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Smirnof100's Comprehensive No-Nonsense Guide to Undrming your music for Windows Media Player Based drm without screwing with any of your current setup. Complete with links to software.

Im going to compress what took me 3 days into about an hour of your time.

Step 1: Go get (and install) a copy of Virtual Box.

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Its Like vmware or virtual pc but its free and works great. I chose amd64 on windows as a host os. It didnt care that im using an intel processor, but if your using a 32 bit processor you will want that one instead. Get whatever your host os is.

Step 2: Use N-lite on your copy of xp to remove wmp from the install. You can also get rid of a lot of unnecessary junk and make the xplite machine boot and run smooth and fast.

http://www.nliteos.com/download.html

Alternatively you can go download a copy of tinyxp (legal as long as you own a copy of xp... people give me old pcs so i have a stack of cdkeys in a drawer somewhere). If you go the tiny xp route make sure the install you choose doesnt have wmp installed on it. Im not linking any tinyxp dls for obvious reasons.

Step 3: Set up virtual box with the basics. Nothing special here. Make sure you have a network adapter set up and set it to nat. I gave mine a 10 gig hd and 512 megs of ram. Also make sure you have a shared folder with full access. Under cd-rom, select image and choose the image file for your xp install or tiny xp image file (ie xplite.iso or whatever you named yours). Start the emulation and install xp onto the box.

if your guest os network adapter throws an error (check the device manager) change the image file in the cd drive to the vboxguestaddons.iso file, and in device manager hit update driver and goto cdrom drive(most likely D)\32Bit\Windows\3rdParty\AMD_PCnet and use that driver.
Also autoplay (install the addons) as it allows things like seamless transition from host to guest os with the mouse.

To get to your shared folder (on virtual machine) goto network places, entire network, virtualbox shared folders, and then i like to right click on the folders and hit map network drive... it puts it in the my computer section for ease of access. Dump all your necessary download files into this folder (on host machine) and drag them to desktop on guest machine. You can also use your browser on guest os to download directly.

We will refer to your desktop pc as the host os and the virtual one running inside virtual box as the guest os.
Restart guest os.

Step 4: Install wmp10 (on guest os). Also install ie7 if you went tiny xp route you need it to upgrade your components.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...0/default.aspx

For ie7
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/dow.../getitnow.mspx

If wmp10 throws an error for mscat32.dll during install then download
http://www.dlldump.com/download-dll-.../download.html
and dump it in the windows/system32 folder on the guest os, and reinstall wmp10.

Step 5: Individualize ON GUEST OPERATING SYSTEM using IE. MUST USE INTERNET EXPLORER ON THIS STEP.
http://drmlicense.one.microsoft.com/...en/indivit.asp
it should share your internet connection. If it is greyed out goto
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
and delete the drm folder. If you cant find it there then goto tools, folder options, view, and uncheck hide protected operating system files and check the radio button for show hidden files and folders. The beauty of a virtual machine is if you screw something up you can delete it and start over.

Step 6: Install (insert name of wma provider here) i use napster (with the to go account) so goto the homepage and download the newest client. if you use the guest os you dont have to screw with the shared folder at this point. Also napster only allows 3 pcs per account so if you are full you may need to dump one because the guest os will count as a pc. Also make sure your component upgrades and wmp10 installed good first to avoid unnecessary pc removals (napster lets you remove 1 every 30 days)

http://www.nameofyourclienthere.com

Step 7: Download 1 song on your client (on guest os) to verify everything is working. if your client wants to reset the drm or whatever this is a good opportunity to do it. fairuse4wma found 2 keys before i downloaded a song and 3 keys after i downloaded a song so thats why i recommend you dl a song.

Step 8: Download fairuse4wma 1.3 fix 2. I got mine from:
http://undrm.info/remove-DRM-protect...dia-Player.htm

if you dont find in there theres always google.

Step 9: extract it (to guest os) and run it. you shouldnt need mirikagi but it is there.

You can also (for ease of use) setup fairuse commander to extract your download folder (on guest os) to the shared folder on the host os by using it as an output folder.

Step 10: Test. Download a song, run fairuse, and then copy file to host os and put it in your favorite media player.

If you use fair use commander and you get an error message (Application failed to initialize properly) with an error code of 135, install the .net framework.

http://www.microsoft.com/NET/

I installed the newest one, but i dont think it matters.

Notes:
-You will need to use the guest os to download, so if you can import your library over via an online playlist all the better.
-Restart guest os as necessary
-You can run ie inside the guest os and goto every site and dl directly to the guest os.
-Another handy feature of the guest os addon pack is a seamless clipboard (copy text or link in host os and past into guest os and vice versa).
-If you dont have an active subscription this wont help you (and its not designed to either). This will help you get music youve legally purchased onto your portable device (in my case my cars head unit).
-resetting the drm on the guest os does not affect the host os and vice versa.
-Once this is all setup you only have to fire up virtualbox, download and decrypt.
-I made this guide cause I got pissed looking for one and all i found were useless tablescraps of bad information.
-please dont copy this, please link to it. thanks.

Any suggestions comments or questions please hit me up at smirnof100@msn.com