Digital music: Cannot reacquire music licenses for .wma tracks
Cannot reacquire music licenses for .wma tracks
by pspan - 9/17/09 2:04 PMI got a new computer. I have about 280 songs that are .wma that were purchased from Musicmatch/Yahoo/Rhapsody. I tried to get them to help me and they won't. I have tried some software to convert them, but unless I have the license in place they will not work. Is there a way to convert these songs so I don't have to pay $280 to buy them again?
Re: licenses
by Kees Bakker
- 9/18/09 3:00 AM
In reply to: Cannot reacquire music licenses for .wma tracks by pspan
http://www.dvd-tool.com/remove-drm/wma.html says it's legal.
Kees
Licenses
by pspan - 9/18/09 6:30 AM In reply to: Re: licenses by Kees Bakker
Kees,
Thanks for your suggestion. The problem is that I do not have the licenses for my songs because Musicmatch was taken on by Yahoo, which was taken on by Rhapsody. The Tunebite software tried to reaquire the license, but was not able to because of all the changes in the provider. It correctly tried to get the license on the song I tested which was bought from Musicmatch, but they are not available anymore. Does anyone know of a way to convert these songs from .wma files to .mp3 files without the license?
Thanks for your help!
Re: license
by Kees Bakker - 9/18/09 6:34 AM
In reply to: Licenses by pspan
I assumed:
- you still had your OLD computer
- you still could play the tracks on your OLD computer
Then you should be able to do the trick on that one.
Sorry to have misunderstood you. What I understand now: your old computer is broken, so you can't use it any more. And you don't have a backup of the licenses, only of the music.
Yeah, then it's a problem.
Kees
licenses
by pspan - 9/18/09 6:42 AM In reply to: Re: license by Kees Bakker
So Kees, now that you understand my situation, is there any way to retrieve my music?
Sorry for that
by Vzardy - 11/2/09 12:45 AM In reply to: Cannot reacquire music licenses for .wma tracks by pspanAs far as I know, most of the DRM removal software works in the same way by re-recording the original files with authorized license, like my version downloaded from http://www.prlog.org/10207707-how-to-remove-drm-protection-from-wmv-video-files.html
So it's better to make a copy with a right DRM removal software when you purchase music or movie from on-line store like iTunes, Napster, Rhapsofy, Amazon unbox, or Zune Marketplace etc
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