Okay, I just downloaded a song from Walmart. It's opened with Windows Media Player.. I've tried to open it with iTunes, but when I do, nothing happens.. Is there anyway I can transform the song to .mp3?

much thanks

Is it a .wma or, what kind of file is it?

yes, .wma


um never mind.. i found that you cant play them on ipods lol.. thankfully it was only one song

...That means it's protected in some way. Did you get the song legally?

rofl yes, paid like .97 cents for it

since i just figured out i can't play it through itunes, i'll probably just delete it, but i'm gonna talk to one of my tech friends when he gets one be4 i do that.

if it isn't DRM protected iTunes (latest version) will convert the file for you into mp3 and add it to your library.
Update your itunes, drag the file into itunes and it should prompt you to convert

However if it is protected you may be out of luck. however there are products out their which can strip DRM protection...

Hmm... How did you get it? That error message means there's some password-encryption or something.

yes, i just read up on it.. walmart has that on their music.. I bought it from walmarts online downloading music center...

buut, i'm gonna see if i can't find someone with a recorder, and just record the song for me, then put it on .mp3

If you burn it to a CD, then rip it, the copy protection will be gone, but you lose a CD in the process.

i don't think i have a cd to burn lol.. could i send it to you to burn then rip for me please?

Wouldn't that require you mailing him the cd and then he burning it and mailing it back?
?

And iTunes is a money volcano just waiting to erupt and steal your money.
If you rly want the song that bad, get Limewire. That stoff is ftw.
But for now, you can download Audioacy(SP?) look it up on download.com, that program USUALLY works well.

Actually, we can't *legally* do that. While trivial things, such as federal copyright laws, do not usually bother me, due to the rules of the forum, we cannot do this. What I would recommend you do is find a Copy protection removal software (You'll have to find your own), and remove it with that, but, that too is illegal.

wtf the government is stupid.. if you've bought the song, you should be able to do whatever you want with it.. um nevermind man. thanks for tryin'

You bought a copy of the file. Whatever label records for the band still owns rights to the songs, so that's why you can't do whatever you want with it.

ohh that stinks lol..

buy the song off of itunes.
or download it on limewire as said befpre.
limewire pwns

lol I USED to use limewire, ignorantly... but about a week into using it, i got about 35 songs, i found out it was illegal.. so I took it off my computer.

That's a good suggestion, and it's not a DRM removal tool so I doubt it's illegal to use in any way.

Download this and then do this. Now set the program to record "wave out", press the record button, and play the song you downloaded from walmart.com. After the song it over, stop recording, delete the pauses before and after the song (highlight and press the delete key), and then go to file>save as mp3.

You know, just about every music store out there uses its own proprietary form of DRM, whether it be Napster, Rhapsody, iTunes, or Wal-Mart. DRM limits your usage of the song, as in how many times you can burn it to CD, how many computers it can be one, etc. However a new generation of music stores, like the Amazon music store and the Zune Marketplace, are popping up with DRM-free tracks. You can put these songs on as many devices as you want, burn it as much as you want. And oh yeah, iTunes plus is iTunes' DRM-free store. Because MP3 does not support DRM, iTunes and iPods use AAC and other music stores and players use WMA. These days AAC and WMA have outperformed the revolutionary MP3, so a WMA would sound better than a MP3 using the same amount of space.

My second point is that there is basically two types of audio three I make that types of audio, uncompressed, lossless compression, and lossy compresssion. Uncompressed is what comes on CDs and what recording studios use. They take an incredible amount of space and normal consumers tend to ignore them. Then there's lossless compression, which has the almost the same quality as uncompressed but uses much less space. Again iTunes uses a different format than all the rest Windows based stores. Finally there's lossy compression, which is usually what you download. AAC, WMA, and MP3 are all lossy. They are the most commonly used because they sound okay to most ears and save space. These different lossy codecs all use their own unique ways to compress, dropping some extra highs, combining similar mids, etc. Although there are WMA-MP3 converters etc, it is not recommended to use them unless absolutely necessary because they further compress an already compressed WMA with MP3 compression techniques, giving you the worst of both worlds. Same thing applies to when you burn a WMA to CD and rip it back in MP3. Oh man, there's so much more in the world of DRM and audio compression, but that's the basics.