anyone has experience on Rhopsody's annoying drm issue

[ming2000]

as the title says, i downloaded music from rhopsody, but cannot play on my oofice computer. i asked their customer service, and was told that i need install their stupid software and connect to internet and redownload the music with my office computer. but i cannot install any software to my officemusic, that means i paid for the music, but i have no right to enjoy it because of the drm issue

anyone know any software can help me out. thx.

 

[CKent]

Nothing like punishing the consumer for making a legal purchase... You bought DRM'd music, you dug your own hole.

 

[JohnAn2112]

Yep, one of the many annoyances with DRM music. You can always burn a CD with the songs you downloaded and rip them back into MP3s and that will strip the songs of any DRM protection. I'm not sure how legal that is though. I would imagine that's a gray area.

 

[ming2000]

Thx for response. I googled this topic and found that method too, but it would eat up all my cdr very soon since I download quite a lot songs, so im still looking for a better and cheaper method.

Originally posted by: JohnAn2112
Yep, one of the many annoyances with DRM music. You can always burn a CD with the songs you downloaded and rip them back into MP3s and that will strip the songs of any DRM protection. I'm not sure how legal that is though. I would imagine that's a gray area.

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: JohnAn2112
Yep, one of the many annoyances with DRM music. You can always burn a CD with the songs you downloaded and rip them back into MP3s and that will strip the songs of any DRM protection. I'm not sure how legal that is though. I would imagine that's a gray area.

It's a grey area, and will also result in significant loss of sound quality. When your source is 128bit, you can't afford to lose much more unless you think the $0.25 phones that come with an ipod are high quality

 

[ming2000]

I just found one software, fairuse4wm, sounds pretty cool, remove the drm, without losing the quality of the music, i dont know how to use it though, anyone has experience on it?

 

[kamper]

Originally posted by: ming2000
Thx for response. I googled this topic and found that method too, but it would eat up all my cdr very soon since I download quite a lot songs, so im still looking for a better and cheaper method.

Spend a $ or two on a cdrw

Originally posted by: CKent
It's a grey area, and will also result in significant loss of sound quality. When your source is 128bit, you can't afford to lose much more unless you think the $0.25 phones that come with an ipod are high quality

How much can you be losing? Writing it to a cd shouldn't cause any loss. If you re-rip to the same format, wouldn't it preserve roughly the same information?

But yeah, on the whole, buying low quality sound, with no physical backup, no album art and it's artificially crippled = bad idea.

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: kamper

Originally posted by: ming2000
Thx for response. I googled this topic and found that method too, but it would eat up all my cdr very soon since I download quite a lot songs, so im still looking for a better and cheaper method.

Spend a $ or two on a cdrw

Originally posted by: CKent
It's a grey area, and will also result in significant loss of sound quality. When your source is 128bit, you can't afford to lose much more unless you think the $0.25 phones that come with an ipod are high quality

How much can you be losing? Writing it to a cd shouldn't cause any loss. If you re-rip to the same format, wouldn't it preserve roughly the same information?

But yeah, on the whole, buying low quality sound, with no physical backup, no album art and it's artificially crippled = bad idea.

It's like a picture of a picture, you lose a bit each time.

 

[Czar]

create an audio cd, convert it to an ISO, mount the iso using daemon tools, rip the audio cd

 

[jazzboy]

Just burn it to CD then rip it in a lossless format like WAV or WMA lossless (with the DRM option off ).

Then they'll be no more quality loss.

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: CKent
Nothing like punishing the consumer for making a legal purchase... You bought DRM'd music, you dug your own hole.

Yep.

 

[erikistired]

Originally posted by: ming2000
as the title says, i downloaded music from rhopsody, but cannot play on my oofice computer. i asked their customer service, and was told that i need install their stupid software and connect to internet and redownload the music with my office computer. but i cannot install any software to my officemusic, that means i paid for the music, but i have no right to enjoy it because of the drm issue

anyone know any software can help me out. thx.

it's not their fault you can't install software on your office computer...so your rights really aren't being violated here. i think i heard there is a rhapsody portable coming out soon, perhaps that will solve your problem.