WMP Mobile 10, DRM & SD Cards

[Darren Behan]

Anyone with WMP Mobile 10 know the issue of DRM music not playing on an SD card has been fixed?

Thanks,

db

[Don Sorcinelli]

Darren,

Personally, I have never come across the issue, and I use DRM music with my Dell Axim X50v and WMP 10 Mobile and an SD card. A couple of notes, however -

1) I am using the Napster-To-Go service. I can't speak for other content provider scenarios;
2) I always sync the content from within WMP on the desktop, and while the SD is inserted in the device (rather than through a reader);
3) I always play it safe and only delete content on the device while cradled and through WMP 10 on the desktop (to ensure no licensing "hose-ups").

I can also say that I have not had any issues with DRM content from MLB.com either. It's great having Game 4 of the '04 World Series on my SD card (so I can live the final out and a Red Sox championship over and over again :) )

DonS

[Darren Behan]

Thanks, Don. I'm using WMP 10 on the desktop, WMPM 9 on my iMatePDA2k and MusicMatch. I use WMP 10 to copy and can successfully do so to RAM but get a licensing error on the Storage Card. I was hoping that this might be solved by WMPM 10 as there are rumors the iMate folks will be releasing a ROM update with it included.

Go BoSox! Grew up in western MA myself. Almost feel empty now but there's still the Bruins & Celtics to disappoint...

db

[Don Sorcinelli]

Thanks, Don. I'm using WMP 10 on the desktop, WMPM 9 on my iMatePDA2k and MusicMatch. I use WMP 10 to copy and can successfully do so to RAM but get a licensing error on the Storage Card.Yep. There's the issue. WMP 9 Mobile allows for the content to be copied directly to the device; nothing removable. The advantage of the Janus DRM scheme is that the licensing structure will allow you to copy to removable storage, but still tie the content to the device (when I say "advantage", I mean from a licensing protection point of view of course).
Go BoSox! Grew up in western MA myself. Almost feel empty now but there's still the Bruins & Celtics to disappoint...Hey - look on the bright side. The Bruins are no more disappointing then any other NHL team this season... :roll:

DonS