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

[thetoad]

sectroyer, I don't run vista in general for my DRMing stuff (heck, I'm generally in Linux). However, There are files that will only get authorized in vista, hence why ignoring it doesn't really help all people.

But with that said, thanks for your work. hopefully people will figure out how to get it to work with vista eventually.

[wadster21]

Originally Posted by wadster21

We're definitely on the same page there. I stopped using it a while ago. I used it back in the day when all the 99 cent downloads started, but have since switched to Amazon (89 cents, higher bitrate, and no drm).

However, it seems like the licenses for all the songs that I got through zune can only be acquired by playing the song in zune, which reinstalls 11.0.6000.6324 and messes everything up.

Does anyone know of any other way to acquire the licenses for my protected .wma files besides through zune?

Any suggestions for this yet? Is there a way to get the licenses for my protected .wma files without having to play them in zune? Sorry to quote myself, but I really want to get this figured out. Thanks.

So I have wmp 11.0.6001.7000 on vista and I followed all the instuctions. However, after upgrading drm components, the drm folder C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\DRM\ does not exist. I checked the registry and that is the correct location. Please tell me what i am doing wrong.

Thanks

Originally Posted by chedder66

So I have wmp 11.0.6001.7000 on vista and I followed all the instuctions. However, after upgrading drm components, the drm folder C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\DRM\ does not exist. I checked the registry and that is the correct location.

Windows Media Player 10/11: How to determine IBX version (Windows XP)

[wadster21]

Originally Posted by wadster21

Any suggestions for this yet? Is there a way to get the licenses for my protected .wma files without having to play them in zune? Sorry to quote myself, but I really want to get this figured out. Thanks.

I guess I'm going to have to wait and see if these lossless programs get updated in the future to beat the new IBX, since there doesn't seem to be any other way to acquire the licenses. If anyone does find a way to do it, please post on here. Thanks.

Originally Posted by Stream Recorder

Windows Media Player 10/11: How to determine IBX version (Windows XP)

Thanks for the response but I have tried that and it seems that C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\DRM does not exist on my computer. Show hidden files is checked because I am able to see the ProgramData folder but the DRM folder is not there. I have confirmed that this is the correct location by looking at the registry key. I don't know what else to do

Originally Posted by sectroyer

[*]Extract your license keys. You can do this with drmdbg. If you use drmdbg you can take the drm2-i.key file generated by drmdbg, rename it to drm2.key and copy it to the FreeMe2 folder.

i seem to be stuck here. here's my setup:

• winxp with no hidden files
• drmdbg 2008/01/01 10:20 for IndivBox.key v11.0.6000.7000
• media player version 11.0.5721.5145

when i run drmdbg it says "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\DRM\Cache\Indiv02.key v11.0.6000.6324" to the left of the "Multi Scan" button. I click the multiscan button.. it plays the movie, but it doesn't create any keys.

any ideas what i need to do? freeme2 is asking for my IBX key & SID. I just hit enter on the IBX question (i have no idea what I should put there if anything). And my understanding is that I need to run drmdbg to get my SID. hence, i'm stuck

Any help would be appreciated!

Here's my console from running freeme2:

C:\Temp\drm>freeme2 p4.wmv
Enter IBX private key or hit enter:

Decrypted content key is too big!
Enter SID for this file:

So I saw this message "When I click on FreeM2.exe it gives this message :

Usage: FreeM2 [-vs2] protectedfile
Press <ENTER> to acknoledge error

It doesn't say which error and when I press "enter" it closes." I am having this same problem, but I have not seen anyone answer this question.... how do I get around this. Any advice would be grand

Originally Posted by sectroyer

Tell me what is the size of your drmv2.lic file. But I think this is not the problem. The real reason is that Vista has many bugs One of them is that it doesn't allow some files (i.e. FreeMe2) to allocate as much memory as they want . You may try uninstalling Vista and FreeMe2 should work.

I actually do not have Vista, I uninstalled it long ago, because it sucks..... Any other ideas?

[ZenMasta]

Here's my progress so far. I tried at home but turns out I have the newer indivbox key and I didn't want to mess with WMP so I am trying on a different pc that is also win xp pro. I started by going to add/remove programs and removing wmp 11 and the runtime. Rather then uninstalling it asked it just said rolling back to wmp 10. So after rebooting Iwent again to add/remove programs and choose add/remove windows components. I selected windows media player. This rolled me back to 9.5

I uninstalled rhapsody.

Then I rebooted and installed WMP10, then installed rhapsody, rhapsody said it needed an update to wmp 9 and 11 runtime so it installed it.

I then downloaded drmdbg and freeme2
I edited my drmdbg.ini like the original poster suggested. Here is my complete ini.

[Form1]
State=0
Left=30
Top=128
[wmvdir]
path=C:\Program Files\drmdbg\
[drm2dir]
path=C:\Program Files\FreeMe2\
[TopWindow]
0_or_1=0

[IndivBoxKey]
path=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\DRM\Cache\Indiv02.key
[drmv2clt]
path=C:\WINDOWS\system32\drmv2clt.dll
[MakeDRM2Dir]
0_or_1=1
[SubDirScan]
0_or_1=1

I am 100% certain that I have show hidden files and folders enabled.
I navigated to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\DRM\Cache\

but it was empty.

Regardless of that I decided to copy one DRM file into the drmdbg folder and then double click drmdbg.exe

The box just next to multiscan displayed
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\DRM\Cache\Indiv02.key v11.0.6000.7000

So that looked like it is supposed to.
Then the WMV dir is C:\Program Files\drmdbg\
and the DRM2 Dir is C:\Program Files\FreeMe2\

Makr DRM2 Dir and Sub Dir Scan were both ticked.

When I clicked multi scan it found the WMA file that was in the drmdbg folder and it displayed below showing the full path/filename.

And in the final box it also showed
<DRM2WMV2>
<KID>some characters</KID>
<SID>some characters</SID>
<INFO></INFO>
</DRM2WMV2>

Then I went to the freeme2 folder and the DRM2 folder does exist with a file called DRM2.key. Opening the file will show the XML or whatever code that drmdbg displayed for each file you scanned.

Then I tried dragging and dropping the same file (meaning the WMA file that was in the drmdbg folder) onto freeme2.exe

The cmd prompt window opened up and showed a progress animation in black and gray text. When it got to 100% it closed and in the drmdbg folder was a new file called
Freed-myfile.wma

So after successfully being able to do tracks one at a time, I tried the perl that was in this topics first post. I had to install active perl first though of course.

I took 3 folders that contained 1 drm file each and moved them to a 2nd hard drive (just for testing sake I didn't want to test on my entire library yet.The objective was to confirm that the batch would scan all the subfolders and then free each file.

So my folder was like this
e:\testfolder\freeme2 batch.pl
e:\testfolder\folder1
e:\testfolder\folder2
e:\testfolder\folder3

drmdbg opened and successfully scanned found the key for each file. However freeme2 did not launch and begin the decryption process.

Then when I went to drag and drop the file one at a time onto freeme2.exe

The window said
No ENABLINGBITS elements in license!
Press <ENTER> to ackknowledge error.
And doing so closes the window

So for some reason only ONE of my DRM tracks can be freed Every other I've tried so far shows the error.

I don't understand why this process would only work for one of my files. They are all from the same provider and the licenses were acquired the same day.

Before I dragged and dropped the WMA files onto freeme I confirmed that the DRM2.key file contained 4 unique KID/SID entries