What would you do? I am Confused by MS/ WMP

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Guess I am just being thick headed about this, but please tell me what you might think of this c/p. The first part of the c/p is the screen I get when I click on the file to listen to the music. This file was originally on the HDD of one of my other PCs and I moved it to this new PC when I installed MY Win98SE. The music on the CD was placed there by my nephew when he wrote and sang the song. It was not a commercial CD but instead it was only a sample of the recording. Never saw anything like this before but I suspect it has occurred because I upgraded WMP to 6.4--my preference of the media players. I think the intent of MS is to help the industry guard against pirated musical CDs.
I can get around this by just deleting the file from my PC but there must be another way to avoid that cause it is good. And no, nephew does not live close by. Perhaps I could send the file back to the PC where it was and burn a CD of the song--could I??

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Was the original clip edited or in some way manipulated with WMP9? I'm wondering if it branded it with some sort of code identifying it with MS's proprietary DRM. If it was maybe redoing the clip with some other software progam would help.

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Gee, I don't know. I only know that the recording was done in a commercial studio. My nephew wrote and sang the song and it was related to the 9-11 tragedy. When I took it off my burned backup CD and placed it on the new PC and then tried to play it I was greeted with the MS garbage. Whether the CD was later "cut into" another CD for commercial sale, I don't know. And even if it were, I don't see how that decision would have affected this. FWIT, I did NOT have any trouble playing the CD NOR the hard drive copy of the CD on the other PC!!! ONLY on this new PC

BTW, I am using WMP 6.4 and I have NOT installed 9 and from what I read, I won't be doing that until the bugs/problems are resolved.

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What format is the file in? wav, mp3? You could try using another prog to listen to it. Depending on what's installed on your PC you could use realplayer, winamp, cdplayer.exe.

worth a try.

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Don't really know much about music files. Never cared to learn about the type files or extensions--I just listen to music, if I enjoy it. I know it is a windows media audio file so, I guess that makes it a WMA file, if there is such a thing. Wish I were of some help to you in helping me.

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Did you try playing the file with one of the other programs I listed?

Do a file search for cdplayer.exe or have a look in start/programs/accessories/entertainment for it.

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I have CDPlayer but I still am not successful in getting the music to play. It could be that I am doing "something" wrong--still.
I think I will just let it be and forget about it. Many thanks anyway and I am sorry that I have taken your time on this project and now I am threatening to throw in the towel.
Oh, I copied the folder back to the original PC it was on, put a floppy in and copying began but the folder was too large for the floppy---but copying was shown on the progress bar. Then I put a CD in the burner but I could not copy it!! Permission was denied.

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I think it had to have been encoded with some sort of anticopy software.

Also, that's how Windows tells you that the file is too big for a floopy.. it doesn't analyze it beforehand it just starts to copy the file until it runs out of room then stops with a message that the file won't fit.

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I can't argue the point that the original CD may have been encoded; I would not know.
I realized the message about the floppy being too small to copy the CD but I could not help but wonder why the burn was not allowed. But hey, there are "bunches" of things about these computers that I don't know and probably never will know.
Again, many thanks for your courtesies in trying to help me to understand the "whys" of the PC.