WMA DRM ripped to MP3 - it's gotta be possible!?

franki · Post by **franki** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 12:29 am

I searched the forum and all I found was posts saying that it's not possible to convert damn Walmart downloaded WMA DRM files to MP3! Has anyone successfully done this, maybe in a proccess involving a virtual drive or something?? I have about 40 of these buggers and I want to be able to play them on my iPod.

Post by **Lowlander** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 10:08 am

You could burn them to CD with probably WMP and than rip them. Or you could try and find FairPlayWM/FairUseWM and see if it works to crack the DRM. Either solution is against the license you agreed to when purchasing the songs.

franki · Post by **franki** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 1:31 pm

I heard that burning the files to CD and then converting them degrades the sound quality, another reason why I was curious about mounting the files to a virtual drive instead (if it even makes a difference that is).

I'll look into FairPlayWM though, thanks...

Miki · Post by **Miki** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 6:47 am

FairPlayWM only works with some licenses [it didn't work for mine] and i think Microsoft has patched it, so it wont work anymore.

Big_Berny · Post by **Big_Berny** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 7:45 am

I think the new version 1.3 should work. But you must have a valid license (they must be playable on your pc) to remove the DRM-protection.

Big_Berny

franki · Post by **franki** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 8:29 am

Big_B, what new version did you mean, was it FairPlayWM??
Strange, I'm not getting any hits in Google for FairPlayWM, if you did mean version 1.3 of FairPlayWM, do you have a link so I can give it a shot??
thanks

Miki · Post by **Miki** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 9:08 am

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=114916

fairuse4wm

franki · Post by **franki** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 9:38 am

Glory be! Thanks Miki, that worked perfectly!