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Mp3: Playing DRM files..

Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 2:23 am
by Hjess
Hi.

Did anyony success fully played any DRM proteced files?

I've tryed with Amarok, Songbird, Xmms, mplayer ... etc etc. None success full.

I dont need to break the DRM - I just want to listen to my audio books ;-)

/~HJess

Re: Mp3: Playing DRM files..

Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 1:24 pm
by 67GTA
What format are they in? MP3, WMA, etc?

Re: Mp3: Playing DRM files..

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 12:58 am
by Hjess
They are in WMA to make the case any worse ;-)

Re: Mp3: Playing DRM files..

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:24 am
by 67GTA
I think you are out of luck. Win32codecs will let you play them if they are not DRM protected. Your best bet would be to rip them to a different format like MP3.

Re: Mp3: Playing DRM files..

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:39 pm
by Hjess
yah ..

Only trouble is I've only got *BSD, Mint and Fedora boxes at home ;-) .. no windows here ;-)

/~HJEss

Re: Mp3: Playing DRM files..

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 4:32 pm
by 67GTA
I ran across this last night while researching the subject. Maybe it will work for you
I've found a way to by pass it in linux very easy..
All you need it VLC:

vlc -vvv "$a" --sout "#transcode{acodec=mpga,ab=256,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=raw,dst=\"$dest\"}}" vlc:quit > /dev/null
where you replace $a with the encoded file and $dest with the the destination file...
That's how I've bypassed mine M4P and M4A files from iTunes. but I've to say that I didn't test it on windows.. on windows I used doubledesktop, or something like that :)

Anyway, try it out :)
Works in Ubuntu 8.04

Re: Mp3: Playing DRM files..

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:04 pm
by Hjess
67GTA wrote:I ran across this last night while researching the subject. Maybe it will work for you
I've found a way to by pass it in linux very easy..
All you need it VLC:

vlc -vvv "$a" --sout "#transcode{acodec=mpga,ab=256,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=raw,dst=\"$dest\"}}" vlc:quit > /dev/null
where you replace $a with the encoded file and $dest with the the destination file...
That's how I've bypassed mine M4P and M4A files from iTunes. but I've to say that I didn't test it on windows.. on windows I used doubledesktop, or something like that :)

Anyway, try it out :)
Works in Ubuntu 8.04
Hi 67GTA..

Tryed it - no succes.. but thanks alot for the tip!

I'm beleving the only way for me to do this after all is to install virtualbox, and get an XP iso something like that - and then convert it to somthing use full.

/~ HJess

Re: Mp3: Playing DRM files..

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:08 pm
by 67GTA
You might try searching for a DRM remover for Windows and installing it with wine. Just an idea...

Re: Mp3: Playing DRM files..

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 2:10 pm
by Hjess
Been there done that..

Funny thing with wine - I've never had one success full experience with wine.

But at the moment Im playing around with crossover due to a free download day they had.

/~HJess