Music purchased from Rhapsody is under DRM protection, which stops customers from playing the downloaded music with other incompatible devices like Apple iPod and Microsoft Zune. If you don’t continue to pay, you won’t keep the music when the subscription expires. As we all know, iPod is one of the most popular and successful MP3 players. iPod owners can purchase various music songs from iTunes Store and listen to them with their iPods. However, if you prefer Rhapsody and find some songs in Rhapsody that are unavailable in iTunes store, yet you do want to enjoy these songs witn your new iPod, you are meeting the headache of Naspter being incompatible with iPod. So the following tutorial should be the solution.

The tools you will need:

TuneClone Audio Converter
Rhapsody Software
iPod
iTunes Library

1. Make settings in TuneClone Audio Converter

Download TuneClone (fully compatible with Windows XP and Windows Vista) from http://www.tuneclone.com/index.php and install it. After launching TuneClone, click the “Settings” button. In the pop-up dialog of “Options”, you can specify the “Output Folder”, “Output Filenames”, “Output Format” (here we choose MP3), etc. for the output files.

Tip: You can get the output protection removed MP3 music folder by clicking the “Folder” button after the whole process.

2. Create a new playlist in Rhapsody

In the center left panel of Rhapsody, navigate to “Playlist”. Then in the bottom left corner, click “New” to create a new playlist.

Click “File” and select “New Playlist” to create a new playlist in Rhapsody.

Drag and drop the music you are ready to burn to the new playlist from Rhapsody Library.

3. Make CD burning settings in Rhapsody

Click “Tools” and select “Preference…” from the drop-down list. Click “CD Burning” from the list in the left panel. In the “CD Burner Options”, choose TuneClone virtual CD drive as preferred CD burner.

4. Start to burn

Click the “Burn CD” button to start the burning and encoding process.

After the burning gets started, TuneClone will automatically convert the music file to MP3. You can open the manager screen to show all the converted music files.

The most important step is to choose the CD burner. Then the software can convert the music files automatically. It is exceedingly easy when you want to batch convert lots of files.

After you get the output MP3 files converted from the Rhapsody music playlist in your Rhapsody, you can now begin to transfer the MP3 files to your iPod with the sync of iTunes.

Music purchased from Napster is under DRM protection, which stops customers from playing the downloaded music with other incompatible devices like Apple iPod and Microsoft Zune. If you don’t continue to pay, you won’t keep the music when the subscription expires. As we all know, iPod is one of the most popular and successful MP3 players. iPod owners can purchase various music songs from iTunes Store and listen to them with their iPods. However, if you prefer Napster and find some songs in Napster that are unavailable in iTunes store, yet you do want to enjoy these songs witn your new iPod, you are meeting the headache of Naspter being incompatible with iPod. So the following tutorial should be the solution.

The tools you will need:

TuneClone Audio Converter
Napster Software
iPod
iTunes Library

1. Make settings in TuneClone Audio Converter

Download TuneClone (fully compatible with Windows XP and Windows Vista) from http://www.tuneclone.com/index.php and install it. After launching TuneClone, click the “Settings” button. In the pop-up dialog of “Options”, you can specify the “Output Folder”, “Output Filenames”, “Output Format” (here we choose MP3), etc. for the output files.

Tip: You can get the output protection removed MP3 music folder by clicking the “Folder” button after the whole process.

2. Create a new playlist in Napster

Under “My Playlist”, click the “New Playlist” button to create a new playlist. Drag and drop to the playlist the music you are going to burn from your Napster Library.

3. Make CD burning settings in Napster

Click “Tools”, and select “Preference…” from the drop-down list. In the left panel of “Options”, navigate to “CD Options”. In the right panel of “CD Options”, choose TuneClone virtual CD drive as the preferred CD burner.

Note: Please tick “Burn CD Text” to preserve the metadata of the music.

4. Start to burn

Click the “Burn Disk” button to start the burning and encoding process.

After the burning gets started, TuneClone will automatically convert the music file to MP3. You can open the manager screen to show all the converted music files.

The most important step is to choose the CD burner. Then the software can convert the music files automatically. It is exceedingly easy when you want to batch convert lots of files.

After you get the output MP3 files converted from the Napster music playlist in your Napster, you can now begin to transfer the MP3 files to your iPod with the sync of iTunes.

Wondershare Video to Flash Encoder is a very easy-to-use avi to flv converter. It can convert all popular videos into flash flv, swf, such as convert avi to flv, avi to swf, wmv to flv/swf, mpeg to flv/swf, etc.

Why should we convert avi to flv/swf ?

Recently FLV video format is the preferred and most popular video format for web video delivering. A number of notable Websites, such as YouTube, Google video and Reuters use FLV format.

More and more people use YouTube to upload video and share it to the world. However, the uploaded video files using YouTube may have commercials and there is also a 100MB file size limitation. Also, you cannot edit your video files and have to upload the full video file even if you just want to use a clip from a video file.

How can we convert avi to flv and make our own flash ?

This Video to Flash Encoder guide will show you how to convert avi to flv and make your own sharing flash.

What you need:

Download and install Wondershare Video to Flash Encoder. Free download now!

Step1   Click the “Load File…” button to select video files from your hard disk.

Step 2  Edit video
Some video files have black edges around its video. Now you can cut off the black edges at will..

Tips:

1.Trim video. Select the video clips you like through setting “Start time” and ”End time”Or setting  selected length.

2.Setting Effects. You can set the brightness, contrast, saturation, volume of your video file by drag the corresponding adjustment sliders on the bars.

Step 3 Add credits
Wondershare Video to Flash Encoder allows you to add head and tail description slideshow to make your own flash.

Tips:
If you choose the output file to be FLV or you tick the Merge option, you can not add credits.

Step 4 Select a flash skin template and add watermark
Wondershare Video to Flash Encoder provides more than 20 flash menu templates for us to choose. The watermark makes your flash different from others. Both image and text watermark are acceptable.

What more important, you can add promotion hyperlink to your watermark.

Step 5 Configure output and start to convert
This avi to flv converter provides four output formats: Flash File (*.swf), FLV File (*.flv), Application (*.exe) or Screen Saver (*.scr). In “Setting”, you can set Resolution, Frame rate, Video Encoder, etc. for your output flash videos.
After conversion, click “Browse” to view the converted flash video.

Tips:
1. Upload to YouTube, you’d better set resolution as “320*240”, or “640*480”.

With these five steps, you can see that Wondershare Video to Flash Encoder is not only an avi to flv/swf converter, but also can select flash skin, add flash credit, add watermark and promotion link to make your own flash video.

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The first smattering of user reactions to RealNetworks’ RealDVD software–which allows users to legally rip DVD movies to their PC hard drives–is less than enthusiastic, to say the least. The most telling comment: “Lack of mobile device support is the killer for me.” Indeed, Real’s product lets you move ripped movies between a total of five licensed PCs, but that assumes they’re on a USB hard drive or some sort of flash media–thus far, there’s no provision for network streaming, and no support for transferring the movies to portable devices.”

The iTunes Store: Apple’s biggest incentive not to add DVD ripping.

(from:cnet.com)
Of course, when people say “portable media players,” it’s pretty much a synonym for “iPod.” And while we could imagine Real eventually cutting deals to have devices that are compatible with its proprietary RealDVD format, it’s a safe bet that Apple won’t be among the partners. But the whole existence of RealDVD raises another question: if Real can release software that makes it quick, easy, and legal for users to rip DVDs to PC hard drive, why can’t Apple?

Real’s software is built on the legal precedent set by Kaleidescape’s 2007 victory over the DVD Copy Control Association. Provided that you are backing up DVDs that you own, doing so for your own personal use, and keeping the copy-protection intact, Real’s betting that it, too, can keep the lawyers at bay. Assuming the company is correct, though, that would seem to open the floodgates for other companies to release kosher DVD rippers.

Apple’s iTunes already lets you rip audio CDs –indeed, the original iTunes tagline was “Rip, Mix, Burn.” One would think adding DVD ripping to iTunes’ bag of tricks wouldn’t be that big of a challenge. Yes, like Real’s solution, an Apple-ripped DVD would have to be locked into a proprietary, DRM-encoded iTunes-only format. But for most people, that’ll be a feature, not a bug. You’d pop the disc into your PC, and iTunes would ask how you’d want it ripped: optimized for Apple TV streaming or optimized for iPod/iPhone (i.e. larger, high-res files or smaller downscaled ones). Once it was in iTunes, the files could be transferred within the entire Applesphere of products: the PC desktop (Windows and Mac iTunes libraries), the living room (Apple TV), and the portable realm (iPod and iPhone).

Now, the more digital-savvy among you are already saying, “I can do all of this already.” Indeed, there are plenty of freeware/shareware programs that can rip your DVDs into an iTunes-optimized format, at the resolution of your choosing, where you can then do whatever you’d like with the file–including watch it on your PC, stream it to an Apple TV, or transfer it to an iPod or iPhone. But that’s still a two-step process (at mininum) that requires a modicum of techie skills to get up and running. By contrast, building the process into iTunes would make it all but a one-click operation.

Sounds great, right? Unfortunately, I think you better keep those underground freeware rippers installed–I don’t think we’ll be seeing this feature added to iTunes anytime soon, for two reasons. First, it’s unclear if Real’s legal gambit will pay off.

After all, precedents were made to be overturned, and even if their position isn’t legally tenable, deep-pocketed movie studios could try to tie down Real in expensive litigation–enough to make other companies shy away from releasing similar DVD ripping software.

Secondly–and arguably more importantly–it’s not really in Apple’s financial interest to add DVD ripping to iTunes. The company wants to expand, not shrink, the demand for its online iTunes Store: Apple makes nothing if you rip a DVD, but it (and its studio partners) split anywhere from $3 to $15 per flick, depending if you rent or buy. The company isn’t likely to kill off that revenue stream anytime soon.

I’d love to be wrong on this one. It’d be great if one of the big announcements at Tuesday’s Apple event was the addition of DVD ripping to iTunes. But I think this one is going to remain strictly on the “in an ideal world” wish list.

What do you think: Will Apple ever add DVD ripping to iTunes? Or are you content with DIY solutions?

Most of the protected video and music downloaded online like Windows Media Player iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster, Bearshare , Spiral Frog are all DRM files. this article will show you how remove DRM from WMV,WMA, iTune M4P and other protected music video files

What is DRM? Why do we remove DRM from windows WMA, M4P and WMV?

DRM (Digital Rights Management) - The anti consumer copy protection that prevents you from using music or movies in a way that suits you.
For example, if a DRM WMA or DRM WMV you downloaded from WMP(windows media player) that has windows DRM, you can only play it back on a compatible device, so if every piece of music had windows DRM on it you would need to buy the same track on CD to listen in your CD player or car, as an iTunes download to play on your iPod, as a ms store download to play on your Zune etc, but since you paid for it once you shouldn’t be forced to pay for it again and again and again, remove windows DRM and you can play it on your phone, iPod, Zune, PSP, CD player, pc, and anything else that you can listen to music on.

I got a few methods listed below:
1. Burn and rip
Actually, there is a common free method to remove DRM WMA, M4P with 2 steps:
Step 1 Burn the DRM WMA, M4P to a CD.
Step 2 Rip the DRM WMA, M4P from CD to your computer as MP3 format , then the DRM should be removed from the WMA files.
But it’s not very convenient that may wear out your CR-ROM, and It also needs a blank CD, a CD burner and a CD ripper to help you.
2. Re-record
One of the most common and simple technology is recording the DRM WMA and DRM WMV then use an ordinary converter to convert the recorded and unprotected files. Because this technology is easy to realized and easy to support more DRM formats besides DRM WMA and DRM WMV it is welcomed by most of the DRM converters like the SoundTaxi,Tunebite, etc.
But there are some disadvantages for those programs.
1. The conversion speed won’t get much improvement due to the long recording process.
2. Much audio and video quality could be lost during the recording process.
3. Hook
Hook is another new and more complicated technology which can be used to remove Windows DRM. Comparing with Re-recording software, these sorts of programs have much higher conversion speed, but it’s hard to make it support some DRM formats with new and lofty encryption techniques.
And as far as I know, Daniusoft was one of its supporters. After giving a test for some free trials I found it’s very easy to remove DRM from WMV WMA files with Daniusoft Digital Music Converter, and it also can extract audio from DRM WMV and othe video files and supports other audio formats conversion like M4P, AAC, AC3, WAV, M4A, M4b, MP3, etc.

You can free download the Digital Music converter to have a try:

Simple steps for conversion:
1. Add DRM WMV , DRM WMA, iTunes M4P and other protected files.
2. Choose the output format you need
3. Pressthe “Start” button.