The Dave Matthews Band website is providing directions for dealing with the band’s latest Microsoft WMA DRM-laden non-Red Book-compliant music “CD” and encouraging them to appeal to Apple to collaborate with others on an easier way to move music to the iPod:
INFORMATION REGARDING DOWNLOADING STAND UP SONGS TO IPODS
Please follow the instructions below in order to move your content into iTunes and onto an iPod:
If you have a Mac computer you can copy the songs using your iTunes Player as you would normally do.
If you have a [Windows] PC place the CD into your computer and allow the CD to automatically start. If the CD does not automatically start, open your Windows Explorer, locate the drive letter for your CD drive and double-click on the LaunchCD.exe file located on your CD.
Once the application has been launched and the End User License Agreement has been accepted, you can click the Copy Songs button on the top menu.
Follow the instructions to copy the secure Windows Media Files (WMA) to your PC. Make a note of where you are copying the songs to, you will need to get to these secure Windows Media Files in the next steps.
Once the WMA files are on your PC you can open and listen to the songs with Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher. You may also play them in any compatible player that can play secure Windows Media files, such as MusicMatch, RealPlayer, and Winamp, but it will require that you obtain a license to do so. To obtain this license, from the Welcome Screen of the user interface, click on the link below the album art that says. If your music does not play in your preferred player, click here. Follow the instructions to download the alternate license.
Using Windows Media Player only, you can then burn the songs to a CD. Please note that in order to burn the files, you need to upgrade to or already have Windows Media Player 9 or greater.
Once the CD has been burned, place the copied CD back into your computer and open iTunes. iTunes can now rip the songs as you would a normal CD.
Please note an easier and more acceptable solution requires cooperation from Apple, who we have already reached out to in hopes of addressing this issue. To help speed this effort, we ask that you use the following link to contact Apple and ask them to provide a solution that would easily allow you to move content from protected CDs into iTunes or onto your iPod rather than having to go through the additional steps above. http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipod.html
Link here.
Sony BMG and the Dave Mattthews Band, in this case, changed the game and created the problem, not Apple.
Please note that the easiest and most acceptable solution requires the Dave Matthews Band to contact their record label, RCA Records, a unit of Sony BMG, and ask them to provide Red-Book compliant audio CDs, instead of Microsoft WMA DRM-laden coasters for their Microsoft Windows-using fans. Otherwise, why not just change the band’s initials from “DMB” to “DRM” and be done with it?
Contact Information:
Dave Matthews Band:
RCA Records:
Sony BMG: 212-833-8000
The Dave Matthews Band latest album is available via Apple’s iTunes Music Store in a form that’s ready for use in any Apple iPod: Dave Matthews Band “Stand Up” via iTunes Music Store.
Related article:
New copy-protected CDs are Apple iPod incompatible – August 04, 2005
Sony BMG and EMI try to force Apple to ‘open’ iPod with iPod-incompatible CDs – June 20, 2005here.
The new dave stuff sucks anyway…
why dont DMB/DRM just sign a deal directly with apple to get their library on iTMS? screw the CD.
INFORMATION REGARDING DOWNLOADING STAND UP SONGS TO IPODS
Please follow the instructions below in order to move your content into iTunes and onto an iPod:
If you have a Mac computer you can copy the songs using your iTunes Player as you would normally do.
If you have a [Windows] PC…TRHOW IT AWAY AND GET A MAC!. If you’re still to stupid to do that, follow the rest of the crap below…
…To help speed this effort, we ask that you use the following link to contact Apple and ask them to provide a solution that would easily allow you to move content from protected CDs into iTunes or onto your iPod rather than having to go through the additional steps above. http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore/
This froma band who built an audience from bootleg tapes and cds. Way to give back guys, not only do you have one of the best contracts in the business, you own your name and rights, your record label only distributes but you allow RCA to screw a number of your listeners.
What’s the Dave Matthews Band? Confused.
Can you say “publicity stunt”?
Take it with a slice of Lime…
Jay,
The Dave Matthews Band is the Band who dumped their toliet waste over a bridge and onto a tourist boat in Chicago.
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“If you have a [Windows] PC…TRHOW IT AWAY AND GET A MAC!. If you’re still to stupid to do that, follow the rest of the crap below…”
FWIW, this kind of crap will only further alientate people from Macs. Go ahead and tell people how stupid they are and see how well they listen. Worse yet, they’ll deliberately avoid Macs because they will see Mac users as a-holes.
True Mac fans wouldnt allow this to happen.
Show, Don’t Tell.
Honey instead of vinegar.
Why would you by the CD anyway. The iTunes price is $11.99 Canadian.
At Amazon.ca they want $18.99 CDN for the CD.
Buy it from iTunes, burn your own CD!
MDN MW=reason in There’s a reason Apple created the iTMS.
Some people would rather buy the CD to get the higher-quality files. 128 kbps AAC from the iTunes Music Store is okay, but not great.
As a huge DMB fan, I gotta say, I’m really disappointed in them over this. I’ll definitely be letting them know.
“If you have a Mac computer you can copy the songs using your iTunes Player as you would normally do.”
Buy a mac.
(It is cheaper, no viruses, AND you can import your CD’s)
I agree with Hammer! Be NICE!
As a fan of music, I’m shocked anyone admits to like DMB.
Dave Matthews is a useful idiot of Bill Gates. We live in a world of cults and cultishness. Its time to choose your cult.
You’ll never get to Heaven if you’re scared of getting high…
This is all becoming a very interesting power struggle between Apple, Sony, and Microsoft — especially considering some limited partnerships between each of them.
Wow, I wouldn’t have thought this would come from someone with exclusives on iTunes.
It was probably the record company that made them put in the thing about Apple, not them.
Personally – fsck Dave Matthews. Carter Beauford is the ONLY reason to even listen to his crap music.
Tell Dave to take his whiny crap music, his whiny crap political views, and go the back to South Africa.
BTW – Al, the Band did not dump the waste, it was the idiot bus driver. The Band had NOTHING to do with it.
Just sent a note to the DMB fanclub email telling them to get RCA to fix the problem and not Apple. I respect DMB as artists even though my interest in the band waned about 10 years ago.
bob – you’re nuts. DMB is one of the most talented bands around. their live shows are AMAZING. However, I have to agree, their new album is a bit of a disappointment.
I know the band encourages the taping of their shows and the trading of live CDs. I have to assume that if the band really knew what Sony BMG had planned with regards to the DRM on the new album, they wouldn’t have allowed it.
> MacDailyNews Take: Sony BMG and the Dave Mattthews Band, in this case, changed the game and created the problem, not Apple.
MS is more open than Apple is. It’s no secret that Apple is using its DRM as a lock on customers.
So in the interest of being fair, Apple is a big part of the problem.
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> MacDailyNews Take: Sony BMG and the Dave Mattthews Band, in this case, changed the game and created the problem, not Apple.
MS is more open than Apple is. It’s no secret that Apple is using its DRM as a lock on customers.
So in the interest of being fair, Apple is a big part of the problem.
” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”smile” style=”border:0;” /> But of course MDN is the zealot type of Apple user, and thus cannot admit anything negative of Apple.
> MacDailyNews Take: Sony BMG and the Dave Mattthews Band, in this case, changed the game and created the problem, not Apple.
MS is more open than Apple is. It’s no secret that Apple is using its DRM as a lock on customers.
So in the interest of being fair, Apple is a big part of the problem.
” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”smile” style=”border:0;” /> But of course MDN is the zealot type of Apple user, and thus cannot admit anything negative of Apple.
I can’t understand why Windows users put up with that lunacy. If I insert an audio CD into my computer, I expect it to behave like I want it (i.e. import into media management software, burn a DRM-free backup copy, etc.). It’s downright frustrating to insert something I bought and have it tell me what to do. I don’t think so.
I will not post my entire letter, but i did end it with this:
I would also suggest adding a simple sticker to the cover of your CD that states “NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE IPOD – However, this Album is availble from the iTunes music store” That way iPod users, like myself, will know how to get this album.