Apple has bested me. Rotten sonsa' bitches.
I got my wife an Ipod Nano for X-mas. She had been using a Rio mp3 player (pieces 'o crap, btw, never get one). Anyway, she had all this music bought through Musicmatch, and I thought that surely Apple would be able to play any music file format, since these types of players are old school now.
Well....
Seems Apple doesn't support the *.wma file extension, which is how the files are stored in Musicmatch. It will, however, take a *.wma file extension and convert it to an *.acc file extension (which is what the Ipod plays). But here's the catch.. only if the *.wma file is UNPROTECTED.
Seems that all *.wmas in Musicmatch are protected files, probably because of all the new anti-piracy crap loaded into them by the paranoid music industry. Anyone ever run into this and know how to force an Ipod to load protected *.wmas from Musicmatch?
I'm lost here. Some of you know a lot more than me when it comes to all things computer. Any help would be appreciated.
Need some help
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This help you Embar?
http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=78454
http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=78454
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Here's what I did with my iPod in getting music from Napster to work on it:
Get an old version of Winamp (I can send you one if you want) that supports writing a .wav file from protected wma's. Then just play the files through Winamp to get .wav files which you can import into iTunes.
Yes - DRM is a bad thing when done in an anti-consumer manner.
Dd
Get an old version of Winamp (I can send you one if you want) that supports writing a .wav file from protected wma's. Then just play the files through Winamp to get .wav files which you can import into iTunes.
Yes - DRM is a bad thing when done in an anti-consumer manner.
Dd
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Tallas and Dd,
I'll look at both of those and get back to you. I'm trying like the dickens to avoid burngin 400+ songs onto CDs, only for the purposes of re-converting the files. That's about 30 CDs, and I just don't want the hassle of it. It may come to that, but what I'm hoping for is a direct file-file conversion.
Anyway, I'll get back to you on it, and let you know how it worked.
I'll look at both of those and get back to you. I'm trying like the dickens to avoid burngin 400+ songs onto CDs, only for the purposes of re-converting the files. That's about 30 CDs, and I just don't want the hassle of it. It may come to that, but what I'm hoping for is a direct file-file conversion.
Anyway, I'll get back to you on it, and let you know how it worked.