Definition of WMA extension

WMA is an audio file format developed by Microsoft (www.microsoft.com), the maker of Windows Media Player. It may not be as popular as MP3, but it is still supported by a vast number of players and jukeboxes, including Winamp, Sonique, MusicMatch and J. River's Media Jukebox.

How to play DRM WMA music in ordinary music player?

Because WMA supports Digital Rights Management (DRM).

Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems restrict the use of digital files in order to protect the interests of copyright holders. DRM technologies can control file access (number of views, length of views), altering, sharing, copying, printing, and saving. These technologies may be contained within the operating system, program software, or in the actual hardware of a device.

So you need to convert these music files to ordinary music format such as MP3, WAV or WMA files. Then you could play on any of your computers or devices.

Share DRM Music will do the job for you. You could download it and free try, the trial version of it only have the limitiation that converting 3 minutes of each music files. If you bought the full version, the limitation will unlocked.

Share DRM Music use a virtual CD burner to automate the whole procedure of burning / ripping / encoding all in one. What you need to do is just select the virtual CD burner as the default cd burner in your Windows Media Player, then burn the music file you want to convert to DISC. Share DRM Music will do the rest job for you automatically.