Re: Media usage rights

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On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:45:00 -0800, Confused
<Confused@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I cannot ?play? the original ?All That I Am? CD on my computer, it sounds
garbled. Other cd?s play fine. This CD plays perfectly on my stereo. Media
player still allows me to rip the CD, too, but when I try to play it back it
sounds garbled, too.

It's just possible it's one of those "Enhanced CDs" (I don't know
where to check) such as Zero 7's "When it falls"

They seem to have their own media player on the CD, which autolaunches
when the disk is loaded into a PC. If you Stop playback in WMP, can
you still hear the audio playing ?

How about if you leave the disk a couple of minutes, then play it -
any change ? This caused my CD Drive to thrash is it tried to read
first one part of the disk, then another (both WMP and the autostart
player from the disk were tring to read different parts of the disk !)


I was able to retrieve the WMA files from my recycle bin, not directly to my
WMP library but to my music folder. Two of the songs play correctly but the
rest don't.

You don't really need those, just to re-rip the CD


I haven?t tried the media advice website that you provided yet, but will
soon.

The same night that I deleted the original ripped files I also removed some
old programs thorugh "add and remove programs". Is it possible that I
inadvertantly removed something that pertained to the media usage rights?

No, that's pretty unlikely unless you also deleted some program
folders by hand - Add/Remove programs is the safest way to manage
this.
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