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Title: Possible To Un Copy Protect Wma's So I...
Post by: WynnFire on January 16, 2004, 01:53:00 PM

can put them on my unmodded xbox hard drive through Xbox Music Mixer?

I picked up the Xbox music mixer and put all of my mp3's on the xbox hard drive. Only problem though, is that the ones that I was able to put on there, are not copy protected. I have downloaded a few mp3's from Napster (the new one) and now that the files are paid for, they are protected and are wma's and they won't let me put it on the xbox. I'm pissed. Any suggestions? Is there a way I can un protect them? If I burn them to a disk, would they still be protected? I already burned one and played them on my cousin's computer and they worked but they won't play over my home network.

Title: Possible To Un Copy Protect Wma's So I...
Post by: Scan-C on January 16, 2004, 02:08:00 PM

if you burn them as normal audio cd you should be able to rip them back to mp3. but i'm sure there is a better way

Title: Possible To Un Copy Protect Wma's So I...
Post by: Xbox_Owner_13 on January 16, 2004, 10:54:00 PM

I ran into this same problem just now. I legally downloaded my music through the Musicmatch service. They are in WMA format. I transferred them to my Xbox but they don't play. Unprotected WMA's that I ripped from original cd's do play. This sucks, anyone know a workaround that's easier than putting all my files on cd-rw and then ripping to the hard drive? I don't have a samsung drive :|

Title: Possible To Un Copy Protect Wma's So I...
Post by: Xbox_Owner_13 on January 18, 2004, 07:03:00 PM

** THIS SHOULD BE ADDED TO THE FAQ **

Ok, I found out how to put my legal music files on the Xbox.

Step 1, burn the tracks to a normal music CD. You've probably already done this is you paid to download an album or songs.

Step 2, use a software program to rip the tracks off your music cd into MP3 format. I used my musicmatch software to do this. The MP3's will be UNprotected.

Step 3, convert the MP3's into WMA format (you should be able to find a software to do this), and the converted WMA files will be unprotected. Move these to your Xbox and enjoy.

Note: There are 2 possibilities for the problem. 1) The xbox cannot play the protected WMA files, OR 2) The WMA files that are downloaded are at too high of a bitrate for the Xbox to play them, and thus, the bitrate must be reduced through converting the files in order for the Xbox to play them.

The WMA's that I ended up with were 64K bit rate (CD quality in WMA). THe originally downloaded WMA's are at 128k or higher I believe.

If someone wants to test, they can rip on original music cd through the Xbox dash, copy the files back to their computer and see what the format and bitrate of the files are.

This post has been edited by Xbox_Owner_13: Jan 19 2004, 03:03 AM

Title: Possible To Un Copy Protect Wma's So I...
Post by: Chicken Scratch Boy on January 18, 2004, 07:24:00 PM

QUOTE (Xbox_Owner_13 @ Jan 18 2004, 08:27 PM)

** THIS SHOULD BE ADDED TO THE FAQ **

ha you wish, noob!

1 google search gets you to this:

QUOTE

either "unfuck wma" or "freeme wma" in google will get you what you need