Yeah, but MP3's are garbage. I've been using fu4wm for awhile now and it works perfectly, however, if you have upgrade to WMP 11 or updated your software, the so called IBX (Black Box Keys) cannot be read by fu4wm and thus, you cannot crack the .WMA file. However, this new program is a stand alone and will generate the blackbox key and put it into the file that fu4wm reads your key from, which unlocks the .WMA file. Previously, fu4wm did not work on Vista, because you could not downgrade or use an older version of WMP (like version 10) however, since the new app gets the key, that is no longer a worry!

Originally posted by lxfactor:

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you can burn it to a image file.. and mount it with daemon tools. and rip it like that.. waste 0 cents.. =] not every one is rich.

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No I agree your way is just as good, but i wouldnt call the other way a "waste" :)

actually the easiest way is to use the program described in the article. this doesnt seem like news to me. this has been out for quite a while.

i did this with napster and fairuse4wm about 8 months ago.

Originally posted by jetyi83:

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actually the easiest way is to use the program described in the article. this doesnt seem like news to me. this has been out for quite a while.

i did this with napster and fairuse4wm about 8 months ago.

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the original fairuse4wm does not work with vista or wmp11, this is brand new news.

*leans back in content*
"Sweet"

ok itunes drm has been cracked, if the computer is on the original liscensed computer. google jhymn and youll see what i mean. but seriously itunes songs suck as far as quality concerns, so i dont know why you even bother...

In related news, I have traveled six months into the future and learned that Microsoft's patch for this has been cracked. To save time, I just kept checking, and sure enough, anything they came up with, somebody beat. And yet, they...still...STILL...don't get it. By the time they come up with uncrackable encryption, everybody has flippers where their ears used to be and compound eyes that can't really make out movies, anyway. Just sayin.'

who actually buy's music offline?
i have bought a couple of cd's in the past year but never online.....
if i get music online im not even thinking money.

same ere i never buy music online nor in the shops.
why pay when its free?

Napster was busted because they provided other people with the way to steal copyrighted music for free. Usenet does the same thing and they also charge for their service. So why haven't the record companies and movie studios shut them down?

Meanwhile, rock musician Bob Weir makes a new career of 8itching about people downloading his music. He doesn't complain about the thieves who sell pirated Grateful Dead CDs and DVDs on EBAY to the highest bidders.

Making dirty money, from somebody else's copyrighted materials is the ultimate crime committed here. Not much happens until they start peddling bootleg software...

You do realize when you burn to a CD, and then rip the songs to MP3, you're losing even more quality than just ripping the original CD to MP3 (which is worse quality than AAC or WMA you can find on Napster, Yahoo, iTunes, etc.)

In defense of getting music online, if you stick with one service, you will get music that's typically the same quality, tagged properly, etc. The added bonus is not sending traffic through P2P networks which can get you a nice letter from the RIAA.

The idea here is that you buy the song and then break the DRM. However, the same DRM scheme is used on "subscription" tracks, which can be downloaded an unlimited amount of times. The tracks typically play for the length of your subscription. If you don't renew, your songs are gone. fu4wm breaks the DRM so you can use them forever. My guess is most people would go this route instead of paying .99 cents per song, they can get thousands for $10 in one month. Essentially all of the files you "purchase" are now "yours" and can be transferred to any device, format, or CD.

The new program "mirakagi" was posted by Divine Tao on Doom9 forums last Friday, allowing the keys to be made available for Vista, and also allows the Zune files to be broken.

Windows Media DRM cracked once again

- Hooray!

Originally posted by iwillgetu:

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same ere i never buy music online nor in the shops.
why pay when its free?

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because if you don't buy it, how can the artist continue doing what they do? They need to keep updating their software / hardware / Gear, w/o funds from selling the tracks, you're basically kicking them in their teeth.

HAH!

how come there are sooo many posts armorthis said it all.

it does work! However, i will not use it because the music of online stores is of crap quality. And not to mention the quality gets degraded even more if you want to convert WMA --> MP3.

Originally posted by armorthis:

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microsoft = owned

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yes!!! quote of the century

/goes to r*pe online music stores of Win-DRM music, with a free 1mo sub to boot. hahah

Originally posted by AXT:

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it does work! However, i will not use it because the music of online stores is of crap quality. And not to mention the quality gets degraded even more if you want to convert WMA --> MP3.

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You don't have to convert it to MP3. You merely remove the DRM and it stays wma format.

Originally posted by lxfactor:

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actually thats a waste of a CD.

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Get to know cd-rw. They are your friend.

I love this. All I have to say is well done :)

HAHA... I need to get an automative message poster... so I can message "hahah" in every post that something like this happens...

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Originally posted by armorthis:

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microsoft = owned

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yes!!! quote of the century

/goes to r*pe online music stores of Win-DRM music, with a free 1mo sub to boot. hahah

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I know, but i don't like WMA since i use itunes as my music organizer and music tagger. however, i do not convert with itunes.

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Originally posted by lxfactor:

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actually thats a waste of a CD.

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Get to know cd-rw. They are your friend.

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Actually wouldnt he be better off getting to know something like the winamp disk writer output plugin or to just simply to record of the stereo mix of the card as he plays it in wma.

However if you use the winamp disk writer u can write it directly into mp3.

And when transcoding audio its best to pick a target bit rate higher than the source, so if wma is 128kbps make a 160 - 192 mp3 conversion. That way you will hold onto a little more of the sound, instead of losing it all in the two conversions.

But to be honest with the drm gone, why not just leave it as wma, most things play both.

With the resulting "unprotected" WMA file, I see no reason to convert, other than if you use an iPod. MP3 files do not have nearly the same quality as a WMA or AAC file, even if you rip from a CD. The only exception is to use a higher bit rate, which results in a larger file, thus your MP3 player holds less songs.

Works great. Now to de-DRM the music on the phone so it doesn't have to be activated every month by Napster for the to-go service.

I saw today my comp trying to install a Windows Media Audio codec. Do you this is what that is addressing?

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