Removing windows license protection


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I was wondering how to remove the Windows XP license protection on some songs i have. I burnt them on a CD which i had to do becuase the original CD was so scratched up. I format my comp about every 2-3 weeks and i tried to put the songs back on my hardrive and play them (what i do as a routine) but Windows says i cannot play them becuase they are protected. WTF! These are my songs. And i dont have the original becuase i threw it away, which is why i burnt the CD in the first place. SO any help would be nice. :yes:

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You can't re-rip the CDs?

And I *really* wouldn't reformat every 2-3 weeks (if ever). That's taking it just to an extreme which is unncessary. If you're having that much of an issue with clutter, perhaps you should rethink how you use your computer?

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I used windows media player to copy the cds to my HD. It asks if u want to enable security on your music so that others cannot use it. I used Easy Cd Creator 5 by Roxio. I format a lot becuase it keeps my comp running smooth and pretty-like. :)

EDIT: Nope windows media player wont let me re-rip the cd. Protection again. Formatting a lot gets quite annoying and i usually never take up more than 10 gb. I guess it's just habit, but if people think its bad then i will probably stop.

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If your WMA files are secured to your computer using digital rights management, then you can't burn the file to CD. If you burn the DRM file to the CDs and format your HD, you lose your computer unique ID and you can't play that copy over again.

Alcohol 120% will do a copy 1:1.

The most important for passing audio-copy-protection is the hardware!

Best programs are EAC, AudioGrabber, Plextools and Feurio to rip protected Audio CDs to HDs.

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Damn, that sucks. What if i converted the file format? would that work? If not...then i have learned my lesson. :(

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Well... why did you put on copy-protection in the first place? Also, formatting every 2-3 weeks is a bit much...

Edit: Converting should solve your problem, I'm not sure.

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Copy protected audio CDs with Easy CDDA Extractor? >

? Easy CDDA Extractor is one of the oldest and most popular audio CD rippers on the market. Recently the program has been developed for bypassing the audio CD protections. We had a little chat with the author.

The copy protected discs have a data session and an audio session on the CD. Regular CD audio player bypasses the data session and plays the audio portion of the disc. One major issue with copy protections is that some players don?t find the audio session on the disc (for example some MP3 enabled players). Computers read the data sessions and the audio tracks are kind of "behind" the data session.

? Easy CDDA user several measures in order to discover the audio session from the protected CD.

? In the Action menu you?ll find the "Read Table of Contents"-function:

? Auto = reads the disc as usual and recognizes if the TOC is invalid = the disc is protected. The software performs session analysis in order to extract proper TOC information. If this fails the software performs sub-code analysis on the disc for the same purpose.

? Normal = Easy CDDA reads the disc normally and doesn?t detect protections

? Session Analyze = Reads the session information on the disc and looks for the audio session information

? Subcode Analyze = Scans every track on the disc and detects all sessions.

? All drives do not support Session Analyze-function and therefore the Subcode Analyze-function was also developed. With these two methods, any CD drive should be able to discover copy protected audio tracks from the disc.

? However, some drives may still be unable to read the copy protected discs, even though the session information is found. With Plextor drives there shouldn?t be any problems. With Plextor and Easy CDDA I have been able rip every "Copy Controlled" disc available on the local market.

? I believe that Macrovision has some more advanced protection developed, but I haven?t had a chance to experiment it with yet. I am certain that it is possible to bypass some way too, in case that current Easy CDDA version couldn?t handle it (untested).

That will take care of your protected CDs.

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if you ever put protection on the cds again, do a license backup in windows media or download the bonus pack it has license management software.

I don't know if this true or not but there used to be a microsoft hosted website for getting your licenses back.

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Format every 2-3 weeks? WOW

Dude, seriously, learn to use your computer properly and maintain it and you wont have to.

Also, if you do alot of tweaking like i do, backup and backup.

Otherwise, use the Disk Defragmentor and Disk Cleanup feature native in XP to make it run sweeter.

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