burning songs to CDR

[badgolferman]

We have begun to burn music to CDRs recently for use in home/car CD
players. I must burn to CDA audio format for the CD players to read the
discs.

We downloaded some music from Walmart and it came in the WMA format for
authentication purposes. I was only successful in burning the songs to
a CDR with Windows Media Player and its associated Roxio plugin. I
downloaded the Nero plugin, but it couldn't deal with license
authentication. Perhaps I couldn't do it right, I don't know. I do
have Nero Express 5.5 installed.

My question is twofold: Is there a different burning utility I can use
to transfer WMA songs to a CDR that doesn't give me a bunch of grief and
where are sites that I can download music without installing peer-peer
programs like Kazaa and its ilk?

 

[SleeperMan]

badgolferman typed:

We have begun to burn music to CDRs recently for use in home/car CD
players. I must burn to CDA audio format for the CD players to read
the discs.

We downloaded some music from Walmart and it came in the WMA format
for authentication purposes. I was only successful in burning the
songs to a CDR with Windows Media Player and its associated Roxio
plugin. I downloaded the Nero plugin, but it couldn't deal with
license authentication. Perhaps I couldn't do it right, I don't
know. I do have Nero Express 5.5 installed.

My question is twofold: Is there a different burning utility I can
use to transfer WMA songs to a CDR that doesn't give me a bunch of
grief and where are sites that I can download music without
installing peer-peer programs like Kazaa and its ilk?

One of the options is to convert your WMA's to MP3 However you can't do ti
directly. Just run WMA in player, and at the same time run some program ,
which can record from soundcard (like cool edit , or Nero wave editor). In
your mixer set record source to wave (most of the times). When song will be
recorded in that program, just encode it to mp3, (or any else). Voila!

 

[HvAs]

Have a look at a FREE program called CDBurnerXPPro http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
It will do the job you want!
regards, henry

 

[Ollie Oxenfree]

My question is twofold: Is there a different burning utility I can use
to transfer WMA songs to a CDR that doesn't give me a bunch of grief and
where are sites that I can download music without installing peer-peer
programs like Kazaa and its ilk?

Take a look at dbpoweramp to convert your wma songs to a different format.
As for sites with music, check out the newsgroups around
alt.binaries.sound.mp3.

 

[SleeperMan]

HvAs typed:

Have a look at a FREE program called CDBurnerXPPro
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/ It will do the job you want!
regards, henry

From my experiences no ripper, burner etc...will do this job if WMA is
protected. IT's not program's fault, but song's fault. That's why one of
ways (the simplest) is play & record option.