Windows Media Player on the zt3000

Did anyone have to accept new migrated licenses from MS before you could play anything on Windows Media Player? Should I have done this?

I brought some songs home from my work PC. They were on a jump drive. It would not let me play them until I signed on and received some 'migrated' licenses. Has this happened to anyone else when trying their media player for the first time in either HP or Compaq?

After accepting the licenses, now I can not copy the songs from the jump drive to a CD. I was going to try my burner out for the first time. The songs were loaded onto my work PC from CD's. I did not have to accept licenses at work, but then again all that is done behind the scenes for you there.

Can someone shed some light on this subject?



Thank you in advance.

 

I believe this is Microsoft's copy protection method used on their WMA files. When converting or buying WMA music, it will create a "license" so that you can listen to the music, and you will need these licenses before anyone else cal listen to them. The issue is, now you can't burn because it's protected by the license to say you can only listen, not burn.

What you may be able to do, is to convert the WMA file to WAV and then burn onto CD (assuming you want to make an audio CD).

Legally, the WMA files seem to be copyrighted (copy protected) and you shouldn't be burning copyrighted material. Had to throw that legal note in.

-Vb-

 

Thanks VB for answering all my questions.

This may sound newbie (and it is). How do I convert the WMA files to WAV? Do I just do a SAVE AS or do I use some software?

I have some of the original CD's that were used to create the files at work. However, some of the songs came from a friend's CDs. I just thought I would take a mix of all my favorites from my work PC, copy them to the Jump drive, transfer them to the notebook and burn them to CD. I did not realize I was going to have to 'copyright' them on the jump drive just to hear them. And now, I can not even burn them.

Any help would be appreciated. I do not want to have to gather all the CD's and copy the songs all over again to the notebook.

Thank you in advance.

 

Don't want to get the site in trouble, so I sent you a PM.

-Vb-

 

Sorry. I was not trying to get the site into any trouble by asking the question. I thought it was OK to burn songs you have saved to your hard drive onto a CD for use at home or in the car. I am a very upstanding citizen. Please forgive me, if I have caused any trouble to the site. This was definitely not my intentions.

 

No need to apologize, just good to be on the safe side. Especially with the huge court cases happening about pirating music. It's legal for a user to backup their own CD's and then burn, but it's not OK to burn the music were you don't own the originals. Just hope everything is working for you now.

-Vb-

 

Do you have the windows media player, tools, options, copy music, copy protect music, box checked? This appears to related to wma files. I don't know if this is your problem but it's worth a try.

Tom