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Thread ID: 107280	2010-02-11 04:28:00	MP3 player question	beetle (243)	PC World Chat

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857211	2010-02-11 04:28:00	My daughter has a MP3 player, sony . no idea what model sorry . she has heaps of music on it, and i want to listen to one song on her MP3 player thro my computer . . . . . . . but it wont let me, this was not the computer that puts songs on it, she uses her friends . . . . is this possible? and yes i would listen with ear phones, but its hard when you have hearing aids . . . . . . . if possbile how? thanks beetle :)	beetle (243)
857212	2010-02-11 05:03:00	she has heaps of music on it, and i want to listen to one song on her MP3 player thro my computer....... but it wont let me, this was not the computer that puts songs on it, she uses her friends.... Sounds like..... that particular song is DRM-protected, no?	Renmoo (66)
857213	2010-02-11 05:10:00	Sony was the big root-kit RIAA problem child a short while back - I wonder ----Hmmm?	SurferJoe46 (51)
857214	2010-02-11 05:12:00	i have no idea what that means but i get the gist ok, so when you put songs on a MP3 player do they all become locked like that? or do you choose the setting? thanxs James, it clarifys the idea that it wont ever work . . . :) beetle	beetle (243)
857215	2010-02-11 06:10:00	Sounds like it was maybe loaded using music match which the early Son'y used as the default software, much like the early Ipods could only be loaded using Itunes	gary67 (56)
857216	2010-02-11 06:48:00	i have no idea what that means but i get the gist ok, so when you put songs on a MP3 player do they all become locked like that? or do you choose the setting? beetle I have a Sansa Sandisc MP3 player and it doesn't have that problem . I can keep anything I have - send it to another machine and back again and it never squawks about rights, licenses or DRMs . I just used my Sansa as a repository for all my MP3s and loaded what I want into my new EeePC Asus netbook . No problems at all and it went smooth and fast . The only setting I know is buying anything Sony for MP3 content . I stay away from it by all means . Sony had tried a "one-unit' licensing of music files with their infamous DRM system and it caused all sorts of hate and discontent a few years ago .	SurferJoe46 (51)
857217	2010-02-11 07:56:00	My daughter has a MP3 player, sony . no idea what model sorry . she has heaps of music on it, and i want to listen to one song on her MP3 player thro my computer . . . . . . . but it wont let me, this was not the computer that puts songs on it, she uses her friends . . . . is this possible? and yes i would listen with ear phones, but its hard when you have hearing aids . . . . . . . if possbile how? thanks beetle :) I play songs of my walkman on computer all the time . How exactly are you trying to do it and what is preventing it? Two obvious ways - transfer the file onto the PC (drag and drop) via the walkman cable or play it through the audio input on the computer speakers (presuming it has one) . More info on what is stopping you doing it .	Twelvevolts (5457)
857218	2010-02-11 07:58:00	Sony was the big root-kit RIAA problem child a short while back - I wonder ----Hmmm? Not very likely really - more likely it if was a CD but it isn't. Could be in Atrac3 though and the computer doesn't have the codec to play it.	Twelvevolts (5457)
857219	2010-02-11 17:51:00	Could be in Atrac3 though and the computer doesn't have the codec to play it. The early walkman MP3 players needed Sony music match software which I believe used Atrac3	gary67 (56)
857220	2010-02-11 21:06:00	My daughter has a MP3 player, sony . no idea what model sorry . she has heaps of music on it, and i want to listen to one song on her MP3 player thro my computer . . . . . . . but it wont let me, this was not the computer that puts songs on it, she uses her friends . . . . Can you be more specific? Its a bit like saying I want to drive my car but it doesn't work, make it work for me .	utopian201 (6245)
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