Posted by Rolo Tomassi on 10/22/05 10:10

Malcolm H wrote:
> I have downloaded (and paid for) music tracks from the MSN music
> store .The downloaded tracks are in .wma format protected by DRM
> (Digital Rights Management).
>
> My media player (Squeezebox http://www.slimdevices.com/) will not
> play these files - so I wish to convert them to unprotected mp3.
>
> Using Windows Media player I have successfully burned the downloaded
> .wma files to a CD and then ripped the files from the CD to mp3
> format. These files can then be played by my Squeezebox.
>
> Thus I have achieved my objective, but my question is - why is it
> necessary to burn a CD to achieve this result? Surely there must be
> a way of achieving this conversion directly without going via a CD??
>
> Answers will be awaited with interest.

You could use something like totalrecorder and record the 16bit 44KHz sound
stream that goes to your soundcard but it's all done in real time. The
CD-RW route is the cheapest and quickest.

HTH

Rolo

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