having been bought a 'generic' mp3 player for christmas, I gleefully loaded it up with all my downloaded music, only to find that everything I had 'purchased' in the form of WMA files rom napster, will not play on my player, I just get 'file error' message. these are all 'protected' files. Is there a way to change them to unprotected files, and then reload them onto my player? I'v paid for em, I wanna listen to em :)
help appreciated

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you could try re-encoding them?

right, sounds like a plan, how do I go about that?

type in googs,, free mp3 encoders........

http://www.mp3-converter.com/mp3_converter_freeware.htm

Originally posted by donky7
type in googs,, free mp3 encoders........

http://www.mp3-converter.com/mp3_converter_freeware.htm
Which don't work for protected WMA files...

There's no way of doing it except to burn the WMA tracks to a CD (rewritable would do the trick to save disks) and then reripping them back to WMA (and then converted) or mp3 ripper.

Originally posted by Martin_s
Which don't work for protected WMA files...

There's no way of doing it except to burn the WMA tracks to a CD (rewritable would do the trick to save disks) and then reripping them back to WMA (and then converted) or mp3 ripper.
does that actually work?
or does it retain its protection? or the protection stop you ripping em?

you could try, use a cdrw disc so you can reuse it after :)

Originally posted by melthebell
does that actually work?
or does it retain its protection? or the protection stop you ripping em?
Writing to a CD as standard CD format for music removes any protection.. Writing them as WMA data files wouldn't.

you could try, use a cdrw disc so you can reuse it after :)
glad to have confirmation... :P