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Posted by wildgeese on 02/23/07 04:17
Nope. Essentially, I am functionally without lisences. The new
version of WMP can't read my old lisences, so even though I do have
them, a program like Winamp that requires lisences for "protected"
music "thinks" that I don't have any. I have tried it, and I got a
message essentially stating that I needed lisences for protected
content.
UNLESS there is a workaround. Do you know of one?
Thanks!
Nicole
On Feb 22, 10:17 pm, "§|ª®T?ߪRt?@$t" <§|ª®T?ߪRt?@
$t@norway_coastline.net> wrote:
> Use Winamp to play them!
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> "wildgeese" <nicole.st.laur...@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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.)
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> > 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!
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> > Thanks!
> > wildgeese
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> > 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
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