Randy:

What's the new Napster delivery format? I just did the same thing with iTunes, and they are delivered in a protected AAC audio format. One can burn them so many times to a cd, or something like that. Here's what I've done: Burn the song to a regular audio cd, then extract it from the cd as a wav or mp3 or whatever for import to Vegas - works like a charm. Isn't there ALWAYS a workaround?

Good luck, have fun, be creative...

Frenchy

But if you burn it and then rip it you will suffer some quality loss. I've tried it already. Give it a month or 2 and someone will crack the protection.

There should be absolutely zero quality loss when ripping if you use digital extraction. Assuming that you are allowed to create a standard AudioCD format when burning, then there should be zero quality loss in the burning process as well, unless they've arranged some sort of deliberate signal degradation somehow.

But if you're taking it from their compressed format, then converting that into a wav file to burn an audio CD, then taking that off of the audio CD and then compressing it again into MP3 or a diffrent format, there will be some quality loss. I don't know if they added any kind of other copy protection to make the signal degrade after you burn it. I have tried this on a few occasions and I could definately hear a diffrence in the sound quality from the original burned copy and the mp3.

Stiffler the format is a standard MP3 file that opens up in window media for my personal setting.

I have used Shareit.com for the last year but want to do the right thing. One thing great about Napster is that you get a very good quality mp3 unlike Kazaa which sometimes have audio pops.