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I downloaded 4 songs from a legitimate legal music downloading site and the songs won't play on my mp3 player because it says it is Drm encoded. Is there anyway to covert the files or get my player to play them?
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You should however ask this of the music provider.
Bob
Oh ok, sorry about that. I'll ask the provider then.
Hi, Bob.
Newspeak lives these days, as with the "enhanced" CDs that are actually degraded, in that they won't play on a computer CD-drive or many car CD-ROM players. Sadly, that's fast becoming all that's available for new releases. And the %^&$ music industry wonders why people don't feel guilty about ripping them off -- even when you pay their exhorbitant rates, you can't really use what you paid for as you'd like!
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atom, email me at chopsticks33@gmail.com, I'll give you a few suggestions...
Hi, this is Skimac1 again...please do not email me anymore in regards to my previous reply on this topic.
Thanks!
Skimac1
atom,
Most online music stores allow CD burning.
One easy way to do it is to first burn the tracks to a CD and then import them back to the PC into MP3 format.
As you may know, there will be some sound degradation because of the process, but it should be minimum and probably will not recognize it on your device. (Unless you are using a very crappy MP3 encoder.)
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Chowhound
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