Stripping Napster DRM

[Tarmacsurfer]

I've had a nose around, but as I don't use Napster it's a bit hard to offer advice, plus the way I did know seems to have been blocked. Been asked for a way of stripping the DRM from Napster downloads so they can transfer the music to an MP3 player they bought (currently getting "locked file" errors), does anyone have any suggestions on methods or software?

Preferably as simple as possible, point and click would be best.

[Xenodius]

I just found this post through a quote search on Google of the exact title. I would be willing to pay 10 bucks, DL 20-30 gigs of music, strip it, unsubscribe...

The long way would be to play and record the audio, then retag. If you had the right sound card you could do seven mono songs or 3 stereo songs at one time with Audacity.
PS: Tunebite 2.1.2 is 4x faster than Audacity.

The other thing that might work would be to play it on a player with 3rd party firmware like Rockbox. It can play raw audio files, no ID3vX tags. Dunno what it would do with napster files. Unconfirmed.

Theres got to be a way to play the audio, then rip a temp file out of your memory too. Thats far beyond my capabilities however-- I understand hacking, but I don't do it. I am very interested in doing this myself. Complicated.


I will be watching this thread readily


PS: A couple minutes of proper googling brought me here. Analyze it yourself, read the comments.

https://www.nodrm.com/2005/04/17/remove-napster-drm/



FINAL CONCLUSION:

Your best bet is to download a copy of Tunebite (Shareware, i just got a serial crack on ACCIDENT! LOL) and then buy a months worth of napster for 10 bucks, go crazy and DL as much as you can as fast as you can, get Tunebite going on all of your computers, and enjoy. By my calculations, running 24/7 for 28 days, Tunebite can convert 2,688 hours of music. 2 computers, twice the fun. If you DL at ~100kbps, you should only be downloading 1/8 of the time too!

That means I can get about 10,000 hours of music for ten bucks. Thats a good deal.

[TheShaggyDA]

I'm not sure how en masse, but when importing mp3s into Cubase it creates a temporary wav of the file. This can then be re-encoded to an mp3 with no tags. I have no locked mp3s so I don't know if Cubase cares or not, but If someone can point me at one, I'll give it a try and see if this works.
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[nick.h]

Why bother with napster, and pay money when you can just use p2p?
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[TheShaggyDA]

The odds are better with p2p. It involves no security guards, and no running.
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[Tarmacsurfer]

This is an old, old post that was never replied to. Problem has now been solved.

As stated, I don't use Napster myself. The person in question did though, and was most put out when her perfectly legal music collection couldn't be transferred to her MP3 player.
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