Napster Trick ~ free music for 14 days ~

[Adster]

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[rageagainst]

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

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?

[rageagainst]

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.

[Harsh!]

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

[rageagainst]

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

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.

[asmithz]

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.

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

[namzuf9]

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.
I hate to say it but I may also suscribe....

[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.

[Djtima]

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

[asmithz]

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.

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.