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Re: Trouble Playing Music Downloaded From MusicMatch

On Aug 31, 6:11 am, Java Jive <j...@evij.com> wrote:
> This is why these encrypted copyright protection schemes are an
> absolute scam.  Very often, when you upgrade PCs, or even just the
> hardware in a PC, you find that the licences expire.
>
> I got caught out like this years ago by Liquid Audio, now gladly
> defunct.  Their support told me I would have to re-pay/re-download,
> because, being single and not realising the significance of the
> licence small print, I felt I didn't need a licence to play the music
> on lots of computers around the home.
>
> However, I was beggared if I was going to go along with that, and even
> if I hadn't already had a hardware solution to the problem, I'd've
> considered the money better spent on buying one.
>
> In fact, I still had the old PC, because I always have at least two
> similarly set up, and every time I upgrade, the new one becomes the
> work PC, and the previous work PC becomes the backup.  Also, both PCs
> had Soundblasters with Live Drives, which means they both had record
> What You Hear, useful for web broadcasts, and via SPDIF.  So I just
> re-recorded the tracks as *.wav from the old to the new, connected via
> SPDIF.
>
> If you still have the old laptop, then you may be able to do something
> similar.  You can either accept some loss of quality by connecting the
> audio output of the old PC to the input of the new, or, as long as the
> old, or perhaps both, is/are NOT running Vista, plug in something like
> a Terratec Aureon USB MkII (IIRC correctly the MKII is important) into
> each.  They cost about £35-40, so, if you have a large collection,
> this would be a reasonably economic method of solving the problem and
> ensuring that you never have it again.
>
> http://www.terratec.net/en/products/Aureon_5.1_USB_MK_II_2120.html
>
> Note: I am running Windows 2000, rather than anything copyright
> obsessive like Vista, the craven attempts of which to avoid lawsuits
> from media companies to the extent of crippling compliant hardware, I
> consider a very good reason to avoid it.
>
> Also I have only used SBs with Live Drives like this, not Terratecs,
> but I regularly use one of the latter to record the odd song or other
> piece of music off my Pace Twin Freeview receiver, and I consider it
> very good for uses like these.
>
> On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:04:13 -0700 (PDT), "Patrick D. Rockwell"
>
>
>
> <prockw...@thegrid.net> wrote:
> > On my old laptop I had MusicMatch, and a lot of
> > songs, some if which
> > I ripped off of CD's into MP3 form, the others I downloaded from
> > MusicMatch as .WMA
> > MP3 files play just fine, but every time I try to play one
> > of my downloaded .WMA
> > files, it tries to find a license authorization from MusicMatch, and
> > it doesn't get the authorization.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -


Hmm, what if I burned those songs into CD, and then ripped them?

Aren't thre any DRM removal programs that would work? I've already
tried about 4 or 5 but they didn't work. Could it be because I used
them
on my new laptop where I don't have the licenses? If I tried them on
my old
laptop, might that work? According to the last letter that I got from
Yahoo, I
seem to be SOL on this one.

Isn't there a program somewhere called unfuck.exe? I've looked for it,
but I
can't seem to findit. Does anyone have any ideas? I have 172 songs
that I
can't play on my new laptop, and it's cost me almost $172.00 to re
download them. Any ideas would be much appreciated.

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