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Both the WinAmp and later Virtuosa conversion schemes worked and then stopped working for me.
How does Napster disable the conversion? Are they changing the WMAs or are they getting into my computer and changing the programs or DLLs?
http://s25.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2DWYYOI5ZU07R3AINHMGTQCOMX
Log-in or leave an email address. If you honestly have web space, I bet somebody would still have a copy of the old version for you to post.
:wink:
Do I need to replace lame_enc.dll or not?
Thanks.
Attempts to convert music as of today result in the progress bar sticking at 0%, with no conversion possible.
I guess it's time to look for Plan C.
thx all
Happened to me too. Napster said there was a software update today.
Virtuosa will no longer convert. Stays at 0%.
Tried re-installing V. but no difference.
Might try & uninstall Napster, but doubt that will fix anything.
:(
I posted above a few days ago, Its been a few days and 500 songs later still working. I updated the .dll file and converts much faster. Good Luck.....
I posted above a few days ago, Its been a few days and 500 songs later still working. I updated the .dll file and converts much faster. Good Luck.....
Just checked it, Napster caught on about the older version I guess, when converting stays at 0%....that sux. At least I converted a couple hundred a few days ago :(
Checking for approval with napster before access, and probably sending an application ID, which is now being refused by napster.
The software update most certainly happend internally at napster and any attempts to reinstall will prove fruitless, since this software update is not client side.
Needs to check for license, so SOL.
Not a musician then I take it.
I'd like to try my hand at "fixing" Virtuosa so that it works like it did before when importing..
hello
Does anybody know how to bypass the protection??
Virtuosa & Winamp does not work any mor
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
<ul id="quote"><h6>Anonymous wrote:</h6>Can someone here post a WMA you downloaded from Napster (one with DRM) that isn't working with Virtuosa?
I'd like to try my hand at "fixing" Virtuosa so that it works like it did before when importing..</ul>
You just browse your drive for the file and it should host it for you for free (up to 30 megs). There aren't any names attached with the service as far as I know.
If possible, ZIP or RAR up 2 tracks so that if the "fix" works for one of the tracks, I can check it with the other one to see if works with it also.
<ul id="quote"><h6>pennstateisthebest wrote:</h6>we get napster here at penn state university. how do u want the file sent?
</ul><ul id="quote"><h6>Anonymous wrote:</h6>Can someone here post a WMA you downloaded from Napster (one with DRM) that isn't working with Virtuosa?
I'd like to try my hand at "fixing" Virtuosa so that it works like it did before when importing..</ul>
try that. If one song works then I will add more.
Penn State was the first university to sign with napster last year. Every student up here has been using winamp and virtuosa. Now all 40,000 kids pissed off at University Park campus!!!! I hope someone figures out a new way.
Thanks
<ul id="quote"><h6>Anonymous wrote:</h6>To keep things easy and anonymous, you can post one (or more) of the WMA tracks that's giving the 0% problem in Virtuosa to http://www.rapidshare.de/
You just browse your drive for the file and it should host it for you for free (up to 30 megs). There aren't any names attached with the service as far as I know.
If possible, ZIP or RAR up 2 tracks so that if the "fix" works for one of the tracks, I can check it with the other one to see if works with it also.
</ul><ul id="quote"><h6>pennstateisthebest wrote:</h6>we get napster here at penn state university. how do u want the file sent?
</ul><ul id="quote"><h6>Anonymous wrote:</h6>Can someone here post a WMA you downloaded from Napster (one with DRM) that isn't working with Virtuosa?
I'd like to try my hand at "fixing" Virtuosa so that it works like it did before when importing..</ul>[url][url]
http://rapidshare.de/files/969946/napstersongs....
What I've noticed so far is that for the tracks posted, their times are all 00:00 in Virtuosa. That's why they won't play or convert. If the routine that does the coversion uses the track's time to control a loop (which it might, I'm not sure yet), then 00:00 isn't a good thing.
When you open a WMA DRM file you download from Napster in Virtuosa, does it show 00:00 for the track time under "Properties" or does it show the track's real time?
Since I don't have the license data for those Napster songs, they all show up as 00:00 timed just like they should. I grabbed some protected WMA files from a friend that had a public license file, and tried to import those into Virtuosa. With the correct license, the file import and file playback work perfectly. However, the conversion in v5.0 doesn't even get to the 0% progress bar problem. It tells me that the conversion is unauthorized because the original content is secure.
New theory: there's a setting that can be switched on or off while making DRM WMA files that allows the security to be more "relaxed" such that Virtuosa can convert them to MP3. Napster could have been using the relaxed mode up until they caught on to the Virtuosa problem.
I'm going to investigate further..
Microsoft's DRM is actually, for a change, really well thought out. The XML header content at the top of every protected WMA file just can't be changed because it's digitally signed using either ECC or RSA. The same thing goes for the actual license files and corresponding keys.
Another feature of the DRM system is its ability to revoke licenses of software vendors. That's what happened to Virtuosa. Once Napster found out about the hack, they updated their licenses so that if Virtuosa tried to open them, that action wouldn't be allowed by the DRM system's back-end (Microsoft controlled). They might have updated something else, but that means that even if we were to "fix" Virtuosa, when it went to open the protected WMA stream, it would be denied by Microsoft's 'in-between' modules.
In short: Virtuosa is out, and real-time encoding is back in (ie: TuneBite).
Thanks to everyone who posted files. I'm sorry if I got your hopes up :(
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?u... (This is to encode a file with DRM protection. If there is a way to encode a file with DRM protection, maybe the same program will remove it. Maybe there is a way to obtain burning rights somehow, too.)
http://s.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/sof... (This website shows the use of protected files. I'm sure some of you may have already seen this page, but maybe there is something there that we are all missing. Check it out again.)
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/h...
http://search.microsoft.com/search/results.aspx...
I was up all night browsing looking for a program or a way to remove the wma protection but no luck. does anybody knows where to look?? :?
We've checked them... and tons of people are looking at this. Your energy is appreciated, but right now the music loopholes are closed.
i can't use this computer to do music production i.e. cubase, but its working just fine with tune bite.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/h...
P.S. I am sure you have all probably already done this, but I backed up all of my downloaded songs onto CDs as data files. So that when a crack does come out, you have these songs downloaded and you can burn them. I don't believe that they would update themselves to new DRM protection, as long as you are not connected to the internet when you do the crack.
"DrmDbg.exe will pick up "KID" and "Seed" from PC's memory when user
playback DRM Protected contents , and make "xxxxx.key" file.
DRM2WMV will unlock ProtectedFile using "xxxxx.key"."
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6021.cfm
--Best wishes.
Not a musician then I take it.
There are musicians out there that are FOR file sharing when used properly. I can see both sides. People are angry with the fact the RIAA, etc. are just suing people, therefore buying RIAA associated CDs helps fund lawsuits that may very well be against people who have next to no money, in fact many are. And having to pay a settlement of $1000 or whatever, may put people in serious debt. If they embraced the technology, and used the technology themselves, legally, that is waaay earlier, when the original Napster was still around, and did not use scare style tactics, and lowered CD prices as well, then there would be way less people that feel bitter about the RIAA. I will continue to avoid RIAA music, and support indie labels, ones that pay artists properly, etc, and have much more reasonable ticket prices. If the RIAA did as I said, I'd still buy major label music, because there are good artists on majors despite much of the drivel out there. And now the MPAA is in the same dilemma!
But using TuneBite or Nero Wave Editor, do you keep the id3 information in the new song?
thanks
i have tunebite, and ive used it for over 100 songs now. just import the lame_enc.dll file, so that you can record to mp3, instead of .ogg files. no problems with it that i have found.
<ul id="quote"><h6>Anonymous wrote:</h6>i believe that with napster to go, you still have to purchase the songs that you transfer to the device. i could be way off, because i never looked into it.
i have tunebite, and ive used it for over 100 songs now. just import the lame_enc.dll file, so that you can record to mp3, instead of .ogg files. no problems with it that i have found.</ul>
How do you "play WMA files on Windows Media Player and record it to wave files by Nero Wave Editor"?
the volume is like less than half of what it should be. and i dont really want to make a 128bit file 320. that is a wate of space.
Try...
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... and then napster will probably find a way to stop the program from working.
That's the way the world works! :)
i wasn't going to put it up but i was thinking about it and couldn't figure out how they could block it so figured why not let the world have their music. :)
Rich
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Manual Removal of Napster DRM with Nero Wave Editor
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What you need is the program Creative MediaSource...... within this program is a really useful recording tool which allows you to encode MP3's according to "What U Hear" through the soundcard. I assume its used for recording mixes with a number of inputs. You load the downloaded WMA files of a certain Album into the play list and hit record. It makes a big mp3 of the entire Album which can easily be cut up.
I just downloaded 600+ songs last night and already have about 100 of those now in mp3.
The only problem is time, as you have to encode in realtime.
Anyway, another trick your visitors might be able to use.
Hope this helps.
Peace
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Anyway, regarding the loss of 1-2 seconds of the song, I downloaded the latest version and it works just great, no missing parts. Maybe this helps the guys who already bought this software 8O
Having been one to get burned(pardon the pun) by MusicMatch v10 screwing my DRM files, and having alot of WMA proctected files, running tunebites on a computer other than the one you are having license rights problems on, worked wonderfully for me. Able to fairly quickly re-record my DRM protected .WMA files, and can one again have the ability to listen to all the music I paid for thru MusicMatch.
What MusicMatch truly needs is a way for a PC to re-build the Documents and Settings/AllUsers/DRM files on the <font color="red"></font>Affected<font color="#444444"></font>PC. After all we already paid for the WMA content, and should be able to run on PCs that once were activated to MusicMatch license retrieval! 8O
the audio out to audio in sounds similar to what i was doing for a couple months. i have a hi-md minidisc recorder, so i'd play the drm files on the computer and run a line to my minidisc. the minidisc player automatically breaks the songs when there is a gap so you don't need to divide them. then your music is ready to listen to on the go. or if you want mp3 you can upload the recording to the computer and convert to mp3. i'm sure if you have a hi-md you know this already, though.
similar process can be done with many mp3 players these days, and they'll record straight to mp3 so you're all set. only probably is you're recording through line in which is analog so the sound can potentially degrade, but its really not noticable. ok, this is long. :wink: