Help transferring music from Puretracks to Sonic Stage!

[carolyn2u]

I just got a Sony Netman for my birthday, but so far have not had any success whatsoever in getting any music on it! Very frustrating, and I'm really hoping someone here can help me with this problem.

I have the SonicStage 3.2 software. The only songs I've downloaded came from Puretracks, and are in WMA format and automatically went to Windows media player 10. When I import them to SonicStage and try to get them onto my player, I get a cannot convert because of a rights problem. Is there anyway at all to get around this? Can I download them to my player direct from Windows Media player, and bypass the SonicStage software? Having purchased these songs it seems ridiculous that I cannot get them onto my netman!

The interesting thing is, that it seems that Sony is not a recognized player within the Windows software community, and so far the only songs I've found to buy and download are in WMA format, and go straight to their player! Before I return my gift and get something else, does any here have any answers?!

Please help:)

[mercury_in_flames]

Tracks that are bought off the net in wma might be non-convertable, as they might have copy protection on them. You could always just record the songs from your headphone-out of your computer, if there are craploads. u mean your net md walkman

[atrain]

can you burn them to a cd or better cd image? i don't know much about pure tracks.

[Bananatree]

Cross converting them as Atrain said will probably work, however I believe that Puretracks can only burn a few times, so be cautious.

[Christopher]

Welcome, carolyn2u! What unit is this? Can you give a specific model number? I would also advise using the latest version of Sonicstage, v3.3.

Edited November 14, 2005 by kurisu

[A440]

WMA tries to lock the songs into your computer. Look at the PureTracks help file for instructions on burning to CD. You can only burn to CD a limited number of times, so use your judgment--though once you burn to CD, you can copy the files from the CD. And once you have the CD burned you can import from the CD via SonicStage.

Another workaround, considerably more of a pain, is TotalRecorder, which is $11.95 at www.totalrecorder.com.

It will record whatever is playing through your soundcard, so you could play the tracks in Windows Media Player and record them (in real time) with TotalRecorder as .mp3 or .wav, then transfer those files. You'll have to retitle them.

Meanwhile, contact PureTracks customer service and tell them you paid for the music and you expect to be able to use it. You might want to use a different music service in the future, and read carefully the digital-rights information. You need the ability to get the tracks OUT of whatever rights-crippled format they use.

All this digital-rights garbage is why people might be driven to filesharing networks like:

Soulseek http://www.SLSKnet.org ,

Kazaa Lite http://www.p2ptutorials.com/pages/main/Net...rack/KaZaALite/ (don't EVER use Kazaa, filled with spyware) ,

Emule http://www.p2ptutorials.com/pages/main/Networks/eDonkey2k

or Ares http://aresgalaxy.sourceforge.net/

But hey, I'm not recommending you use those. Heaven forbid.

Edited November 14, 2005 by A440

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