Re: wma drm not playable on sandisk mp3 companion

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From: Chris Lanier [MVP] (cal2002a_at_hotmail.NOSPAM.com)
Date: 10/06/04 

Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 22:29:36 -0500

Nope. The only way you can do it is to burn a standard Audio CD then rip
the files back off that CD. Remember, you have lost a extreme amount of
quality at this point. 

-- 
Chris Lanier
Microsoft MVP - Digital Media
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"kj" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:2c6701c4ab19$941e1cb0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> we purchased a few sandisk mp3 companions (they use the
> sandisk cruzer micro for storage).  they do not have the
> capability to play wma with DRM.  They can only play
> regular wma or mp3.  we have legally purchased music from
> wal-mart.com which is wma with DRM.  How can we get these
> to play on the mp3 players?  I am new to using windows
> media player so there may be an obvious solution that I'm
> just not aware of.  one tech support person suggested
> copying them to cd-r music disks (CDA format) and then
> use conversion software to take them from CDA to wave or
> wma - I'm just checking to see if there is a simple
> solution within windows media player that we have
> missed. -thanks
> .
>
>

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