Media Player

[Guest]

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I have two questions. The first is there anyone who
knows how to download licensed music to the Pocket PC and
have media player recognize the license and song store on
external memory ?

Also, I have tried to copy licensed music using media
player portable device copy to compress the files but it
appears not to work even though I set the options to do so.

 

[marc]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.pocketpc (More info?)

Jeff Bisby wrote:

> I have two questions. The first is there anyone who
> knows how to download licensed music to the Pocket PC and
> have media player recognize the license and song store on
> external memory ?


Never done this, but I've seen instruction saying you should open Media
Player on your PC, conect your PocketPC, then use the "copy to device"
button. Note some files are protected in such a way that they cannot be
copied or played on any other device. Search google groups for software
that will convet WMA into something less restricive such as WAV or MP3.
IIRC, the software was called "wire tap"
Marc


>
> Also, I have tried to copy licensed music using media
> player portable device copy to compress the files but it
> appears not to work even though I set the options to do so.

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.pocketpc (More info?)

>-----Original Message-----
>Jeff Bisby wrote:
>
>> I have two questions. The first is there anyone who
>> knows how to download licensed music to the Pocket PC
and
>> have media player recognize the license and song store
on
>> external memory ?
>
>
>Never done this, but I've seen instruction saying you
should open Media
>Player on your PC, conect your PocketPC, then use
the "copy to device"
>button. Note some files are protected in such a way that
they cannot be
>copied or played on any other device. Search google
groups for software
>that will convet WMA into something less restricive such
as WAV or MP3.
>IIRC, the software was called "wire tap"
>Marc
>
>
>>
>> Also, I have tried to copy licensed music using media
>> player portable device copy to compress the files but
it
>> appears not to work even though I set the options to do
so.
>.
>
Thanks. I am able to copy the music fine and play it as
long as it resides on the main memory. I want to find a
way to play it from my CF card.

 

[marc]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.pocketpc (More info?)

Jeff Bisby wrote:
> Thanks. I am able to copy the music fine and play it as
> long as it resides on the main memory. I want to find a
> way to play it from my CF card.

In my computer, the CF card appears in Media Player when I plug in my
PDA - have you tried that? I'm guesing that copying from main memory to
the CF card will make the licience invalid.

Marc

 

[Guest]

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>-----Original Message-----
>Jeff Bisby wrote:
>> Thanks. I am able to copy the music fine and play it
as
>> long as it resides on the main memory. I want to find
a
>> way to play it from my CF card.
>
>In my computer, the CF card appears in Media Player when
I plug in my
>PDA - have you tried that? I'm guesing that copying from
main memory to
>the CF card will make the licience invalid.
>
I found a way of doing it by viewing other chat sites.
First, you burn on a CD and then copy the song back to
your desktop. That will lose the license. Then you can
copy the music to your CF card and media player can play
it.
>Marc
>.
>

 

[marc]

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anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com wrote:
> I found a way of doing it by viewing other chat sites.
> First, you burn on a CD and then copy the song back to
> your desktop. That will lose the license. Then you can
> copy the music to your CF card and media player can play
> it.

That works but you loose some qualty because you're effectivly endcoding
a 128bit (or whatever bit rate) WMA twice. The only way to get round
loosing any quality would to encode it off the CD in WAV format, but
that means about 50mb per song! Still on a PocketPC such quality loss
won't be noticeable. I regularly endcode all my music at 96kbits, and
can't notice the difference on headphones from the songs on my iPod that
were 160kbits.

Marc

 

[Guest]

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Hi Jeff,
Just wanted to let you know that once you have your music files loaded in
WMP, you can copy them to your CF card, but first your pocket pc must be
synced with your PC. Go to "Copy to Device or CD" and then at the extreme
right there is a drop down list box where you can select your device(pocket
Pc) and then when clicked should bring up your CF card if it is correctly in
place in your Pocket PC. Then copy the music to the device and place the
files in the My Documents folder on your card.
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>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Jeff Bisby wrote:
> >> Thanks. I am able to copy the music fine and play it
> as
> >> long as it resides on the main memory. I want to find
> a
> >> way to play it from my CF card.
> >
> >In my computer, the CF card appears in Media Player when
> I plug in my
> >PDA - have you tried that? I'm guesing that copying from
> main memory to
> >the CF card will make the licience invalid.
> >
> I found a way of doing it by viewing other chat sites.
> First, you burn on a CD and then copy the song back to
> your desktop. That will lose the license. Then you can
> copy the music to your CF card and media player can play
> it.
> >Marc
> >.
> >