Napster Trick ~ free music for 14 days ~

Popular hack to get unprotected, free music for 14 days


Directions
warlock1711 of club.cdfreaks.com first described this method. By using napster's 14 day free trial and winamp to bypass the DRM, you can get a ton of free music.


1. Download and install winamp
2. Download and install Output Stacker for winamp
3. Download and install Napster
4. You will need to upgrade from napster light and register for the free trial which includes inputting your credit card information.
5. Use napster to download and download
6. Configure winamp and output stacker with the following:

- in winamp click options menu
- click preferences
- click plug-ins
- click output
- click Dietmar's Output Stacker
- click the configure button
- add out_ds.dll from winamp's plug-ins folder
- add out_disk.dll from winamp's plug-ins folder
- select out_disk.dll in the output stacker plug-in and select Configure
- set the output directory
- set the output file mode to Force WAV file

7. Play the protected WMA files in winamp
8. As each file is played, an unprotected wave file will be created in the output directory
9. These *.wav files can be burned straight to a music CD or ripped to MP3s.
10. Remember to turn off this plug in after you are done as EVERYTHING played through winamp will generate a raw *.wav file.
11. Before 2 weeks are over, cancel napster (if you wish)

- In Napster click the My Account menu
- Click Account Status
- Click Cancel Free Trial
- Confirm

http://www.tech-recipes.com/windows_tips832.html

or...

1. Use Ares :D

it'd be cool if i didnt have to give out credit card nfo. :no:

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Originally Posted by lee551

it'd be cool if i didnt have to give out credit card nfo. :no:

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yup...that's what i was thinkin too.
What if you downloaded songs for 14 days, and then one day in your credit card statement you found out that you have been actually charged for all those songs that you downloaded...then you are so fucked!

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Originally Posted by sameer0807

yup...that's what i was thinkin too.
What if you downloaded songs for 14 days, and then one day in your credit card statement you found out that you have been actually charged for all those songs that you downloaded...then you are so fucked!

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that wouldn't happen

or you could just get on kazaa lite or soulseek or winmx and download it...

What's the point? Isn't this illegal technically too? So why go through the trouble?

i guess its just a good "f-u" to them for trying to make the files locked or "protected" or whatever. :music:

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Originally Posted by I the end I

What's the point? Isn't this illegal technically too? So why go through the trouble?

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everything we do is technically illegal, this is just another way to do it. Its nice to see enterprising people finding more ways to steal shit and pass it along..............Its the human thing to do :P

I would do this but I dont have a CC.

It would be good doing this instead of Ares/WinMX/etc... cause these are 100% non-fake files ;)

Plus I think they are good quality.

fuck that i don't even have a credit card anyway

I just installed Napster... it has the option to use PayPal... will this method still work using PayPal?

Looks like they removed the plugin from their site... I cant find a link for it anywhere :(

It works, but really lame way to get music. Very quick tho, i give it that. :)

Kicks ass. Getting all the songs @ 500 kB/s. Just let them encode overnight and burn em tomorrow :)

Has stuff I have never been able to find. If you dont have a credit card, use a PayPal account. Thats what I did.

I have uploaded the needed plugin if anyone needs it... click here.

If you have a credit card and paypal, you might be able to sign up twice :p

hell, just use emule (correct the setting for routers) and download the songs you want. Then try connecting to different servers waiting about 3 seconds each.. connect...connect.. also connect to KAD. This whole process normally gets most songs around 30-200 resources. Faster than Kazaa at that point.

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Originally Posted by Wolfmight

hell, just use emule (correct the setting for routers) and download the songs you want. Then try connecting to different servers waiting about 3 seconds each.. connect...connect.. also connect to KAD. This whole process normally gets most songs around 30-200 resources. Faster than Kazaa at that point.

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Hmm... downloads that starts instantly and use all your bandwith w/o having to configure anything compared to long queu lines and slow d/l while having to configue everything...

I dont know... sounds like a toughy to me... :P

wtf is license server error? I am getting it out of nowhere :(

hi gus, need some help please. My problem:

whenever i try and play the drm wma file in winamp, it doesnt do anything. just sits there. i have done all the things your meant to with out_disk.dll etc. when i try to play a file it auto takes me to this page http://windowsmedia.com/wmrm/wmrm.asp
this does work for downloaded music eh? im really confused to why this dont work. everytime i boot winamp i get a pre nag screen saying " the file you selected is not a valid winamp output plugin" i OK and winamp loads. so im not sure if it this thats cuasing the problems or what. i have tried 2 or 3 differnt output stackers, same thing happens. any ideas?

also, when ever i config out_disk.dll to force wav its always reset the next time i try it, as in the out_disk.dll files etc are no longer shown in the dietmars output stacker plug in.

With the first screen you get.... what version of WM Player do you have?

blah

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Originally Posted by SingaBoiy

With the first screen you get.... what version of WM Player do you have?

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wmp10. i even downloaded the latest verion today in case it was that! i take it your not meant to get that " the file you selected is not a valid winamp output plugin" message then?

thanks to Joe from club.cdfreaks.com for this one. :)


Alright guys here it is. The newest and fastest way to convert your drm wma's to mp3 format. Yes it is faster than using winamp. On my computer it takes about 1 min. to convert one drm wma file to mp3 format(note i am running winamp in the backround and also a antivirus. and also my computer is only 900mgz and 256 mb ram, so it will be much faster for you the better the computer you have.) the downfall to this is you cannot do anything else while vertuosa(yes i said vertuosa, it works like a charm with a little modificaion)is running in the backround. Follow these steps and you will be jamming your legal backup copies of your songs in your car and on your house system.

1. download virtuosa v5.0 you can get it here
http://www.download.com/3000-2167-10018979.html

2. download the lame 3.97a7 zip file found about halfway down this page:
http://www.filemirrors.com/search.src?file=lame3
note: get the lame 3.97a7 zip folder that is about .58mb, if there is more than one, just pick one

3. Install virtuosa v5.0

4. open up virtuosa system folder, the one found on C: drive>program files>virtuosa

5.once you have opened the program file, double click the plugins folder, then once in there double click the MpgL3 folder, you should see a lame dll file in there.

6. unzip the lame 3.97a7 file you downloaded

7. right click on the lame dll file found in the zip file and hit copy

8. go back to the Mpgl3 folder and paste the new lame dll file in there. it will say file already exist do you want to replace, and you will say yes.

9. close everything out and start up virtuosa 5.0

10. BAM!!!! import the tracks you want to convert. click on the first track that you imported located in the movies and audio database located on the right side of the virtuosa media player screen. then scroll down to the last song in the database. click on this while holding down shift. this will highlight all of your songs in the database.

11. right click on the highlighted area. and hit convert and replace.

12. an options box will appear, change the output format to mp3 then hit advance.

13. use the constant bitrate and set your bitrate to whatever you want. i use 128 and it works, i havnt tried it with any other bitrate.

14. check the box support ID2v2 tags(as im assuming this will tag the song when it is converted)hit the checkmark, then hit the next checkmark and give it some time to start up. once it starts up it is smooth sailing. Dont get frustrated if it dont start right away, as the more songs you have highlighted the longer it will take to start up. but like i said once it starts there is no stopping it. Like i said it takes about 1 minute on my computer, with nothing running and a 2.0ghz computer i bet it does take 20 seconds. This sure beats the winamp way. as you can convert 5 to 1 using virtuosa.

note: when right clicking the highlighted area and hitting convert and replace, this will automatically replace your wma to mp3 in its original folder. Now i have heard that there is some kind of problem with napster in doing that, it might mess up the napster program. so i would recomend making a new folder and when you right click the highlighted area to convert and replace, instead of convert and replace use the option convert.. and convert them to the new folder you made.

Why would anybody download or have in there possession DRM files anyways?..
Everybody I know just steers clear of that crap

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Originally Posted by Harsh!

Why would anybody download or have in there possession DRM files anyways?..
Everybody I know just steers clear of that crap

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eh, probably because you can download at light speed from napster for free. and napster has just about any album you can imagine. using my method above is just the same as if you were ripping a wav to mp3. its very quick and very easy.

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Originally Posted by rageagainst

eh, probably because you can download at light speed from napster for free. and napster has just about any album you can imagine. using my method above is just the same as if you were ripping a wav to mp3. its very quick and very easy.

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Yeah i have gotton 600 songs in 2 nights, and it keeps going. 600kb/s each song :) The method you gave me takes less then 20sec for wach song, so this is great. I love how you can search and the song theres that you want, and the album. I have found bands i never heard of, and songs from bands i do know. Way better then any other way of getting music. Sounds bad, but i would be willing to pay for napster :p

I gotta say I'm loving this Napster free trial too. I've found a lot of old stuff that I could'nt get anywhere else (inculding the record shops).
And with the method rageagainst posted I can save them to good quality mp3 for my player. :D
I hate to say it but I may also suscribe....

I'm having some trouble with this trick as of late. It worked fine for the first couple of days but now winamp won't convert any of my files. I've tried un-installing and re-installing winamp as well as the plug-in and it didn't fix anything. If it was just a couple of songs that weren't converting then I would say its the files but since none of them convert I am lead to believe that something is wrong. I also tried the virtuosa trick but virtuosa won't install on my computer. I keep getting some weird error message.

thats just stupid... why not just get anyother P2P fileshaing program with-out the BS...

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Originally Posted by novacaine

I'm having some trouble with this trick as of late. It worked fine for the first couple of days but now winamp won't convert any of my files. I've tried un-installing and re-installing winamp as well as the plug-in and it didn't fix anything. If it was just a couple of songs that weren't converting then I would say its the files but since none of them convert I am lead to believe that something is wrong. I also tried the virtuosa trick but virtuosa won't install on my computer. I keep getting some weird error message.

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Did you see the post by rageagainst? It explains how to convert them without winamp and faster. Winamps new version, i think fixed that xploit.


@Djtima,

It becuase you cant find everything on a p2p client, plus its slower. I get 600kb/s and i have found every song i can think of. Even bands that arnt that know, that you cant get on p2p.

Yes I saw the post by rageagainst, but when I try to install virtuosa I get this error message. "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32|AUTOEXEC.NT. The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application."

Make a back up, override with this

http://www.ggtorrent.com/AUTOEXEC.NT

Try to install it, then put the back up back.

yeah, use my method! its not hard

"Make a back up, override with this

http://www.ggtorrent.com/AUTOEXEC.NT

Try to install it, then put the back up back."


Ok do I back up the virtuosa install file and if so how do I override it? Sorry but I'm really a noob and have no clue as to what to do?

Backup the AUTOEXEC.NT, put my AUTOEXEC.NT over the origanal AUTOEXEC.NT, run the install, then put back the backup AUTOEXEC.NT back where it was. I dont know if it will work but its worth try.

Well I tried it but I still got the error message.

I've had this problem before nova, this fix worked for me.
clicky

Does it matter which service you sign up for with napster?... the 9 dollar one or the 15 dollar one

don't have a cc :(

Napster accept paypal if you've got an account.