Adding Music to Movie Maker

[Guest]

We have been trying to add music from Disney CD's we have purchased. All
attempts have been blocked by digital rights management notifications. On the
web site
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/making/default.mspx under
the heading "Adding music to your home movies with Windows Movie Maker 2" it
says "....Find out how to add that special Perry Como, Black Sabbath, or
Celine Dion tune to your movie". Nothing on that page (or anywhere else we
have looked including www.papajohn.org) have expained how to add music like
Celine Dion's that is Digital Right Management Protected. Can anyone help?

 

[Rod Dirk, Synergy Computer Consulting]

I don't know if this will actually work, it's just an idea, but you can give
it a try.

Get a copy of CDex and rip the CD track(s) you want to use to MP3 or WAV
format (probably WAV will work more universally with most video editors, and
gives better quality also), then use the MP3/WAV file instead of the
original CD.

The reason I think this might work is that I don't think CDex cares about
DRM, however if does then I am sure you can find other similar "ripping"
software that will work

 

[Guest]

A worst case scenario would be to play the CD through your computer and
capture the sound via a program like Total Recorder.

Alan