7digital downloads - how to play them in mp3 player?

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Hillbilly · #1 Post by **Hillbilly** » Tue 17 Oct 2006, 7:47 am

I have downloaded - and paid for - the two new b-sides from 7digital.com. They are in Windows Media format, and now I wonder: how do I play them in my mp3 player?

I know for sure that the player is meant to play both mp3 and wma files, but whenever I download a song in wma it can't be played. This time it says "no authority" if I try to put "Bright young things" or "Party song". I know there is a kind of "license" for this type of music files, can anyone help me? What's the point in legally downloading a track when you can't listen to it in your mp3 player! Should have bought the disc instead...

Padster · #2 Post by **Padster** » Tue 17 Oct 2006, 8:04 am

I think you need to play them in Windows Media player. You should get prompted to acquire the licenses, once this is complete you can play them / burn them to cd.

I had a load of problems. I ended up burning to CD and then re-encoding into MP3.

raggatwin · #3 Post by **raggatwin** » Tue 17 Oct 2006, 9:32 am

I just download them and then convert them to mp3. Sound quality is not really an issue in a noisy tube at 7.30 in the morning.

E-Mail Vampire · #4 Post by **E-Mail Vampire** » Tue 17 Oct 2006, 10:07 am

raggatwin wrote:I just download them and then convert them to mp3. Sound quality is not really an issue in a noisy tube at 7.30 in the morning.

sorry to sound dumb but how do you do that.

Hillbilly · #5 Post by **Hillbilly** » Tue 17 Oct 2006, 10:36 am

E-Mail Vampire wrote:
raggatwin wrote:I just download them and then convert them to mp3. Sound quality is not really an issue in a noisy tube at 7.30 in the morning.
sorry to sound dumb but how do you do that.

Exactly, I have to ask the same thing. The mp3 softwares I have used so far are able to convert only from mp3 into wma, but not the other way around. Surely there must be some software that can convert a wma file into an mp3 as well? Could you give us a tip?

fluffmoln · #6 Post by **fluffmoln** » Tue 17 Oct 2006, 10:54 am

www.dbpoweramp.com

rabagast · #7 Post by **rabagast** » Tue 17 Oct 2006, 1:12 pm

I'd stick with Padster's method (get the licence via MediaPlayer)and keep them in WMA because of the sound quality. At low bitrates WMA is far less crap than MP3.

raggatwin · #8 Post by **raggatwin** » Tue 17 Oct 2006, 1:41 pm

Hillbilly wrote:
E-Mail Vampire wrote:
raggatwin wrote:I just download them and then convert them to mp3. Sound quality is not really an issue in a noisy tube at 7.30 in the morning.
sorry to sound dumb but how do you do that.
Exactly, I have to ask the same thing. The mp3 softwares I have used so far are able to convert only from mp3 into wma, but not the other way around. Surely there must be some software that can convert a wma file into an mp3 as well? Could you give us a tip?

It's the software that came bundled with my Creative Media player.

raggatwin · #9 Post by **raggatwin** » Tue 17 Oct 2006, 1:42 pm

actually just noticed link to db poweramp, yeah another good bit of software, used to use that.