Digital rights management (DRM) media

[ulTRAX]

I mean, why wouldn't it be legal? You DO pay for the songs...

Since we all already paid licensing rights when we invested in LPs and VHS video... think the recording or video industry will ever provide us discounts when we upgrade to CDs or DVDs?

[drfsupercenter]

Now if only I could get around the 30 sec limitation...

[ulTRAX]

Hi, Lou! I've heared about such program - "SoundTaxi". You may learn about it here: http://www.soundtaxi.info/english/index.php
I like it cause it's easy, quick and solves the problem of DRM successfully

Interesting. Is it breaking DRM or just fooling the the DRM into thinking it's a virtual CD drive... THEN converting to mp3?

[drfsupercenter]

It is breaking it. Works great but you only get 30 seconds of your song unless you buy it.

[drfsupercenter]

Do you think it is worth just buying it for $15? Or is there a free way to do this?

[ulTRAX]

It is breaking it. Works great but you only get 30 seconds of your song unless you buy it.

Maybe the only way to know if it's removing the DRM off a song or is virtually creating a CD drive then converting to mp3 is to try Sound Taxi on the same song more times than you're allowed to burn CDs.

I have to be honest... I have no use for current DRM schemes. I've never used any P2P file sharing networks.... and only buy from legitimate services like iTunes and Real... but their DRM schemes are designed to trap users in a proprietary monopoly. It's a classic example of capitalism at its most pathological.... limiting choice while keeping prices high. As soon as I buy a song I convert it to a lossless format out of principle.

I'd much prefer ONE source with the best selection of songs... instead of having to hunt though various inferior collections... and often never finding what I want.

[drfsupercenter]

If you use iTunes, try this www.hymn-project.org - I love it! (must be version 5.1 or below, if you have 6 let me know and I will give you a 4.9 installer)

I am just thinking, burning/ripping loses quality, maybe I should spend $15 on SoundTaxi.

[ulTRAX]

If you use iTunes, try this www.hymn-project.org - I love it! (must be version 5.1 or below, if you have 6 let me know and I will give you a 4.9 installer)

I am just thinking, burning/ripping loses quality, maybe I should spend $15 on SoundTaxi.

Thanks for that... I'd never heard of JHymn. Not that I'd ever use it if it meant breaking the law!

[drfsupercenter]

I just bought SoundTaxi for 15 bucks, seems to work great so far (only did one song, LOL)

[drfsupercenter]

Thanks for that... I'd never heard of JHymn. Not that I'd ever use it if it meant breaking the law!

It's all legal, read the site. After all, you DO pay for the song...

[vicent]

SPAM from rule 16 breaker omitted and "both" members banned.

Regards

[drfsupercenter]

Yeah it worked fine for me.

Did you pay for it? I had to spend the $15 to get an activation number so that I could get the full version.

[jbraker]

So is this SoundTaxi really for real, then? All I can find out about it review-wise are the hundreds of phony reviews that someone from the company has posed all over every forum and shareware site... All the real reviews I read said that it screwed up everyone's computer - I took a risk and installed the trial, and I thought it worked fine, and sounded really good, but didn't know if it was worth the $15 if it was a fly-by-night sort of operation and might not work... Oddly, its also sold as WMAconvert, with an identical website at a different address: http://www.wma-convert.com/
If you folks who are using it will endorse it, I'll gladly pay $15 for a working solution...

[veld]

Hm! Why not if it works sweet - tried and tested with AOLMusic

[toomanycats]

Why don't you guys just use the audio out from your players to the audio input of your computer and try the old fashion way. If your listening with headphones you will not hear any degradation. If you have a high end unit the MP3 will sound like crap anyway so you hav'nt lost anything anyhow. You'll end up with a file you can do anything with.