DRM music and Google musicmanager

BowlOfRed

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I upload all the music on my windows box to google play. (Mostly .flac, but some mp3).

Well, I just moved over some old stuff that was purchased from itunes. Some of it predates DRM removal and is in .m4p format. Obviously that stuff won't upload, but it should scan and upload the .m4a stuff.

Except... that... *some* of the .m4p files get uploaded. This little gift has made me greedy. How do I get the other ones uploaded?

Anyone have any idea how this would happen? MusicManager has a great big log file that shows that the first time it scanned, it found it as an usupported file, but the second time it read it okay.

Is there something on my machine that could have been "unlocking" the files? Is there some reason that .m4p file wouldn't have DRM?

Thanks!
 
I don't have many iTunes purchases (~30) but I did get something similar when I transfered to a new pc and iPod a couple years ago. Don't know why.

As to a solution... I think any purchase can be redownloaded from iTunes in a non DRM file. If not, you can always just burn a cd and re-rip them.
 
Jim_MDP said:
I don't have many iTunes purchases (~30) but I did get something similar when I transfered to a new pc and iPod a couple years ago. Don't know why.

As to a solution... I think any purchase can be redownloaded from iTunes in a non DRM file. If not, you can always just burn a cd and re-rip them.
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Yep, aware of the rip/burn method. I don't think you can just "redownload" (at least I don't know how to do so). I found some pages that mentioned you can pay to remove the DRM at this point at $0.30 per track, but I haven't tried this and don't even know how to do that.

It's really more to me about the fact that I didn't think that what has happened before should happen at all.

I use MediaMonkey on one of my machines, and it can play all of the .m4p files. But I've chalked that up to the possibility that since I'm logged in to itunes on that machine that it can use quicktime to play. MediaManager obviously needs something else because it can only upload about half of the files.
 
It's been a while but, IIRC... the higher price tracks are higher bit rate. None of the tracks are DRM anymore. You should be able to redownload anything you have bought.
 
Jim_MDP said:
You should be able to redownload anything you have bought.
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I believe that requires a subscription to iTunes Match. I haven't signed up for that yet. I don't know a way to do so outside of that.

ETA: Seems like the "upgrade for $0.30 per track" was an older program, and is now replaced by iTunes Match. Unfortunately, at $25, this is not a good deal for my small number of tracks.

But, as I said before, I know how to convert these via a burn/rip process. I'm far more interested in knowing how they were able to be uploaded/played outside of itunes without any such intervention. I simply didn't think it was possible.
 
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Are you saying that some uploaded from the very same album and some didn't?

That would be very odd.

But if they aren't from the same album, then who knows. I would probably then ask what the dates of purchase were on some that uploaded and on some that didn't.
 
OnlyTellsTruths said:
Are you saying that some uploaded from the very same album and some didn't?

That would be very odd.

But if they aren't from the same album, then who knows. I would probably then ask what the dates of purchase were on some that uploaded and on some that didn't.
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Yes, exactly. Some (random?) files, not others. On one album, tracks 2, 5, 7, 8, 10, and 11 uploaded.

What I found even odder is that the first time that MusicManager examined the files, it complained that they were DRM format and skipped them. Then on a later pass some of the songs were found to be compatible and they were uploaded. I can't understand what happened that made them usable at a later date.
 
BowlOfRed said:
What I found even odder is that the first time that MusicManager examined the files, it complained that they were DRM format and skipped them. Then on a later pass some of the songs were found to be compatible and they were uploaded. I can't understand what happened that made them usable at a later date.
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It's an often repeated myth that computers can only do what they're told. In reality, computers just really like *********** with us.

That said, how much later? It's possible there had been a software update, either at your end or on Google's side, that made the difference.
 
Couple of days...

2013-02-19 19:04:04,265 -0800 INFO TId 0x00000ee0 Calling ParseM4x <\\Readyshare\usb_storage\Audio\FlacDB\The Charlie Daniels Band\Essential Super Hits of The Charlie Dani\02 The Devil Went Down to Georgia.m4p> [.\ServerDatabase\FileScanner.cpp:79 FileScanner::addFileTypeInformation()]
2013-02-19 19:04:04,562 -0800 WARN TId 0x00000ee0 File \\Readyshare\usb_storage\Audio\FlacDB\The Charlie Daniels Band\Essential Super Hits of The Charlie Dani\02 The Devil Went Down to Georgia.m4p is in unsupported format (Apple DRM file) [.\ServerDatabase\MediaFileParserMusic.cpp:735 MediaFileParser::ParseM4x()]


2013-02-21 18:19:30,015 -0800 INFO TId 0x00000d48 ParseM4x returned true for <\\Readyshare\usb_storage\Audio\FlacDB\The Charlie Daniels Band\Essential Super Hits of The Charlie Dani\02 The Devil Went Down to Georgia.m4p> [.\ServerDatabase\FileScanner.cpp:82 FileScanner::addFileTypeInformation()]
2013-02-21 18:40:46,984 -0800 INFO TId 0x00000d78 Starting upload for \\Readyshare\usb_storage\Audio\FlacDB\The Charlie Daniels Band\Essential Super Hits of The Charlie Dani\02 The Devil Went Down to Georgia.m4p [.\Core\ServerProcessorMusicUpload.cpp:512 ServerProcessorMusicUpload::HandleUploadResult()]

The first one was probably the initial scan after the files were placed on this machine.
 
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