Playing Rhapsody music from Windows on Linux

[Felipe Figueiredo]

On Wednesday 05 July 2006 10:54, JimD wrote:
> On 07/04/2006 05:17 PM, Anthony Yarusso wrote:
> > A friend of mine that I am trying to convert to Ubuntu from Windows XP
> > has been using the Rhapsody music download service from Real Networks.
> > (Please no preaching to the choir - I've been working on getting her off
> > DRMed music already.)  Even if she stops now though, she already has $50
> > worth of music downloaded.  They are in the .RAX secure encrypted Real
> > audio format.  I think if I am going to be able to convince her, I am
> > going to have to find a way for her to play those files, because $50
> > would be a significant loss.  Has anyone done this?  Any suggestions on
> > how to make these playable in Linux appreciated.
>
> Does Rhapsody allow you to burn a real music CD like iTunes does?  If
> so, burn her music to a regular audio CD.  Then in Linux just rip the CD
> to ogg/mp3 format and she will have her music again, without the DRM junk.


This would probably result in quality loss.