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I know this can be a touchy subject because it is generally asked for illegal purposes but does anyone know of a way to LEGALLY remove copyright protection from WMA files. I have searched M$ and googled for it but no luck which makes me think this is a pointless question.

The reason I ask is that I have WMA protection on my CD collection on my PC but today I installed a Panasonic MP3/WMA player in the car and WMA will not play because of the copyright protection. I really dont want to spend weeks re-ripping over 200 CD's worth of music.

I'm not too convinced that you can remove the protection, but if you convert it to an MP3 then it'll get lost :)

Try DBPowerAmp to convert these, from here

[Edited by zhastaph - 12/3/2003 9:00:59 PM]

thanks zhastaph but I kinda guessed that one. I was hoping to keep the wma as it gives better quality for smaller file size, but I have the feeling I am going to have to go down this path...