amaleale Posted November 17, 2005 Report Share Posted November 17, 2005 I've been using a Minidisc to record interviews. After recording I would transfer the files from the Minidisc onto my laptop, back them up on a CD, and delete them from the minidisc. My HD crashed, looks like a mechanical problem, but the computer lab formatted it to try to save it, and then when that didn't work installed a new HD in my laptop. I still have the old one. When I imported the audio files into SonicStage 3.2 from my backup CDs, on my new HD, SonicStage added them to it's library, but doesn't play them, saying there's invalid rights management information in the OpenMG content. It seems like there's no way to crack the DRM protection on the files. Does anyone know whether it would be possible to fix this somehow by restoring some files from the old HD? If so, which files would I need to restore? and what should I do then? It's a pretty expensive procedure (the HD is mechanically broken and formatted) but I would pay for it if I knew there was a chance to recover a year's worth of research.Or any other suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rei-gouki Posted November 18, 2005 Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 From what I've gathered from around the forums, there is no way around that.But, I don't know if any of the hacks/plugins that allow playing of omg/oma files on things such as winamp check or ignore DRM when they access and decode the file. But if it does ignore DRM, you could theoretically dub the files out via analog and reimport into SS and convert to wav this time. You can compress to some non-DRM format to save a bit of space from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dex Otaku Posted November 18, 2005 Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 This is part of why OMA is relatively useless as an archival format.The only safe way to back up your own recordings is to convert to WAV, and either back up those files or transcode them to a lossless packing format and archive those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishstyc Posted November 19, 2005 Report Share Posted November 19, 2005 Does anyone know whether it would be possible to fix this somehow by restoring some files from the old HD? If so, which files would I need to restore? and what should I do then? It's a pretty expensive procedure (the HD is mechanically broken and formatted) but I would pay for it if I knew there was a chance to recover a year's worth of research.The only way to restore these rights on another computer is by using the backup and recovery tool supplied with SS. If you don't get your system working again, I think this would be impossible.I don't think anyone understands the whole drm system well enough to start tampering with the files themselves... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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