ERROR when playing protected WMA files in Hoster

[jlc_drummer]

I am using XP Home, just loaded 2.219 and it loads WMA files into the play list and shows READY, but some will not play and show ERROR in the status line. Others play fine. All loaded to the hard drive with Media Player. AMD 1800+ processor, 512MB ram, Sound Blaster Live card.

[Beavis]

did you try playing the ones that dont play in hoster in your media player ??

maybe the song is bad!

[jlc_drummer]

Yeah, everything plays fine in Media Player and it tends to be entire albums, so if a song plays in Hoster, all songs from that album play, if the ERROR status comes up, all songs from that album show ERROR

[gpayne]

I had the same problem! I found that WMA files that I downloaded from MusicMatch music service were content protected. Hoster would not play them. I verified this by taking a non content protected MP3 file and converting it to a WMA file. When I loaded the file converted to WMA from MP3 into Hoster, it worked perfectly. I guess if we buy downloaded content protected WMA files we will not be able to play them in hoster. I wonder if MTU would care to comment on this!

Hope this helps

gpayne

[gpayne]

I just took all of my content protected, downloaded, paid for WMA files and ripped them into Windows Media Player as WMA lossless files. I had burned all of them to a cd disk. I loaded one of them in hoster and it played perfectly. I don't think hoster can import a protected file. You can burn them to CDG's then rip them into Windows Media Player as WMA files and hoster will load them.

gpayne

P.S. There is probably no way hoster could load content protected files because it would have to decipher them.

[admin]

Hey... thanks for pointing this out. We'll take a look at if we can play content protected WMA songs on the same computer.