Music Licenses

[BGBG]

I have encountered something called Licenses while beginning to work with music files. I know little about this but presume they ae somehow necessary to keep people from transferring and playing music files from one PC or device to another. I do not know how to work with this, nor how to obtain, backup, or utilize licenses. My Windows Media Player MyDocuments/MyMusic/Licenses folder is empty. I have never acquired or checked boxes that say "automatically acquire licenses" in player options. Yet I have had messages "this file cannot be played because license cannot be found" come up. Is it a good thing to acquire licenses and check box to do so, and if have none how does one go about geting them or having the file play without them. It is inconvenient to have a music file that will play on one PC or player but not another, and since no license exists what does one do to get it or work around it? Apparently you have to save and guard these these things like gold. Anyone shed some light on this and offer some basic suggestions? I am not distributing or playing music on huge scale. I simply would like to take a mp3 or wma file I made a few years ago on a ZIP disk and play it on a current player but cant because there is no license.

[kelly]

As far as I know, mp3's are not licensible (is that a word?).
MP3's should play on any machine that is capable of playing them. You can make as many copies as you want.

[Freehold Fred]

Apparently you have encountered a DRM (Digital Rights Management) Protected File that your player is blocking.

1) One workaround is to re-record your music (Goldwave, Total Recorder, Audacity) from its original location as it plays from a PC with an older version of WMP, WinAmp or other player.
2) Another is to search for a DRM-free player such as http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/downloads/convert_drm_info/

I have encountered something called Licenses while beginning to work with music files. I know little about this but presume they ae somehow necessary to keep people from transferring and playing music files from one PC or device to another. I do not know how to work with this, nor how to obtain, backup, or utilize licenses. My Windows Media Player MyDocuments/MyMusic/Licenses folder is empty. I have never acquired or checked boxes that say "automatically acquire licenses" in player options. Yet I have had messages "this file cannot be played because license cannot be found" come up. Is it a good thing to acquire licenses and check box to do so, and if have none how does one go about geting them or having the file play without them. It is inconvenient to have a music file that will play on one PC or player but not another, and since no license exists what does one do to get it or work around it? Apparently you have to save and guard these these things like gold. Anyone shed some light on this and offer some basic suggestions? I am not distributing or playing music on huge scale. I simply would like to take a mp3 or wma file I made a few years ago on a ZIP disk and play it on a current player but cant because there is no license.

[BGBG]

This being the case, I would just as soon record or convert to all music files to MP3 so if I wanted to play somewhere else all would be the same and without problem. Some recorders only record in WAV or WMA so these would have to be converted.
Is there any downside to all MP3 and remove the others after finish with them, say 320 kbs quality (if that is the right term)?
Is it a mistake to set WMP to aquire licenses automatically if dont wont to be hampered by DMR?

[Freehold Fred]

You plan is okay for the old stuff you somehow acquired before the DRM police, but there also comes a time when purchasing music through iTunes or similar soothes over all the competing legal and ethical copying issues at a reasonable price.

This being the case, I would just as soon record or convert to all music files to MP3 so if I wanted to play somewhere else all would be the same and without problem. Some recorders only record in WAV or WMA so these would have to be converted.
Is there any downside to all MP3 and remove the others after finish with them, say 320 kbs quality (if that is the right term)?
Is it a mistake to set WMP to aquire licenses automatically if dont wont to be hampered by DMR?

[Duplicate User]

Just convert them to MP3s.
Prob solved.

[fleamailman]

yes, mp3 is not as good a quality as wav but when you think of how much space a wav takes(it is the same thing as a normail cd tune of old) one soon sees the advantage of mp3 over it in that whereas with wav perhaps one can get 20 songs on one cd, with mp3 one can get 100 songs.

also I like the fact that mp3 is so universal, each time they come out with a new format it is normally to tie one into their new system too, pay for chains then, but with mp3 one can choose not only which player, but also one can listen to the music on different oss such as linux, or even on the newer cd players

[kelly]

As mentioned above, mp3's don't sound as good. So experiment with converting your music to mp3 using different settings until you find one that sounds good enough to you.

[BGBG]

Thanks for the education. I like smaller size with no enumbrerances and complications and to play on any player on one PC or others.
My ears are probavbly not cutting edge, nor my equipment, so my mp3 sound good enough to suit me. And I cant think of a reason to have one song in 2 or 3 different formats and take up more space. I m leaning toward the "convert to mp3" suggestion. Hadnt done music for awhile and had forgotten or not encountered this protction stuff. And for some reason the same mp3 or wav or wma file sounds different on different players on same PC. Go figure.

[Freehold Fred]

You are right about that. I still like WinAmp the best.

And for some reason the same mp3 or wav or wma file sounds different on different players on same PC. Go figure.

[BGBG]

I think I will look into WinAmp. Cant have too many I guess and I may like it.
Version 5.3 is the one I am seeing on Search.

[Duplicate User]

VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) is the best alternative media player around, in my opinion. Plays virtually everything. :cool:

[tech2in]

I think I will look into WinAmp. Cant have too many I guess and I may like it.
Version 5.3 is the one I am seeing on Search.

Dude get K-lite mega codec for ur WMP and 95% of your problems shud b solved
You can get Klite Mega Codec Pack here:

http://filehippo.com/download_klite_mega_codec/

[dbarrow]

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