gHacks technology news » zune drm http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:26:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Share Unrestricted Music with your Zune http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/11/share-unrestricted-music-with-your-zune/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/11/share-unrestricted-music-with-your-zune/#comments Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:56:21 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/11/share-unrestricted-music-with-your-zune/ Did you know that the Zune, the mp3 player from Microsoft, has a filesharing feature that is probably one of the best ever implemented in mp3 players ? Did you also know that Microsoft restricted playback of song shared using that filesharing option to three playbacks in the new Zune players ? The old players had an even tougher restriction set in place, their restriction was three plays or three days.

Songs would expire when they reached either limit which made the wonderful filesharing function less attractive and more or less unusable. Users over at the Zune Scene website have found a way to bypass the 3 play rule limit of the Zune by changing the genre of the song to Podcast.

Yes, that is all, change it to Podcast, send it to another Zune and witness for yourself that music exchanged that way can be played indefinitely. It requires some work though because each and every song has to be declared a podcast. The user of the second Zune can naturally change the genre back without imposing the playback restrictions.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/11/share-unrestricted-music-with-your-zune/feed/ 0 FairUse4WM 1.3 works with Vista and Zune http://www.ghacks.net/2007/07/15/fairuse4wm-13-works-with-vista-and-zune/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/07/15/fairuse4wm-13-works-with-vista-and-zune/#comments Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:33:01 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/07/15/fairuse4wm-13-works-with-vista-and-zune/ A new version of FairUse4WM hit the Internet two days ago which is able to strip the DRM – that is Digital Rights Management – right of music files that use MS DRM IBX components up to version 11.0.6000.6324. So, if you own a Zune, use the Yahoo music service, Urge or several other services you might want to give FairUse4WM a try and get rid of the DRM in the music.

The original post at the Doom9 forum lists several download locations and a short instruction on how to work with the drm stripper.

To actualize fair use rights with the new IBX, first run ‘mirakagi’ which will enter the IBX keys into the FairUse4WM blackbox-keys.txt text file.Next, you should use the attached version of FairUse4WM, 1.3Fix-2. This includes an important fix for a video corruption bug, often seen in scenes affording high compression.

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