMark · 31-03-2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by DanielleT01

You can find it here: [link removed]

Um read the rules, cracks/serials aren't allowed.

sechjo · 02-04-2006

I have just downloaded an application that copies Secure WMA-files and encode them into MP3.
Look at http://www.tunebite.com

sechjo · 02-04-2006

Sorry, I just realized that several others wrote about this already.

capted · 02-04-2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by sechjo

Sorry, I just realized that several others wrote about this already.

Don't worry about it. Muvaudio and tunebite were discussed so long ago that we have come full circle. Your post helps keep this thread open and one day someone will come up with a deal as good as we once had with Virtuosa and MusicMatch.

billabong817 · 04-04-2006

i have ruckus and have been trying forever to figure out how to be able to burn the music i get from it or to put it on my ipod. can anyone help me?

michaeljo · 21-05-2006

I converted DRM protected WMA music files with SoundTaxi to MP3 files.It works great with Napster, Yahoo and iTunes.
To convert 300 WMA files into MP3 files iy took less than 1 hour - that's 12x speed

. much faster than any other tool I test. They have a free trial at http://www.soundtaxi.info

Quote:

Originally Posted by daftpunk

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Below you can find a few of the methods that are used in this thread. You can find more by browsing the entire thread but it contains hundreds of posts. Here are the most easy ways to convert your WMA files. We have found several solutions for you so you can bypass the WMA file DRM protection. And know that when you are reading this that you are reading the best information regarding about how to burn or crack protected WMA files!

When you are reading this, you might also want to get AnyDVD to bypass video and audio copy protections on CD and DVD. Also read our thread on audio CD protections

Best and easiest solutions: *recommended*

* Tunebite runs in the background on your Windows PC. When you play back a piece of music, Tunebite automatically re-records the song. According to the author of the software this is legal and foolproof. Leverages High Speed Digital Dubbing for turbo-speed recording and allows you to listen to other music while it's doing its job.

* MuvAudio (click for download) is a .NET software application (Windows XP) for recording/converting the audio of most video/audio items that are playable by Windows Media Player. Including audio files protected with a DRM protection like the ones from Napster, MusicMatch and E-music.

Reported to work for some

* Backup music files from Napster/other companies that allow CD burning:

Download the songs from Napster
Burn the songs to a CD e.g. using Nero
Rip the CD to MP3 e.g using Easy CDDA Creator
Convert to any format you like e.g. using again Easy CDDA Creator

* Another method using Virtuosa JukeBox (Does not seem to work anymore)

Download songs.
Download Virtuosa.
Set Virtuosa WMA-->MP3 to128 Kbps, 44.1 kHz MP3 encoding.
Depending on your system you can encode 50-100 songs at a time.

This is lightyears ahead of the realtime/streaming recording to wav/mp3, and the output quality will be substantially better. If you try and encode at 192, it will not work. 160 occasionally works, but 128 is a LOCK.

Original post:

xwings · 21-05-2006

Most of these software are just recording what's playing. I used tunebit several and wasn't really happy with the result. There's still some hissing noise at the end of the track when the music is fading out at the end and between tracks and make sure you exit the weather bug and stop using the PC completely otherwise you will hear everything that the PC makes, like weather bug alert, your IM or certain website contain videos or ad on their homepage.

Me personally still like to do the recording from sound card and edit it with Nero wave editor. The result is as good as the original.

Battleman13 · 22-05-2006

Thats the best way I suppose, run a connector between the out and in of your sound card and use nero or any other voice copier to capture the songs.

capted · 24-05-2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by michaeljo

I converted DRM protected WMA music files with SoundTaxi to MP3 files.It works great with Napster, Yahoo and iTunes.
To convert 300 WMA files into MP3 files iy took less than 1 hour - that's 12x speed

. much faster than any other tool I test. They have a free trial at http://www.soundtaxi.info

Running Windows XP PRO.
I tried to install soundtaxi and it gave me a BSOD. It also knocked out my CD/DVD drives. System Restore said it worked but did not fix the problem. I found my sound also bombed.
To make a long story short, I downloaded RealTecAC'97 and re-installed.
It fixed the sound and also the CD/DVD drives.
I don't know if the problem is SoundTaxi or the RealTec on board sound system.
I sent an email to Sountaxi support just in case anyone else has the same problem.

miket0191 · 25-05-2006

If you really serious about encode your wma into mp3 files, muvaudio is the best choice from my opinion. I've tried a bunch of different software and muvaudio always comes out on top.

*justcallmebob* · 28-05-2006

The newest version of Tunebite is way better than the original IMO. I haven't checked to see if MuvAudio has been updated in a while . . .

gabeh · 28-05-2006

Very useful indeed, I used to use TotalRecorder from HighCriteria... with its own cumbersome audio mixing driver. Tunebite truely rocks.

kingtj · 13-06-2006

Yep! Same experience here! I downloaded a trial copy of Soundtaxi on my work PC just to take a look at it. It appeared to run properly, but I didn't really have any protected music on my hard drive to try it out with. I went ahead and paid my $14.90 to register it though, based on other people's positive comments about it.

When I got home, I tried to install it on my Macbook Pro laptop's XP Pro (SP2) installation. It blue-screened the machine during the stage where it was trying to add some sort of additional sound driver/device (SndTDriverV32), and I had to roll back my audio drivers to the previous version to get them working again.

Then, I tried again on my AMD Athlon 64 3000+ PC. Same exact problem! (Both systems use Realtek Soundmax AC97 audio chipsets though.)

To make matters even worse, I decided "Screw it!" and tried to activate the copy still on my work PC - since that seems to be my only computer this thing will run on. It gives me an activation code on Soundtaxi's web site that won't activate my product! So I've been totally ripped off - so far.

Quote:

Originally Posted by capted

Running Windows XP PRO.
I tried to install soundtaxi and it gave me a BSOD. It also knocked out my CD/DVD drives. System Restore said it worked but did not fix the problem. I found my sound also bombed.
To make a long story short, I downloaded RealTecAC'97 and re-installed.
It fixed the sound and also the CD/DVD drives.
I don't know if the problem is SoundTaxi or the RealTec on board sound system.
I sent an email to Sountaxi support just in case anyone else has the same problem.

capted · 14-06-2006

Kingtj,
I have been working with Soundtaxi to try to find the problem.
I have an AMD Athlon and when I reported that I partitioned my hard drive and with a new system installation with no other programs, it crashed they started taking me seriously.
They said they got ahold of an AMD Athlon and it "Crashed Beautifully".
They are working on a fix for Athlon.
I was told after this, they determined that most all the complaints were from AMD Athlon owners.
They are working on a fix for Athlon.
The speed is much faster than Muvaudio but you can't convert a folder. You have to open the folder and select all the files you want to convert.
I hope they get it fixed because of the speed.

CloneZilla · 27-06-2006

I've tried the Demo version of this.

It seems to work great, however, I don't have the time to sit and wait.

http://software.muzychenko.net/eng/vac.html

What would be nice is an application with a nice big button that says, "Copy Music" and it just works, anyone know of something like this?

capted · 27-06-2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by CloneZilla

I've tried the Demo version of this.

It seems to work great, however, I don't have the time to sit and wait.

http://software.muzychenko.net/eng/vac.html

What would be nice is an application with a nice big button that says, "Copy Music" and it just works, anyone know of something like this?

This is part of the Muvaudio package.
I agree, it would be nice to have a proxy that would let you download and convert to umprotected all at once.
So far, Muvaudio seems the best IMHO.

22-03-2006	#1901 (permalink)
justcallmebob CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 510	Re: How to burn or crack protected WMA files? <a href='http://adstats.cdfreaks.com/www/delivery/ck.php?n=a13febf7&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE' target='_blank'><img src='http://adstats.cdfreaks.com/www/delivery/avw.php?zoneid=30&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE&n=a13febf7' border='0' alt='' /></a> well at least you got something out of the thread . . .

23-03-2006	#1903 (permalink)
tenax New on Forum Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 18	Re: How to burn or crack protected WMA files? Why you deal with this protected wma at all? Why you want this headashe? There are plenty of hight quality mp3z full albums in net.

24-03-2006	#1904 (permalink)
justcallmebob CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 510	Re: How to burn or crack protected WMA files? It's not really a headache at all if you know what you're doing.

24-03-2006	#1906 (permalink)
tenax New on Forum Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 18	Re: How to burn or crack protected WMA files? >"correct bitrate, labeled correctly, encoded correctly." If you want you can easily retag with any utility, based on freedb database. Album labeling is not a problem at all. what the bitrate offer this commercial sites? Max is 128 or 192kbps (even not sure).. I seems, you dont know the right places where to search mp3zz music.. There are plenty quality mp3 with high bitrate, FULL albums, all tagged. Why use this format wma, at all?? Pay for this wma files? Its something that I even not heard about.. Spending a certain time and a little success, it possible to find almost everything, even newest releases..

02-04-2006	#1911 (permalink)
sechjo New on Forum Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 2	Re: How to burn or crack protected WMA files? I have just downloaded an application that copies Secure WMA-files and encode them into MP3. Look at http://www.tunebite.com

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02-04-2006	#1912 (permalink)
sechjo New on Forum Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 2	Re: How to burn or crack protected WMA files? Sorry, I just realized that several others wrote about this already.

04-04-2006	#1914 (permalink)
billabong817 New on Forum Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1	Re: How to burn or crack protected WMA files? i have ruckus and have been trying forever to figure out how to be able to burn the music i get from it or to put it on my ipod. can anyone help me?

21-05-2006	#1916 (permalink)
xwings New on Forum Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 29	Re: How to burn or crack protected WMA files? Most of these software are just recording what's playing. I used tunebit several and wasn't really happy with the result. There's still some hissing noise at the end of the track when the music is fading out at the end and between tracks and make sure you exit the weather bug and stop using the PC completely otherwise you will hear everything that the PC makes, like weather bug alert, your IM or certain website contain videos or ad on their homepage. Me personally still like to do the recording from sound card and edit it with Nero wave editor. The result is as good as the original.

22-05-2006	#1917 (permalink)
Battleman13 New on Forum Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 12	Re: How to burn or crack protected WMA files? Thats the best way I suppose, run a connector between the out and in of your sound card and use nero or any other voice copier to capture the songs.

25-05-2006	#1919 (permalink)
miket0191 New on Forum Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 8	Re: How to burn or crack protected WMA files? If you really serious about encode your wma into mp3 files, muvaudio is the best choice from my opinion. I've tried a bunch of different software and muvaudio always comes out on top.

28-05-2006	#1920 (permalink)
justcallmebob CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 510	Re: How to burn or crack protected WMA files? The newest version of Tunebite is way better than the original IMO. I haven't checked to see if MuvAudio has been updated in a while . . .

28-05-2006	#1921 (permalink)
gabeh New on Forum Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1	Re: How to burn or crack protected WMA files? Very useful indeed, I used to use TotalRecorder from HighCriteria... with its own cumbersome audio mixing driver. Tunebite truely rocks.

14-06-2006	#1923 (permalink)
capted CD Freaks Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Spaceport, USA Posts: 162	Re: How to burn or crack protected WMA files? Kingtj, I have been working with Soundtaxi to try to find the problem. I have an AMD Athlon and when I reported that I partitioned my hard drive and with a new system installation with no other programs, it crashed they started taking me seriously. They said they got ahold of an AMD Athlon and it "Crashed Beautifully". They are working on a fix for Athlon. I was told after this, they determined that most all the complaints were from AMD Athlon owners. They are working on a fix for Athlon. The speed is much faster than Muvaudio but you can't convert a folder. You have to open the folder and select all the files you want to convert. I hope they get it fixed because of the speed.

27-06-2006	#1924 (permalink)
CloneZilla New on Forum Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 1	Re: How to burn or crack protected WMA files? I've tried the Demo version of this. It seems to work great, however, I don't have the time to sit and wait. http://software.muzychenko.net/eng/vac.html What would be nice is an application with a nice big button that says, "Copy Music" and it just works, anyone know of something like this?

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