ksandbergfl Posted November 16, 2004 Report Share Posted November 16, 2004 As I mentioned in another post, OpenMG comes with DRM keys for four different software "players" -- SonicStage, Microsoft's Windows Media Player, Liquid Audio, and IBM EMMS. The newest MusicMatch (9.0) apparently incorporates IBM's EMMS rights-management, and should be able to play OMA files (as long as Sony's OpenMG is installed, of course). Can anyone confirm this? MusicMatch fans would surely love to organize their OMA songs using MM, instead of SonicStage. Also -- MusicMatch has a list of supported "portable audio devices" to which it can "burn/rip" music to.... is HiMD on this list yet? Someone with MusicMatch needs to connect their HiMD while MM is running, and report what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dex Otaku Posted November 16, 2004 Report Share Posted November 16, 2004 Haven't heard either way - but then, I wouldn't touch MusicMatch with someone else's 10-foot pole, let alone one of my own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksandbergfl Posted November 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2004 Haven't heard either way - but then, I wouldn't touch MusicMatch with someone else's 10-foot pole, let alone one of my own. the way people trash Sonic Stage around here, I thought some might be interested to know that there are alternatives. You certainly don't need SonicStage to play/organize the OMA music (Windows Media Player does it just fine), and you might not even need SonicStage to "rip" the songs to OMA either. I don't have MusicMatch either, so I can't test it myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sxc Posted November 17, 2004 Report Share Posted November 17, 2004 Isn't musicmatch available free to try? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffS Posted November 17, 2004 Report Share Posted November 17, 2004 Yeah, there is a free version, that bugs you to upgrade all the time. annoys you with ads, and rips at a snails pace. But other than that, it's got an interface that make SonicStage seem like the greatest program ever written. :grin: -Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syrius Posted November 17, 2004 Report Share Posted November 17, 2004 I have to disagree. SS is cryptic and only sits there without explaining what does what. Sure, MM has more buttons, commands and stuff. But only a blindfolded person would not be able to use it. It's pretty self explanatory, and doesn't suffer from SS committment to random failure. Of course, my reg key was free with an Iomega Zip drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shermy Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 I just tried to rip some of my MusicMatch files to HiMD and SonicStage wouldn't even play the files. I received the following message: "There is invalid rights management in the OpenMG content". Leads me to believe it doesn't work unless there is some workaround I don't know about. If there is, PLEASE direct me to it. I've been searching the forums for a way to do it sans realtime recording to no avail. I've got a few hundred tracks that I'd love to hear through my new NH900. Thankfully, this isn't the main reason I purchased my HiMD. If it were, you'd see mine out on E-bay already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 What format are the songs in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shermy Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 What format are the songs in?They're all .WMA files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 Musicmatch must be using DRM on those files. Sonicstage should be able to facilitate .wma and convert such files to ATRAC without any issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shermy Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 I found what seems to be a work around. I just popped in the CDs I burned those MusicMatch files onto and used MD Simple Burner to transfer them to the NH900. It did try to look for CDDB info on the CD. I'm wondering if this might also be a road block if I allowed it to process. I also think because of this there was no album or track information recorded to the NH900. There is a workaround for this. In MD Simple Burner, you simply edit the Group name and each individual track name. A bit of a pain, but I can live with it. Is there a simpler way that I'm not aware of? If I allowed CDDB to process, would it not allow me to record it to HiMD? Anyone else run into the problem I'm describing in this post? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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