Importing WMA

[RonSH]

I have a mobile phone given to me by my daughter. She would like the music from it and I have downloaded the music to my pc to make a cd. However the music is protected and will not play on my pc nor import into Audacity even though I have installed ffMPEG. Looking at some earlier posts it seems that 'protected' cannot be imported? Is this still the case/is there some way of converting WMA to MP3 so that I can create the cd.
Thanks Ron.

[steve]

If it will not even play on the computer then there is nothing that Audacity can do with it.
Try searching Google for "migrate DRM license" or similar search terms.

[kozikowski]

Another way is to adapt the headphone connection to a recording device. Most DRM will not follow an analog pathway. You're probably not going to be doing this with your Windows Laptop, because you can't use the Mic-In. You can use one of these..

http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/RCAMiniStereo.jpg

And plug into one of these USB Sound Cards.

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/ ... Lenovo.jpg

That's a UCA202 and will adapt the phone to your laptop. If you're on a Mac, you don't need the UCA202.

It's possible the phone uses a special headphone and microphone connection, in which case the job is much harder.

Koz