WMA Protection
 

Does anyone know any software that converts protected WMA files to mp3?

google wma to mp3 = http://www.wma-mp3.org/

Uh, nah dude. That doesn't WMA files with protection. Just tried it.

google fair4use, may or may not work with some of the newer protected files

google protected wma to mp3 = http://www.alivemedia.net/guide_convert ... ed_wma.htm

only problem is its 1x

Which blows.

that's a good program. Some people can't use it if they have the newer version of wmp (v11 i believe). My roommate could use it cause he didn't give a crap if he had the newest version of wmp--he just used iTunes all the time. I couldn't use it cause i liked the newest version too much to roll back.

There's another program called TuneBite. It basically uses your soundcard and makes a duplicate copy of the song to record a totally new file without any protection rights. This is a lot slower than Fair4use (which is almost instantaneous). TuneBite can go up to speeds of 8x i believe. So if you just convert a huge folder overnight, you should have new files waiting for you in the morning.

Checked out a version of Fair4Use. Works good.

i use tunebite