WMA CONVERTER SOFTWARE

Is anyone out there purchasing legal music off of the internet? I have purchased legal tracks from musicmatch jukebox and have purchased wma to mp3 converter software to decode them from wma to mp3 format. I keep getting the following error:The following file format is not valid, can not convert it to wav format. The support group said that this is not legal. Then why the hell did they sell me the software? I thought this process was legal. I might as well go back to downloading illegal tracks just like the rest of America. It's a shame when you try and do the right thing and they say this is illegal. What a joke. I welcome your responses.

Unfortunately it is very likely that your WMA files are DRM protected, and so they cannot be directly converted to MP3 as they are encrypted, and it would be a DMCA violation...
Try checking if you can burn them on CD however, it might give you some extra solutions...

"tmblack" wrote:

> Is anyone out there purchasing legal music off of the internet? I have purchased legal tracks from musicmatch jukebox and have purchased wma to mp3 converter software to decode them from wma to mp3 format. I keep getting the following error:The following file format is not valid, can not convert it to wav format. The support group said that this is not legal. Then why the hell did they sell me the software? I thought this process was legal. I might as well go back to downloading illegal tracks just like the rest of America. It's a shame when you try and do the right thing and they say this is illegal. What a joke. I welcome your responses.

Thanks for responding. No you cannot burn wma files without converting them to mp3 format, I am now getting the following error message: you have encountered an unknown error. see web page for help. I thought purchasing the wma to mp3 converter software would solve the problem, but as you know this doesn't work due to music being licensed protected. I'm stuck.

Treasia in Morrilton

"Zarax [Digital Media MVP]" wrote:

> Unfortunately it is very likely that your WMA files are DRM protected, and so they cannot be directly converted to MP3 as they are encrypted, and it would be a DMCA violation...
> Try checking if you can burn them on CD however, it might give you some extra solutions...
>
> "tmblack" wrote:
>
> > Is anyone out there purchasing legal music off of the internet? I have purchased legal tracks from musicmatch jukebox and have purchased wma to mp3 converter software to decode them from wma to mp3 format. I keep getting the following error:The following file format is not valid, can not convert it to wav format. The support group said that this is not legal. Then why the hell did they sell me the software? I thought this process was legal. I might as well go back to downloading illegal tracks just like the rest of America. It's a shame when you try and do the right thing and they say this is illegal. What a joke. I welcome your responses.