Acquiring a license

[PC800]

I'm a newbie to players; occassionaly I played songs with Widows Media 9 media player which I had copied rom CDs to my hard drive, with no problems. I installed QCD and attempted to play one of the same songs (wma format), and got a pop-up window "Cannot play music until license is acquired"
Can someone tell me what license this refers to and how I "acquire" it? Thank you very much.

Richard

[Tokelil]

Will Im not sure about this, I believe thats because WMP has added some kind of protection on the files you ripped. The license hasn't anything to do with QCD I think. Im not sure what to do about it, so someone else has to help here...

[Heigar]

Never heard of this happening, like tokelil said WMP must of added a protection to the files.What I would do is rerip the cd's into a different format than wma(mp3,ogg,flac,ape,wav).You could use the built in encoder in qcd to rerip or there are other apps that will rip cd's also.

[t_journeyman]

I have had this happen when I have copied WMA files from my home pc and played them at work. The solution I found was to first load the files into WMP at work and use the license migration wizard that comes up when you try to play one in WMP.

HTH

[teedoff087]

If you still have the original CD's you can re-rip the songs with WMP. Or you can rip with another program :). If you have to use WMP though, go to tools>options>copy music and uncheck the "copy protect music" box under format selection. You should select Windows Media Audio because WMP can't rip unprotected mp3 :disappoin. I hate WMP.

[Toe]

WMA sucks, end of story.

[Lich]

...psssst! there're programs to deprotect wma's...

[F.A.K.K.2]

There is a service Portable Media Serial Number in Windows XP, if you're using it.

Retrieves the serial number of any portable music player connected to your computer

Perhaps disabling this could help. :ponder: