ERROR when playing protected WMA files in Hoster

[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.

[jlc_drummer]

Thanks for all the feedback so far - these are all imported from my CD collection rather than Music Match downloads- is there something I should be doing different when I rip them to the hard drive?

[gpayne]

I don't know what version of WMP you are using, I am using Version 10. There is a checkbox in the tools/options/rip music settings box that has to do with protection. If that box was checked when you ripped the CD's the resulting WMA's could be copy protected on your hard drive. Other than that I am not sure what it would be. Hoster is pretty straight forward. I did notice that the WMA's that I tried to import that would not play had some astronomical number in the duration field.

gpayne

[MTUSUPPORT]

Jlc,
What program are you using to Rip the Songs into the Computer? Also, it may help for you to email me one of the songs that will not play for you, so that I can pass it alone to the Engineer for him to take a look at it.

You can email me at support on this Page: http://www.mtu.com/support/contact-mtu.htm