Need Music Conversion Help

[R. Richard]

Music conversion problem, HELP!
I have an extensive collection of 50's, 60's music in the hard disc of a Windows 7 computer. Most of the songs won't play in a Windows 10 computer. I have tried to convert the songs from .WMA format to .MP3 format, which will play in the Windows 10 computer. However, songs that will play in the Windows 7 computer won't convert to .MP3 format, citing Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection. I'm using an NCH conversion routine. Can someone suggest a workable means to convert my songs? TIA!

 

[HandsInTheDark]

I've got no good suggestions - nch is what I'd recommend.

You can try playing it on win7 and telling your sound device to record what it is playing. There's fidelity loss. But DRM probably can't block it. In a pinch, even cheap usb sound devices have an audio out that can be connected to a pc input.

If DRM. Is hurting you on Win7, I vaguely remember there's a root kit hack to remove DRM checks from the system. Win10 - no idea. Microsoft doesn't have enough money to bribe me to run that abortion of an OS.

Condolences on your losses - both running win10 and all your music. This is why I refused to buy anything containing DRM - and why I've bought my last OS from MS.

Anyone know if Linux can help? Linux installs have gotten easy.

 

[NotWise]

Anyone know if Linux can help? Linux installs have gotten easy.

I've never had problems with DRM on my Linux boxes, but I may not have anything so encoded. As near as I can tell DRM does not yet exist in Linux.

Linux is free and installation in a stand-alone system is easy, but learning to use it and getting the right software to do the copies involves a learning curve -- and then there's the chance that it won't do the job.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Music conversion problem, HELP!
I have an extensive collection of 50's, 60's music in the hard disc of a Windows 7 computer. Most of the songs won't play in a Windows 10 computer. I have tried to convert the songs from .WMA format to .MP3 format, which will play in the Windows 10 computer. However, songs that will play in the Windows 7 computer won't convert to .MP3 format, citing Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection. I'm using an NCH conversion routine. Can someone suggest a workable means to convert my songs? TIA!

Try here download the wma to mp3 item. I have used in the past on both Vista and Win7.

 

[karaline]

Music conversion problem, HELP!
I have an extensive collection of 50's, 60's music in the hard disc of a Windows 7 computer. Most of the songs won't play in a Windows 10 computer. I have tried to convert the songs from .WMA format to .MP3 format, which will play in the Windows 10 computer. However, songs that will play in the Windows 7 computer won't convert to .MP3 format, citing Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection. I'm using an NCH conversion routine. Can someone suggest a workable means to convert my songs? TIA!

okay i'm not too knowledgable about all this stuff but i thought i may as well make suggestions as well as not.

my first thought is VLC, do you use it already? its free, open source and its very good. it won't convert your files but i've never known it not to play anything. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

another thought is Audacity, this is a free music editing app, like vlc its open source, which leads me to conclude they might be less concerned with stuff like DRM ands it seems supper geeky when i've used it and i just get the feeling it might be a way of getting round it. http://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/

anyway, i hope that helps, or that someone who actually knows what they're taking about comes along to make suggestions

 

[Handley_Page]

First, put all your music onto playable CDs.

You might try and run the player in "compatibility mode", perhaps ?