aimeeandbeatles
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WARNING: This should be only used if:
a) You already have the 'license' for the file. (You need it to do this anyways!)
b) YOU ARE ONLY CONVERTING FOR PERSONAL USE. Ex. To put a song on your iPod or if you need to format your hard drive.
Anyway, warning over. I wrote this all myself, this morning. I tried to make it understandable to 'non-techies,' as I call 'em. So don't be insulted if something is obvious, 'cos somebody else might not have a clue if I wrote it for 'techies.'
How To Convert 'Protected' WMA's to MP3
Even though it's all over the internet, I discovered this by experimenting. Sometimes, you need to fiddle around with the settings, but it ought to work.
1. Download Audacity. It's free!
2. Find the protected song. Hopefully, you already have the 'license' for it, because you need to play it. You need to open it in a seperate media player, not Audacity.
3. Now, you have Audacity open. This should be in one of the toolbars at the top.
See the little slider beside the microphone? Put it at 0.1.
And the drop-down menu, change it to "Stereo Mix."
4. Press Record. This is the big red circle.
5. Start playing the song. When the song ends, switch back to Audacity, and click Stop (The yellow square.)
6. Edit out any 'dead air,' as I call it. That's the silence before and after the song.
Now you have two options.
7a. To convert directly to MP3, you need some DLL. I don't remember the name of it, but if you don't have it, it will show a message.
7b. You can also convert to WAV, and use another program to convert it to MP3. I've heard this can cause lower quality, though.
To convert to either format, you go to the File menu.
I hope this helped!
a) You already have the 'license' for the file. (You need it to do this anyways!)
b) YOU ARE ONLY CONVERTING FOR PERSONAL USE. Ex. To put a song on your iPod or if you need to format your hard drive.
Anyway, warning over. I wrote this all myself, this morning. I tried to make it understandable to 'non-techies,' as I call 'em. So don't be insulted if something is obvious, 'cos somebody else might not have a clue if I wrote it for 'techies.'
How To Convert 'Protected' WMA's to MP3
Even though it's all over the internet, I discovered this by experimenting. Sometimes, you need to fiddle around with the settings, but it ought to work.
1. Download Audacity. It's free!
2. Find the protected song. Hopefully, you already have the 'license' for it, because you need to play it. You need to open it in a seperate media player, not Audacity.
3. Now, you have Audacity open. This should be in one of the toolbars at the top.
See the little slider beside the microphone? Put it at 0.1.
And the drop-down menu, change it to "Stereo Mix."
4. Press Record. This is the big red circle.
5. Start playing the song. When the song ends, switch back to Audacity, and click Stop (The yellow square.)
6. Edit out any 'dead air,' as I call it. That's the silence before and after the song.
Now you have two options.
7a. To convert directly to MP3, you need some DLL. I don't remember the name of it, but if you don't have it, it will show a message.
7b. You can also convert to WAV, and use another program to convert it to MP3. I've heard this can cause lower quality, though.
To convert to either format, you go to the File menu.
I hope this helped!
