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Old 11-15-2010, 01:08 PM
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Re: Ripped 100GB of CD's to WMA, then discovered they were protected. Please Help.


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Originally Posted by placebo View Post
i cant help because i never had such a situation before (zero experience). i dont understand how it is possible to rip CDs to *.WMA (on hdd) with DRM-protection. whose DRM-license is it (current owner) and who is the issuer of the license? 100GB equals ~1300-1400 cds (taking an "average bitrate" and "average album total length").
Unfortunately novice users don't know about high quality CD ripping software (like ExactAudioCopy) and codecs (like lossless FLAC), so they use Windows Media Player for ripping CDs. And M$ Evil Corp has set WMP to rip CDs to WMA with DRM protection by default. It is easy to disable this by going to Settings, but novice users usually don't know about the DRM evil until they use the limit of getting licences (for the files the users ripped from their own CDs!)
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