HELP! Really stupid question

[Miss_S]

Nothing happens when I try to open it.... and I don't know if it's avi,wmv or rm...I can't open it in media player or real player...

[Skypigeon]

are you sure you have downloaded the actual file and just not the bittorrent file..that has to go into your bittorrnet client...how big is the file

[April madness]

hmm. what is file's extension? I mean the part that is behind the dot after the file name. Usually would be blablabla.avi, or .wmv, or .rm, .mov.

[Miss_S]

are you sure you have downloaded the actual file and just not the bittorrent file..that has to go into your bittorrnet client...how big is the file

Think I've only downloaded the bittorrent file,then. How do i download the actual file,then?
It's about 337MB

[April madness]

Go to your bittorrent client, click file > Open and then find in the list this new file. click to open it. It will show up in the downloads window. If the download doesn't start automatically, click on that download title in the client and then Start download.

[Skypigeon]

so everything fixed now miss S...

[Skypigeon]

Go to your bittorrent client, click file > Open and then find in the list this new file. click to open it. It will show up in the downloads window. If the download doesn't start automatically, click on that download title in the client and then Start download.

or just drop it on the Utorrent icon...

[Miss_S]

Well,thanks to you ladies it's all well and good now. Thanx a million!

[Skypigeon]

you\re welcome miss S!

[April madness]

Well,thanks to you ladies it's all well and good now. Thanx a million!

Good to hear that Miss!

[Miss_S]

Ok,I'll revive this thread now,because I have another problem which is slightly related,and I thought I'd keep all my stupid questions to one thread

My stupid question this time is:
What do I do if I've been stupid enough to buy copy protected wma (music) files and want to be able to burn them to a CD or copy them to my iPod?
I can play the files in Windows Media Player or Real Player,no probs,but is there any (preferably legal) way around this copy protection, or have I just wasted my money?
Help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanx

[April madness]

Can you convert them to mp3 and copy then? Not sure, but since you bought them and do not want to distribute them around, it should be ok to do that. Unless the seller of the wma files also has somehow disabled that possibility.

[Miss_S]

Yes,I thought that would be possible,but I'm not sure how to convert the files.
Do I need certain software to convert wma files to mp3 files?
From what I understand, the online store where I bought the files is not responsible for any copy protection, but the record companies that have released the music are.

[April madness]

Well, I think you have to have some software to convert that. I think Winamp has possibility to convert to mp3, you just have to download a plugin for that - I have used winamp for that, but that was quite a while ago. And I don't know if the protected files can be converted..

[vuce]

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