The only remotely usable piece of software (a piece of shit called CD Master) was one that would pass certain parameters to Windows Media Player instructing it to write a disc, and the other software would then read and rip that disc to wave or MP3 or OGG. But withough a burner, it just crashed, leaving me back at square one.

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As for burning it, what version of Media Player. I know for a fact that 8 and above will let you burn right from Media Player itself. I would think that you can use it to burn DRM'd media straight to disc as an audio track, if not as a file.

Found this as an alternative, it requires Nero Wave Editor. It amounts to the out to in approach.
http://www.tech-recipes.com/windows_tips859.html

As it stands, this is a borderline topic though, not really good discussion for a public board on the internet. Of course, this is all just theory right?

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ROFL!! Just for you Willy I wasted 2 (because I had to make and test the DRM'd file) of the best CD's money can buy. (Tayo Yuden if anyone is wondering) But I was succesfully able to turn a DRM'd wma file into a CD audio track using Windows Media Player. You just need a burner. CDRW drives are so cheap now, that she should just invest in one anyway.

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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

As for the legality, I will fight to my dying breath that this sort of file manipulation falls under completely acceptible fair use rights, and that anything within recent law to prevent it from happening goes against the will and judicial precedent that established upon the constitution.

And AW, use CD-RWs next time.

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I only mentioned it as being a borderline topic because it IS illegaly to bust the copy protection, even though it IS legal to use the music she paid for. I'm heartily in agreement with you.

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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

Here is a link to a page telling you how to rip tivo files: http://www.apecity.com/tivo/

and another one: http://drwho.virtadpt.net/mirrored-pages/tivo_to_go_mpeg2_decrypting/tivo_to_go_mpeg2_decrypting.html

This won't answer your question on how to remove DRM for music but perhaps the examples on how to do it for a tivo file might help. Sorry, I'm not much help with this, I just found the instructions and did the bare minimum to do what I wanted to do. What did I want to do?
http://www.bodoin.com/mpeg

There are two commercials that I took from TV, nothing too much in breach of copyright. I thought they were funny and wanted to show folks back home i.e. people who wouldn't ordinarily have the opportunity to see them.

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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

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In the future, persue downloading services that don't use DRM.

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Had I been downloading the files, they would not have been from a DRM service. Like I said, it was my sister, and after this, she's pretty pissed and will probably avoid them in the future.

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