| James1138 | 8 | 01:13 |
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| James1138 | Hello from Indiana and tricky question. Over all these years of Linux - has anyone found a way to remove protection from WMA files? The reason I ask is I found some old USB with music from the days I still was into Windows XP but the music is WMA format. | 01:13 |
| Hydragyrum | just convert it to mp3 or the like? | 01:15 |
| Hydragyrum | I've never had any issues with converting wma | 01:15 |
| Hydragyrum | (though tbf fewer things support it on linux) | 01:16 |
| buZz | i assume its some DRM issue | 01:26 |
| James1138 | Yep - appears DRM issue. I rather not go through the hassle of burning to CD - just to convert to MP3. | 01:27 |
| * Hydragyrum didn't even realize wma supported drm | 01:28 | |
| Hydragyrum | can you do playback of the files? | 01:28 |
| James1138 | Nope. Tried MPlayer, VLC and SMplayer - any suggestions are more than welcome! | 01:29 |
| buZz | James1138: you can burn to CDRW, and erase later for reuse ;) | 01:30 |
| * Hydragyrum assumes googling it/etc. has been tried already | 01:30 | |
| buZz | or | 01:31 |
| James1138 | Didn't think about that! | 01:31 |
| buZz | a CDR is like 20 cents? just toss it | 01:31 |
| Hydragyrum | I've got a stack of a few dozen that I got for less than $5 | 01:33 |
| Hydragyrum | comes in handy sometimes | 01:33 |
| rwp | The two main utilities I use for audio conversions are sox and ffmpeg. I would try one of those to do the conversion. | 01:36 |
| rwp | James1138, I would try: ffmpeg -i audiofile.wma audiofile.ogg | 01:37 |
| rwp | Substitute ogg with mp3 or wav as you desire. mp3 probably requires libmp3lame0 (or newer version) to be installed. | 01:38 |
| Hydragyrum | afaik sox doesn't support wma | 04:08 |
| rwp | Doesn't it? Oh well. :-( | 04:14 |
| rwp | Bummer! http://sox.sourceforge.net/Docs/Features | 04:14 |
| rwp | ffmpeg handles wma though: https://askubuntu.com/questions/508278/how-to-use-ffmpeg-to-convert-wma-to-mp3-recursively-importing-from-txt-file | 04:16 |
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