I have several hundred music files on my computer saved on an external hard drive. Most are copies from my own cd collection, some are downloads from when I used to use p2p before arrests were being made. For fear of virus over the internet or backdoor file snatchers or any other bad / wrongful thing that can happen to files while connected to the internet, I have never turned on the external drive while connected to the net - until just a few minutes ago. I absent mindedly turned it on to listen to my music while here on answers. I got this error message that says something to the effect of 'can't play sound file - cannot find license'. Does that mean I won't be able to play my music again or did that only affect the one song I tried to play?
2006-06-30 15:07:37 · 4 answers · asked by swm_seeks_sf 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
that's because you are use media player, and they have DRM (Digital Rights Management). Probably at least 1 of your songs had a license that has expired. I belive, but don't know for sure, that other media players don't use DRM. Anyway, DON'T let media player add stuff to your files. Check in the options. Although i never had any problem with it adding licenses. Probably you had purcahsed a file some time ago? and it expired?. or a p2p buddy did. Don't sweat it.
2006-06-30 15:14:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, maybe, it has to just assocate back to the license. Actually any .wma (windows media audio), does run this risk... however all you did, was when you turned off your hard drive, windows gave it a new drive letter, so, you might have to just change the drive letter back to what it was before, and eveything should just sink right back to before....
2006-06-30 22:11:53 · answer #2 · answered by warrior_hamster 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it sounds like the windows media player problem, you have to set it not to search for licenses for your songs
2006-06-30 22:10:29 · answer #3 · answered by butchell 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that the music was copyrighted and therefore can't be played. you'll still be able to play your music. don't worry. its nothing bad.
2006-06-30 22:10:02 · answer #4 · answered by earlsquareling 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋