Posted by �|��T?ߪRt?@$t on 02/23/07 03:17

Use Winamp to play them!


"wildgeese" <nicole.st.laurent@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Any suggestions taken here: on how to get DRM encoded music files
> playable, when WMP11 claims I have no license.
>
> It took me about half of forever to find or reestablish lisences, (for
> music files saved onto my computer from cd's I owned way back when,)
> after losing them originally when i had to reformat my computer and my
> backup did not work.
>
> Now I have WMP11 installed- by dumb accident- (it seemed like it was
> only updating a component but it actually installed an entirely new
> version)- and once again, some of those files are not playable. I was
> in the middle of tedious process of burning them back onto cd's once
> and for all, one by one, but was nowhere near finishing the task when
> this happened. Apparently I understand that now there is a broad,
> generic license that is not capable of unencoding every file- some are
> inevitably lost. The only solution Microsoft has suggested is recopy
> from the original cd's (not an option for me) or revert to WMP10
> (which sounds incredibly risky because apparently even more data may
> be lost in the process.)
>
> I simply don't have enough knowledge about hacking code to have any
> idea what I could try to "unfuck" my music. I know some of the
> FairUse thingies are not available anymore because they got sued into
> the ground. Can anyone help me solve this problem? Info. please!
> Generous techies with knowledge to spare please reply!
>
> Thanks!
> wildgeese
>
> P.S. Needless to say I do not need to be reminded never to save any
> files in WMA again, nor to ever be so trusting as to not keep a
> backup. I did this when WMP first came out, on my first computer- if
> only I knew then. Yada-ya. Yes, I know now. But about those
> files....
>

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