a year ago, when i was new to WMA encoding, but knowing it could compress more than mp3, i used windows media player 7.1 to encode some audio. eventually time passed, and i reinstalled windows and stuff like that.
recently when i tried to play those file i encoded, they didnt work saying that "the license for that songs were lost". at the time i encoded them, i didnt know that WMP is applying a license by default to all the encoded songs. i dont have that audio CD anymore, and i really wanna know is there any master who knows a way to decrypt these files? tks for your help.

I've done a little research on your problem. There might be a program at download.com that may help. Do a search for wma and see if any of those programs help. There are several demo programs there for download.

are you aware there is a crack for wma file format hanging around ..?

You just have to to a search !

Why bother .. just use Mp3 compression !

Did you try Soundforge or any other 3rd party audio SW? This may or may not work but is worth a shot. You have nothing to lose at this point! (besides your sanity)

My 2 cents,
BaBa
:D

well, McoreD, thats mean one thing... Never use a format from a corporation :)
Try to use some WMA converter that are floating around ;)

:)
although, it is "illegal" to talk about cracks in BetaONE, had to use the word 'crack' hey :)
well, I tried unf**kwma.exe but it supports only version 7 and earlier. As I have encoded them in 7.1 it cant decrypt :(
I combed the whole net as i could, but that was the only decrypter i could find. most links for others were dead (may be M$ is in control of them).
i moved from MP3 to WMA. and I know mp3PRO is out as well. but WMA is the best audio format for compression and quality - no need to argue, my friend :)
i told earlier, that i forgot to uncheck the "Use Digital Rights Management" (in WMP7.1) that day an year ago. Now the very first thing i do after installing Windows XP, is in MPXP, unchecking the "Protect Content" thing. :)
Thanks for your reply :D

all the 3rd party audio software cannot open encrypted wma files, if the license is not found in the local computer.
i will need to search for a crack which could decrypt the files. the hard thing is these wma files are encodec using WMP7.1 (WMA8 codec) and there was no cracks i could find which supports this versions yet :(

hate to say that WMA Converter doesnt accept the encrypted WMA files when the license for it is not found :(

Don't know if you have tried this but open wmp and then goto tools, look at the copy tab uncheck protect content, see if that helps, by unchecking that it should let another program open the wma's up

:) unchecking the protect content helps only stopping the future encoded audio tracks not be protected. it doesn't affect the wma whichi is allready protected :)
thanks anyway :)