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Anonymous — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:58:43 -0000

Why not try software using Virtual CD-RW drive? I found a program using the Virtual CD-RW method to convert protected music to unprotected formats on www.download.com . The program name is NoteBurner Audio Converter (http://www.noteburner.com). It worked perfectly on my computer. NoteBurner burns music onto a virtual CD-R. I cannot tell any difference between the original and converted music in terms of the music quality. And I would agree that NoteBurner is super fast and reliable.

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MickeyMouse — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:53:23 -0000

woop!

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davak — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:19:42 -0000

This hack doesn't work anymore. The hole has been fixed.

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Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:25:12 -0000

could someone please help, i got a message that says there was a problem with the folder whenever I'm trying to install the output stacker plugin, so i either ignore or abort and obviously neither works to properly install the pugin. plz, i need help :?

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Anonymous — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 09:08:43 -0000

why do you guys even bother??? If you're gonna record the output of your soundcard like that, you might as well pick yourself up a cassette player, record the music, and transfer it back on the computer. that's all this recording nonsense is. And if you want better quality, connect the line out to the line in of another computer and record your audio. simple!

cracking the DRM isn't impossible. it's just that no one good enough to do it has been willing to do it and risk being prosecuted or sued.

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AlexTheBeast — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 09:49:34 -0000

<ul id="quote"><h6>Anonymous wrote:</h6>The winamp method works fine for me although i need a method of decoding windows DRM portected music so that i dont have to download the liscence as i cant download it.
any help muchly appreciated</ul>

yeah. that's the rub. there is no way to decode without the license.

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Anonymous — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 06:57:15 -0000

The winamp method works fine for me although i need a method of decoding windows DRM portected music so that i dont have to download the liscence as i cant download it.
any help muchly appreciated

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Anonymous — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 03:38:22 -0000

read the above posts and you will find a lot of alternatives, that is, software alternatives. As I said before my personal favourite is Tunebite. :P

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Anonymous — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 05:02:03 -0000

ok, so winamp is dead, is virtuosa gone now too?

Any method better than using a tape recorder and my speakers that works at the moment???

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Anonymous — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 17:45:01 -0000

For the love of God... who is gonna be the genius to crack this?

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Anonymous — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 03:01:09 -0000

<ul id="quote"><h6>narn wrote:</h6>I couldn't ge tunebite to work after I canceled the Napster membership. So now I have all these other music files that don't play. Where do I go from here?</ul>

I already gave you a hint on another thread, but I'll detail it a bit.
Tunebite works in the following way: it uses Windows Media Player to play the protected music. When this music is played, the software records the output of your soundcard, using a digital-analog-digital process, and during this process the DRM protection is lost. The other data contained in the song are maintained and are automatically introduced in the ID Tags of the resulting .mp3 file.
Napster offers you a rental of their music. As long as you pay the monthly fee, you can download and listen as many songs as you want on your computer. But if you stop paying, then the license expires and you can't play the songs in Windows Media Player anymore.

So, if you want to use Tunebite with Napster files, convert your files, as long as the subscription to Napster is active :!:

So you should reactivate your account with Napster, convert the files you already have, and then cancel it.

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Anonymous — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 02:43:19 -0000

dear guest :)

Why don't you try a profesional software that does it all for you ? I use www.tunebite.com and works perfectly. Till I found it I tried a lot of free software and recipes to free my music, and always ended up with frustration, that they were not reliable, or I didn't have the necessary knowledge to make them work properly :?
Anyway, for 15$ i saved myself a lot of wasted time, and I have everything legally copied on my hard-drive.
Maybe this helps your problem a bit

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narn — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 08:27:10 -0000

I couldn't ge tunebite to work after I canceled the Napster membership. So now I have all these other music files that don't play. Where do I go from here?

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Anonymous — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 02:06:14 -0000

i have followed the exact instructions of this site...

http://maison.emdx.org/Crackster/

i used winamp...i feel that i did not set the output stacker up right, but that is pure speculation on my part. i have not done anything outside of those instructions. when i started playing the songs from napster, and even after they were done i could not find the .wav files anywhere. i even searched my harddrive to see if they went someplace i did not know about.

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Anonymous — Tue, 31 May 2005 21:51:23 -0000

<ul id="quote"><h6>guest wrote:</h6>i am having problems locating the files afteri play them...i do not even think it is converting them to wave...i have followed the directions exactly and was wondering if i was doing something wrong...any help would be great.</ul>

What software are you refering to, can you be more specific? :P

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guest — Tue, 31 May 2005 18:38:20 -0000

i am having problems locating the files afteri play them...i do not even think it is converting them to wave...i have followed the directions exactly and was wondering if i was doing something wrong...any help would be great.

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Anonymous — Tue, 24 May 2005 22:11:04 -0000

I have a Napster account too and I have all of ripped and ready to go :)
I use Tunebite (www.tunebite.com) and it works perfectly and it's perfectly legal too

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Alz — Sun, 22 May 2005 09:05:39 -0000

I have about 3 days left of my napster trial and I realised that i cant convert the files to cd then re rip them to mp3!!! Does ANYTHING at all work to get them into an mp3 coz I downloaded about 30 albums without realising :( help!

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Anonymous — Mon, 09 May 2005 12:15:32 -0000

somebody just needs to write a program that converts these

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Anonymous — Sun, 08 May 2005 11:42:36 -0000

It stopped working as of Saturday. :cry: Fun while it lasted.

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Anonymous — Sun, 08 May 2005 10:59:54 -0000

the musicmatch workaround doesn't work either.. won't let you convert wma's to anything but wma's.

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davak — Mon, 02 May 2005 14:45:02 -0000

New Work-Around:
http://www.tech-recipes.com/windows_tips868.html

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deklan — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:06:26 -0000

<ul id="quote"><h6>kingdave80 wrote:</h6>how do i play napster downloads in winamp after i configed the output file to Force WAV file so i can burn them? please help :?</ul>hi

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Anonymous — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 04:57:08 -0000

download winamp and then
Download and install the Winamp Plug-in Output Stacker
this will work.

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Anonymous — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 15:03:30 -0000

<ul id="quote"><h6>Anonymous wrote:</h6></ul><ul id="quote"><h6>bla2 wrote:</h6>Why not just use the embedded "write to disk" -plugin, that comes with WinAMP? ..Then you won't have to rip in real-time, but pretty much faster..</ul>

That's exactly what is being done, just in a roundabout way. Winamp won't let you go directly from WMA to the diskwriter plugin. The reason for the Stacker plug-in is to trick Winamp into thinking you aren't using the disk writer plug-in.