freeme2 - free software to remove DRM protection from Windows Media WMA,WMV,ASF files

my file plays fine in media player. I have tried the trick to go to properties but media player doesn't freeze and the sid never populates. Running windows vista home premium and content in question is zune content.

[carlos1014]

Hey tresni,

I was having some problems with your GUI. Since you made the source available, I took the liberty of checking it out.

You forgot the lines for the [IndivBoxKey] and [drmv2clt] file paths when building the .ini file... At least that's what I think might have created the issues for me (I was getting "Write memory full" or something to that effect from drmdbg. I added the lines to the source and republished the project and boom! It changed about 20 files (wma) in 3 minutes; whereas it may have taken me 1 hour doing them one by one.

I'll test the republished program again and see if I continue having problems.

Thank you so much for this program...

[tresni]

Originally Posted by FrancoCorelli

Hi, thanks for your GUI - it works fine. I only have the problem that every time I start it the ini file dmrdbg gets rewritten and looses the Indivboxkey etc. After writing it in manually it is ok. Then it gets lost again. Why it the file rewritten every time? I have everything in the same dir.

Can you please help me?

Some of the options need to be written, and in C# it's easier to rewrite the entire ini file then to change the specific options. The IndivBoxKey should be found by drmdbg regardless, atleast it is for me. YMMV

Originally Posted by carlos1014

I was having some problems with your GUI. Since you made the source available, I took the liberty of checking it out.

You forgot the lines for the [IndivBoxKey] and [drmv2clt] file paths when building the .ini file... At least that's what I think might have created the issues for me (I was getting "Write memory full" or something to that effect from drmdbg. I added the lines to the source and republished the project and boom! It changed about 20 files (wma) in 3 minutes; whereas it may have taken me 1 hour doing them one by one.

That's the joy of shared/open source

Did you just add blank entries for IndivBoxKey and drmv2clt to the ini file? Or are you putting in the full path to your files? Depending on which way you got it to work, I might add an option to the GUI screen where users can input the location of IndivBoxKey and drmv2clt, otherwise I'll just add blank entries to see if that helps.

[billouparis]

Originally Posted by billouparis

Apparently my last post was not displayed, so I repeat my request for help.

I have 4 movie files of around 1.5GB, with DRM.
I have licences for all of them.
I managed to use drmdbg & freeme2 perfectly on 3 of them.
But when trying to free the last one, I've got a memory error message in return.
After around 35% of operation, freeme2 stops and returns me the error. 'Memory allocation failed in handle_copy"

Any help appreciated...?
Thanks!
Bill

Solution:
I re-downloaded the file that had the problem, and this time, it worked!

[carlos1014]

Originally Posted by tresni

Did you just add blank entries for IndivBoxKey and drmv2clt to the ini file? Or are you putting in the full path to your files? Depending on which way you got it to work, I might add an option to the GUI screen where users can input the location of IndivBoxKey and drmv2clt, otherwise I'll just add blank entries to see if that helps.

I hard coded the path. But you're right, it would be better to give the option to the user, as I know Vista ( ) has the file under a different path. What would be really cool would be to know how drmbg gets the SID info, this way everything could be integrated into your GUI.

If I had the time (meaning, if I wasn't so addicted to TV ), I'd help you redesign your GUI so that the user could select individual files to be stripped; hence the reason I would like to know exactly how drmbg works, it seems a little superflous to have a GUI for a GUI for another program that does the work... With that said, I'm not a C# guy (more of the VB coder myself ), however, whatever assitance I can lend, let me know.

[farmdwg]

So I having a bit of an issue removing DRM from Rhapsody tracks. Below is the versions of everything that I have.

XP Pro SP2
Rhapsody 4.0
WM 11.0.5721.5230
IBX 11.0.6000.6324
drmdbg 12.25.2007 and 1.1.2008

When I go through the process of running drmdbg, it finds the IBX key and then launches WM. I click on the MultiScan button the following errors happen.

ReadProcessMemory_error
WriteProcessMemory_error

I also do not get the expected drm2.key file. I'm guessing that it has to do with the above errors.


My question to everyone.

1) Is there anyway I can force IBX to upgrade to 11.0.6000.7000?

2) Is there a version of drmdbg that is compatible with 11.0.6000.6324?

3) Am I SOL since I'm using Rhaposdy?

4) What else am I missing?


I really appreciate it.

[carlos1014]

Originally Posted by farmdwg

1) Is there anyway I can force IBX to upgrade to 11.0.6000.7000?

2) Is there a version of drmdbg that is compatible with 11.0.6000.6324?

3) Am I SOL since I'm using Rhaposdy?

4) What else am I missing?

1) HowTo Instructions on using Freeme2. Read this post, the first step talks about upgrading the security feature, which will get you the necessary IBX version.

2.) Don't know. Obviously older versions would; however, if you follow the instructions in the forum above, you won't need to worry about that.

3.) A protected WMA is a protected WMA. Freeme2 should not have issues with it.

4.) The drm2.key is probably in a subfolder called DRM2 or something to that effect. You might need to change the file name to drm2.key. While running drmdbg, uncheck the "Create Subfolder" option; this will put the necessary file in the correct folder.

Hope this helps you a little...

[Johnny]

Sorry, but your advice did not solve the problem!

As far as WMP11 used v11.0.6000.7000 drmdbg for this version worked perfect!
But actually it WMP11 uses v11.0.6000.6324 because the wmv, downloaded from a online video provider today, requires this version and drmdbg does not extract the key anymore. Even with an older verison, desinged for v11.0.6000.6324 says it would be unable to get the key.

There might be a strange renewed system.

[FrancoCorelli]

Originally Posted by tresni

Some of the options need to be written, and in C# it's easier to rewrite the entire ini file then to change the specific options. The IndivBoxKey should be found by drmdbg regardless, atleast it is for me. YMMV

Hi, I guess the problem is that not every system is english, therefore it would be better to be able to select the destination if the IndivBoxkey.
Seems like that is causing the problem.
Thanks for putting all this work into the GUI.

[carlos1014]

Originally Posted by Johnny

Sorry, but your advice did not solve the problem!

As far as WMP11 used v11.6000.7000 drmdbg for this version worked perfect!
But actually it WMP11 uses v11.600.6324 because the wmv, downloaded from a online video provider today, requires this version and drmdbg does not extract the key anymore. Even with an older verison, desinged for v11.600.6324 says it would be unable to get the key.

There might be a strange renewed system.

What's strange is a video provider requiring an older version of a security feature, and the newer not being backwards compatible... The provider specifically states the version required for the wmv file?