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blbx93 
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Posted: September 04 2006 at 13:47 |
I got some free 30 day subscription to napster at circuit city, and they have some pretty good prog stuff. I was wondering if I burned cds off of napster, if the cds would even work after the subscription is up.
If anyone knows how it works help me out, because I don't want to waste time making cds and wasting them.
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heyitsthatguy
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Posted: September 04 2006 at 13:48 |
 blbx93 wrote:
I got some free 30 day subscription to napster at circuit city, and they have some pretty good prog stuff. I was wondering if I burned cds off of napster, if the cds would even work after the subscription is up.
If anyone knows how it works help me out, because I don't want to waste time making cds and wasting them.
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I'm sure that they'll work fine, but you better watch yourself, Lars Ulrich may have a sniper rifle trained on your forehead 
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Eetu Pellonpaa
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Posted: September 04 2006 at 15:26 |
The files on a CD can't refer to any dates, so they'll work, no "self destruction" mechanisms lie in mp3s. I have understood, that files with a time based lisence can't even be burned on to CD's / DVD's without tricks.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: September 05 2006 at 02:47 |
heyitsthatguy wrote:
blbx93 wrote:
I got some free 30 day subscription to napster at circuit city, and they have some pretty good prog stuff. I was wondering if I burned cds off of napster, if the cds would even work after the subscription is up.
If anyone knows how it works help me out, because I don't want to waste time making cds and wasting them.
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I'm sure that they'll work fine, but you better watch yourself, Lars Ulrich may have a sniper rifle trained on your forehead
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Perhaps you should have a look at www.napster.com and find out what it actually is ... it's not 2001 anymore.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: September 05 2006 at 02:49 |
Eetu Pellonpää wrote:
The files on a CD can't refer to any dates, so they'll work, no "self destruction" mechanisms lie in mp3s. I have understood, that files with a time based lisence can't even be burned on to CD's / DVD's without tricks. |
Napster has nothing to do with mp3 - they use DRM-protected WMA files. As far as I know you can't burn any of these files to an audio CD without buying them first. Have a look at their homepage, they go to great lengths to explain the whole process. 
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Eetu Pellonpaa
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Posted: September 05 2006 at 03:30 |
Just what I thought, WMA's.  These filetypes can hold the qualities which the mp3's lack in my previous description. Well, they can be transcribed to other formats with illegal and hideous acts of black arts, which I refrain from describing here and thus escape the gods wrath. 
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: September 05 2006 at 04:10 |
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Don't be so mad about DRM ... if you purchase tracks from Napster you can burn them to audio CDs in the Napster client. The resulting CDs are free of DRM, and you can copy them as much as you want.
BTW: The much more interesting part of Napster is the subscription based model ... you can download as much as you want, and listen to it as often as you want for $10/month.
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Eetu Pellonpaa
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Posted: September 05 2006 at 04:58 |
^ Sorry about my personal antipations.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: September 05 2006 at 05:04 |
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What sucks about Napster though is that it is only available in a few selected countries.
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Eetu Pellonpaa
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Posted: September 05 2006 at 05:35 |
As a legal company, I believe it requires some tasks to get to other contries markets? But at least they are an example of a company which started as unlegal team, got punishde by the officials, and moved to legal markets after that as a new legal and nearly similar version of the same service provider.
What do you think, could they have reached bigger markets by abadoning their old name? The brand is strong, but it holds both stigmas of piracy and humiliation before authorities.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: September 22 2006 at 05:56 |
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^ I think the targetted audience of the new legal Napster are just those people who used to share files illegaly. Abandoning the original name would definitely be a bad idea.
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Neil
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Posted: October 06 2006 at 09:03 |
Although there may be some minor loss of quality you can play the tracks on your PC, through whatever media player you use and at the same time record them into Adobe Audition or similar on the same PC. Just set your sound card to record the wav output.
The files that you then create will be new files with no locking or signatures and you can do what you like with them.
Neil.
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