[ltp] how to play drm WMAs (on my thinkpad)

[Vijay Garla]

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Hello,

Unfortunately, there I don't know of any music services which offer 
non-drm protected downloads (aside from magnatunes, whose selection is 
great, but limited).  Does anybody have any tips?
- AFAIK only ITunes allows the purchase of non-drm music (via dvd jon's 
hacks). 
- AFAIK ITunes DRM can be hacked because music is sent over the wire 
unencrypted; with WMA music is sent across the wire/stored in a file 
encrypted and decrypted by the software
- In summary, poorly implemented DRM can be hacked; it seems as if WMA 
is well implemented.

Buying cds is sooo stone-age; in addition, I'm on the move quite a bit 
(hence the laptop) - I want my music on my hard disk.  I don't mind 
paying for music - I just want to listen to it, and am too lazy to order 
cds, wait for them to come in the mail, and rip them.

- vijay

Paul RIVIER wrote:

> Vijay Garla wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've got a dual boot win xp pro/suse 9.3 thinkpad.  I'dl like to play 
>> my legally acquired WMAs (from rhapsody) on linux as well as 
>> windows.  How can I do this?
>>
>> Googling around a bit, it seems the only way to "rip" drm protected 
>> WMAs is to burn them to a cd (or iso) and rip the cd (sounds like a 
>> pain).  At any rate, I really don't need to rip the wmas - I just 
>> want to play them on linux.  Any hints?
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> - vijay
>
>
> I would suggest to you to avoid those DRM. As you can feel, it will 
> cause you a lot of problems and will *never* improve artist's 
> condition. The only one who profit from that is the end seller 
> (editor, maybe), and the owner of the file-protection (miscrosoft in 
> this case) because it can control the way you listen to your music, 
> and force you to use its software on its OS.
> Just avoid it, audio cds are cheap on the internet, and the pleasure 
> to have a real album is important.
>
> paul



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