So, I took advantage of some freebies from Futureshop and their bonfire music store, which is a front for Puretracks.
Anyway, the files I bought are WMA with digital rights protection (or whatever it's called). According to the license, I can burn it to cd three times and download it to a portable music device three times.
However, my ipod doesn't support wma, and I can't seem to convert the songs from wma to mp3. What am I missing here? Is there some magic Windows media converter that I need? Is that the cyberlink or intervideo thing?
That really pisses me off that I have to pay MS (or anyone) an extra fee to play my legally obtained music on my ipod (on which I also paid an extra "we assume you steal music so we're gonna levy a $25 tax on it and make you pay that, regardless of how/where you get your music" fee. :evil:
Anyway, if someone knows a free way to get this accomplished, I'd be most appreciative. Or if you can confirm that indeed, the $10 MP3 xpack thing is software I need, then I'll give in to the "man" and do that. I'd just hate to pay the $10 and then have it not work.
I also tried importing and converting via iTunes, Xplay, JRiver Media Center, and none of them would do it.
Thanks,
Mike
Anyway, the files I bought are WMA with digital rights protection (or whatever it's called). According to the license, I can burn it to cd three times and download it to a portable music device three times.
However, my ipod doesn't support wma, and I can't seem to convert the songs from wma to mp3. What am I missing here? Is there some magic Windows media converter that I need? Is that the cyberlink or intervideo thing?
That really pisses me off that I have to pay MS (or anyone) an extra fee to play my legally obtained music on my ipod (on which I also paid an extra "we assume you steal music so we're gonna levy a $25 tax on it and make you pay that, regardless of how/where you get your music" fee. :evil:
Anyway, if someone knows a free way to get this accomplished, I'd be most appreciative. Or if you can confirm that indeed, the $10 MP3 xpack thing is software I need, then I'll give in to the "man" and do that. I'd just hate to pay the $10 and then have it not work.
I also tried importing and converting via iTunes, Xplay, JRiver Media Center, and none of them would do it.
Thanks,
Mike