Venting about Downloading Music!!!!!

[shawnc]

I've never subscribed to a music service but I figured for .88 I'd give Wal-mart a try. After 3 attempts to get music to my SD card for playback in my Ipaq I gave up :evil: !

Then I figured I'd try itunes because there is one record that I would REALLY like. Again, no such luck!

I'm sure the answer is really simple to those who know, but why is this so difficult????? All I want to do is download a cut and copy to my SD card. You would think that would be one of the most common actions performed. But when I go into WM9 on my desktop and try to "Copy" the song downloaded from itunes I get the same error message as the music from Wal-mart.

I'm sure this has something to do with copy-protection BUT I PAID FOR THE MUSIC! All I want to do is make ONE copy to my SD card. This should not be difficult!!

Fortunately my short-lived foray into the download arena only cost me a couple of hours of my time and about $3. That's it for me. Neither itunes nor wal-mart will ever hear from me again :evil: :evil: :evil: !

[shawnc]

I've never subscribed to a music service but I figured for .88 I'd give Wal-mart a try. After 3 attempts to get music to my SD card for playback in my Ipaq I gave up :evil: !

Then I figured I'd try itunes because there is one record that I would REALLY like. Again, no such luck!

I'm sure the answer is really simple to those who know, but why is this so difficult????? All I want to do is download a cut and copy to my SD card. You would think that would be one of the most common actions performed. But when I go into WM9 on my desktop and try to "Copy" the song downloaded from itunes I get the same error message as the music from Wal-mart.

I'm sure this has something to do with copy-protection BUT I PAID FOR THE MUSIC! All I want to do is make ONE copy to my SD card. This should not be difficult!!

Fortunately my short-lived foray into the download arena only cost me a couple of hours of my time and about $3. That's it for me. Neither itunes nor wal-mart will ever hear from me again :evil: :evil: :evil: !

[dh]

Well, if you paid for te music, you are allowed to have a copy uinder the "Fair Use" rules.
What I would do is just download a copy anyway you can and you're in business.

[Zack Mahdavi]

Shawn, iTunes music can only play on either iTunes or an iPod. The reason is because Apple hasn't licensed the Digital Rights Management it uses to other companies.

I personally haven't tried using WalMart, but you should be able to copy it over to your SD card. If you can't, try copying it over to memory. If the song plays from memory, then you'll need to purchase an MMC card to copy music.

[Jason Dunn]

Don't buy music from Walmart - it wont' work on your Pocket PC. I'll explain next week when I get back...

Originally Posted by zkmusa

If the song plays from memory, then you'll need to purchase an MMC card to copy music.

Why would an MMC card play the music where an SD card would not? That makes no sense to me... 8O

[Oreocat]

I'm not sure if this will help, but I was told here by a couple of very helpful people that if I downloaded music and made a disc, I could then recopy it back onto to my pc without the DRM. Once I had the songs without the DRM coding, I could then move them to my ppc, and it would work fine.

I sort of tried this and it worked. We downloaded some music from iTunes, made a disc for my husband's work, but before I could reload it, my husband just brought up some file (really sorry though, I don't know *where* he found it) with the songs, and I was able to use dBpower Amp Music Converter to convert them to ogg files (smaller and same quality) and send them to my ppc. It did work, but obviously not the exact instructions I was given :roll:

Hopefully this might help you...

Good luck

[Zack Mahdavi]

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

Don't buy music from Walmart - it wont' work on your Pocket PC. I'll explain next week when I get back...

Why would an MMC card play the music where an SD card would not? That makes no sense to me... 8O

Sorry... I read that on some posts a while back. Some people said some protected Napster WMAs won't play when copied to an SD card but will play when copied to an MMC card.

I've never tried it, but I was passing along information..

[shawnc]

Thanx to all for the info. This is really bizarre that something so popular and heavily advertised as music downloads has been rolled out without such basic functionality.

[Kati Compton]

Burn a CD and re-rip to your favorite PPC-listening format, then transfer THAT to the PPC.

[Jon Westfall]

Its a good thing CD-R's are getting more inexpensive all the time, with all the burning & ripping that will be going on in the future.

[Kati Compton]

I'm more concerned with the 10-burn limit that I think the Walmart songs have.