I bought an album from napster.
I want to burn the tracks onto a mp3/wma CD rather than an audio CD (which you cant do within napster as far as I know?)
How do I do it? I tried to use Nero to burn the tracks but my HU displays "PROTECT" when I insert the CD.

Thanks.

 

I use Napster and Nero too, and I haven't been able to figure out how to burn 'em to MP3 either. Pisses me off when I've paid for some of these songs and it still says "PROTECT" whenever I try to burn 'em. WTF? I ain't out to pirate the world or anything, but damn, I bought these tracks, why can't I put them to MP3 to listen to in my truck?

 

Crap, not looking good so far.

I was hoping there was something I was doing wrong :\
Besides wasting my money anyway. $9.95 a month for the service plus the money I spend on the CDs, which arent always cheaper than going to a store and I cant do what I want with em?
Might have to go back to the old ways, although I really like being able to listen to the entire songs without buying. Dont know if thats worth $9.95 a mo though.

 

Yeah, I know. But when you burn that CD, the file comes up as protected when you try to play it in the truck...

 

I use napster, and I think I remeber having a problem too. So I use windows media player to burn everything. Works like a champ

 

Can you burn mp3 CDs with windows media player? Meaning, can you fit more than 20 songs on a CD?

 

Burning regular audio CDs with Napster isn't a big deal, it's putting them to MP3 that's the hard part. I haven't been able to burn them to MP3 using Windows Media Player either. I haven't tried copying the music as data files to CD though, I'm gonna give that a shot.

 

yes, in the burn tab, in the right panel, select data cd in the drop down list and then burn it.

you should see something like: CD Drive (H:) - Audio CD
I think thats default. Just change it to data and you should be good to go.

 

Well, I went to Windoze Media Player, burn, then set it to make a data disc. I burned 10 songs out of my Napster library that I paid for, took it out to the truck and it says "BAD DISC." I shot an E-mail to Napster asking what's going on, so I guess I'll sit tight and wait for a reply from them.

 

Tried using WMP and mine still says "PROTECT"...if napster says anything useful be sure to let me know

 

Well, if I mouse over the files in WMP, it'll pop up a little window showing the details of the track and towards the bottom of that little window, it's says "Protected: Yes" but I can still burn that to a normal audio CD without any drama. Trying to do it as an MP3 is giving me fits though. I bought my MP3 player on the assumption that I could use it to listen to all this music I got downloaded (about 2-300 songs, if not more) without having to make a bunch of regular music CDs.

 

Same here, that was a major reason I upgraded to this head unit.

Although, I just got an MP3 player so I might go that route (can store way more songs on there than a mp3 CD).

I would feel much better if I could get the CDs to work though, less money and time I have to spend getting the MP3 player to work :\ Its about $40 to get the adapter for the AUX input, plus I have to figure out a way to get it all wired up. Bleh. Freakin copyright protection!!!

 

Copyright protection is one thing, that I don't mind so much. What really tweaks me is that I (or we) paid for these damn songs, and for whatever reason, they're saying we can't cut 'em into MP3s?? On a positive note, with Nero I'm at least able to take my hard copy audio CDs, rip 'em to my hard drive then turn them into MP3 CDs so I don't have to tote all my hard copy CDs around with me.

 

I guess I should have said "freakin digital rights management BS"

 

Oh and, anybody still reading this thread that is interested in a program that will lookup and rewrite all your IDV3 tags, check out http://www.musicbrainz.org/

Works great, and its free! If you want to display the names of the songs/artists/albums while they are playing but dont feel like editing all your mp3s, get this program