Transferring music to my MP3 player
Dec 19, 2004, 5:26 pm
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Transferring music to my MP3 player
Last year sometime I copied over a few CDs to my hard drive and now I am trying to copy the songs to my new MP3 player. I have tried using Windows Media Player, Real Player, etc and it keeps telling me I need a license to play these songs. How can I skirt the issue?
I need techie help!
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I need techie help!
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Dec 19, 2004, 5:48 pm
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An earlier version of Windows Media Player was set to include DRM (Licensing) by default - you had to know to turn it off. The new version allows DRM on ripped CD tunes but it is off by default.
If nothing else works, you should be able to burn the songs to a CD-RW (in "CD music" format) and re-rip then with DRM turned off. Then you'll be able to transfer the new songs to your player.
If nothing else works, you should be able to burn the songs to a CD-RW (in "CD music" format) and re-rip then with DRM turned off. Then you'll be able to transfer the new songs to your player.
Dec 19, 2004, 7:20 pm
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Originally Posted by scruffy
Assuming you have a Windows system, you can use freeware dBpowerAMP Music Converter http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm to convert the audio files to mp3. Then you just copy the mp3 files into your mp3 player.
Dec 19, 2004, 7:42 pm
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Originally Posted by ScottC
Good tip, but won't work if they are licensed, no audio conversion program will be able to simply convert protected content.
Dec 19, 2004, 8:45 pm
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Rip your own CDs. Don't use Windows/Microsoft anything to rip it. (I use CDEX, lots of people use something called Exact Audio Copy. There's lots of other stuff out there too. I don't know if dbPowerAmp rips or not, but it's another very good program.)
Music that you buy from the internet is not really purchased .. it's more like it's leased. You are usually restricted in what you can do with it.
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Music that you buy from the internet is not really purchased .. it's more like it's leased. You are usually restricted in what you can do with it.
-David
Dec 20, 2004, 1:49 am
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itunes isn't a bad way to go. It does have options for quality settings, so use them. But it doesn't have all the options if you care.
Also, the itunes lossless format is ok, but it isn't as widely supported as flac. I use flac for lossless ripping as an external decoder with CDEX. That way I can use something else to convert the files to MP3 or whatever when I want to put them on the ipod or on an MP3 CD or whatever. Since the files are lossless, I can chose the compression ratio I want for that specific task. flac has a winamp plug-in too.
-David
Also, the itunes lossless format is ok, but it isn't as widely supported as flac. I use flac for lossless ripping as an external decoder with CDEX. That way I can use something else to convert the files to MP3 or whatever when I want to put them on the ipod or on an MP3 CD or whatever. Since the files are lossless, I can chose the compression ratio I want for that specific task. flac has a winamp plug-in too.
-David
Dec 25, 2004, 8:17 pm
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When using itunes you have to pay to download each song, are there any free programs that let you download music and then transfer it easily to your ipod? or are those not allowed any more?
Dec 25, 2004, 8:50 pm
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Originally Posted by SkyTeam777
When using itunes you have to pay to download each song, are there any free programs that let you download music and then transfer it easily to your ipod? or are those not allowed any more?
Dec 25, 2004, 10:44 pm
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Once you have downloaded songs on to the iPod, how do you delete them if you dont want them anymore?
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