Music Bluehyppo – the Malaysia iTune Store Wannabe
TMNET, the Malaysia main ISP, has launched an online music store for fellow Malaysians called “Music BlueHyppo“. It is a good idea as Apple iTune store is not available here. However it does not have an ideal website.
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First Impression
Screenshot of Music Bluehyppo website
Music Bluehyppo is using a blue theme. The website looks dim with blue background. A lot of auto rotate images… I don’t like them. :( There are different music genre listed, but I see mostly local music on the front page.
Music Bluehyppo is a website builded for Microsoft Windows. Internet Explorer is required to preview and purchase songs. Windows media player is required to play your purchased songs. Of course, the song format is WMA.
How to crack WMA DRM music?
How to convert WMA DRM music to MP3 and import to iPod?
I discovered an interesting answer at Music Bluehyppo’s FAQ.
Q： Can I play my music on an iPod?
A： Our music is in WMA with DRM protected format, the most popular and legal audio format that is being used by music download site. Unfortunately, iPod does not support this format. Alternatively, you can burn our music to CD first, and use Window Media Player to convert the music to MP3 format and copy to iPod.
First of all, as far as I know, Apple iTune Store is the current most popular online music store. It had sold over 1.5 billion songs (September 2006), more than 80% of worldwide online digital music sales! [wikipedia] So, claiming WMA is most popular format is wrong.
In the answer, it is stated that we can burn downloaded WMA songs to CD, convert to MP3 format, then copy to iPod or other MP3 players… If we can do it this way, isn’t DRM useless?!
Once the song converted to MP3 format (which does not have any copy protection), you can freely share the purchased songs with anyone and make unlimited copies. OMG!
Other Asia online music stores
Do you know that Creative also has a online music store called “SoundBuzz Music Store“? Also, the first online music store in China — A8 (read my review)?
