Originally posted here by xthisxisxmex
Is it possible to remove a licence on an mp3 file? i downloaded music from my rhapsody and i uploaded it to multiply.com. when i re-downloaded it the licence is still attached to the file and i want to burn it to a cd. is there any way to remove the licence on it? just curious...thanks for reading!
OK, you bought a piece of music from rhapsody. Good for you. But, it has a license. You don't have the premium service, so you can't burn the music to CD with the license stuck in the file. You uploaded it to multiply.com (a beta service for sharing with friends) for storage--uh-huh.

Now, you download it back from the multiply.com storage and want to burn to CD. But, the file contains a license, so you can't. Can you remove the license?

If you know what you are doing and can use a hex editor--this is in the realm of possibility but not probability. The hours it would take are probably not as productively spent as the cost of just upgrading your rhapsody service and paying for a new download. If you upgrade your service to premium at rhapsody, you can get the music with a license that allows you to burn to CD. I seriously doubt that their technical support folks are going to tell you any different.

Just my tuppence.

Note: as for the greenies for the OP, probably not really appropriate for the individual. But the thread has generated some interesting comment.