Posted by tt_toes on 03/20/07 16:13

why you waste your time supporting anything bill gates has his finger in
is above me .....winamp works well ....xmms is the same but for debian
LINUX... it is free no lisence problems or registring issues,but then
again a sucker is born every minute
wildgeese wrote:
> 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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