cannot play ripped music files

[Curt]

Hey, leave Ryan Shupe out of this. 
He has some good songs though - IMNSHO.

-steeladept (March 14, 2009, 04:30 AM)

I am listening to the Dream Big album right now, and I totally like it 
I really need to get the other albums as well!
Thanks, steeladept, for telling!   

[Curt]

Hey, leave Ryan Shupe out of this.  
He has some good songs though - IMNSHO.

-steeladept (March 14, 2009, 04:30 AM)

I am listening to the Dream Big album right now, and I totally like it  
I really need to get the other albums as well!
Thanks, steeladept, for telling!  

-Curt (March 14, 2009, 06:27 AM)

New album: http://www.shupe.net...ct_info.php?idnum=63 Brand New Shoes



$12.95

PostHeeHawFunkadelicHipHopNewGrass in its finest form!

[Curt]

Trying to find a solution
.....
When I try to open one of the files with WMP I get this error:

A license is required to play this file

-techidave (March 12, 2009, 12:35 PM)

Did you find a solution to the problem? 

[techidave]

not really.  someone suggested that I rip them as mp3s because they weren't  bothered by DRM so much.

doesn't help much when its been ripped as a wma and you cannot find the original cd. 

[Curt]

I am wondering why this thread didn't change into "how to remove drm"? There are plenty of programs to do it, just make your choice; they were basically all made by the same one or two programmers...

There are no freewares in this niche, as far as I know. DrmRemoval's "Unlimited" versions will both rip from CD and remove DRM in the same move. You can freely test them for 30 seconds of each track.

Drm-Removal editions comparison chart: http://drm-removal.c...atest_DrmRemoval.htm

Edited: Sorry, I was babbling. I forgot the first premise; that your new computer doesn't have the necessary license.

[techidave]

I never thought about looking for a drm removal tool and apparently no one else did either until now.

and this thread is a little over a year old too.

[steeladept]

New album: http://www.shupe.net...ct_info.php?idnum=63 Brand New Shoes
 (see attachment in previous post)
$12.95

PostHeeHawFunkadelicHipHopNewGrass in its finest form!

-Curt (July 12, 2010, 03:04 AM)

COOL.  

Unecessary threadjack.  Open only if you don't care that it doesn't apply to the original post at all  

Spoiler

Up till this came out, we had all the albums he put out.  The most interesting part to me was how I learned of him.  Back in the late 90's/early 2000 time frame I got an IOmega microdrive/MP3 player (can't remember what is was called).  Anyway, it came with a 40MB microdisk that had sampler music on it and BanjoBoy was one of those songs (along with a few other good ones I can't recall at the moment).  They were all "no name" artists at the time and I really took to Ryan Shupe.  Enough to look it up and find out he had 4 or 5 albums (I don't count Live since it is just a live release of Simplify - well, more or less).  We got all of them at the time.  Actually I see there are two we are missing now - Brand New Shoes (just released) and it's predecessor, Last Man Standing.  Not counting those two, though, as an album I liked Simplify best.

[superboyac]

I see no good solution for your situation if you don't have the cd's anymore.  wma's suck, I'd never ever use them.  For me, there are only two options: lossless, or mp3.  If you go lossless, just use FLAC files or APE or something like that, and if you want compressed files, use mp3 (LAME encode).

dbpoweramp is a brilliant piece of software.  As a last minute rescue, go on the original computer and use dbpoweramp to convert all those wma's to mp3, and transfer those to the new computer.  You will lose a lot of quality in the conversion, but that's all I can think of.  You can also use another software to do it, but dbp is really easy to use and amazing.

Or, you can download the songs pre-ripped from any of several online places.  That would probably be the better option, but it may cost you a little!