multiple occurrences of all songs on CDs ripped to computer...DRM   

6.3.09

HI! HELP PLEASE!

1.  suddenly, yesterday (without creating a playlist in windows media player 
11), when i just tried to play a CD in the CD drawer, a very long, random, 
player list appeared! 

why did this happen???

2.  i noticed when i began to delete songs from that playlist and add songs 
to it that 

a.  there are multiple occurrences of each song on many of the album CDs 
that i ripped, without any awareness until today of the copy protect 
mechanism being set by default to "on."  (i turned it off, today, but of 
course there is no way to get new licenses for all of my CDs that i have, all 
purchased at stores or purchased from people that bought them, none of which 
are burned--why would a copyrighted author like me ever take a burn?).

b.  this means that for instance, when i view the path names for the first, 
second, third, fourth and so on occurrances of only ONE song out of the 
entire CD (all of its songs appear the same number of times within the 
"artist" list) (but not all my CDs have these multiple song occurrences), 
there are separate paths for each of the duplicate occurrances of ONE song!  
why is that?

3.  the only thing i can guess at, since i just got a different external 
hard drive to do a mirror image and then backup(s) on, is that because norton 
ghost imaged my drive on my old external hard drive and created a recovery 
point each time it did it, that these various paths were created when the 
hard drive was imaged!

4. now when i want to add one of these duplicated songs (usually 4 
occurrences of each on SOME of my ripped CD collection), i am given the error 
that says that i have to obtain a license from microsoft, but, when i tell it 
to do it, then:

5. i see this:

"A license is required to play this file

The file you are trying to play was ripped (copied) from an audio CD.

During the ripping process, the file was "protected." This limits the number 
of computers on which the file can be played.

To play the file on this computer, you must download a license (a process 
known as "license migration"). A license acts an electronic key that allows 
you to "unlock" a protected file and play it.

To download a license for this file, click Download License.

...

"Notes:

Microsoft keeps track of the number of license migrations that have been 
performed for this content. Microsoft does not collect any contact 
information (such as your name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address) 
to perform the migration. For more information about the information that is 
sent to Microsoft, see the Privacy Statement.

For more information about protected files and license migration, see the 
Windows Media Player FAQ page."

AND, WHEN I CLICK THE BOX TO OBTAIN THE DOWNLOAD LICENSE, I SEE THIS:

"Error:  Your Netscape browser does not have the "Microsoft Windows Media 
Services" plugin installed."  

5. but i checked, in my MOZILLA FIREFOX v 3.0.10 default browser, for that 
plugin, and yes, it is there as well as that it is ENABLED.  i don't use 
netscape--that does not exist anymore.   

6. so of course i investigated this all using the FAQs and troubleshooting 
articles, but nothing helps!  

WOULD YOU KINDLY TELL ME ALL OF THE STEPS BEGINNING FROM 1 ONWARD TO FIX 
THIS PROBLEM?  because:

i am going to install the newer external hard drive tomorrow, 6.4.09, and 
then i am first going to do a mirror image of my hard drive, but not using 
norton ghost 14 (unless you so advise, but it's a mess of a program), but 
using retrospect 7.6, which seems more straightforward and simpler than ghost.

THANK YOU FOR ANY HELP YOU CAN PROVIDE!!!

date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 17:24:01 -0700   author:   kikkilu

RE: multiple occurrences of all songs on CDs ripped to computer...DRM   

"kikkilu" wrote:

> 6.3.09
> 
> HI! HELP PLEASE! PS added 6.4.09:  my operating system is windows XP professional.  my assistant has XP home edition on her laptop which is wirelessly connected to my computer; however, i have not moved the media files to shared.  
> 
> 1.  suddenly, yesterday (without creating a playlist in windows media player 
> 11), when i just tried to play a CD in the CD drawer, a very long, random, 
> player list appeared! 
> 
> why did this happen???
> 
> 2.  i noticed when i began to delete songs from that playlist and add songs 
> to it that 
> 
> a.  there are multiple occurrences of each song on many of the album CDs 
> that i ripped, without any awareness until today of the copy protect 
> mechanism being set by default to "on."  (i turned it off, today, but of 
> course there is no way to get new licenses for all of my CDs that i have, all 
> purchased at stores or purchased from people that bought them, none of which 
> are burned--why would a copyrighted author like me ever take a burn?).
> 
> b.  this means that for instance, when i view the path names for the first, 
> second, third, fourth and so on occurrances of only ONE song out of the 
> entire CD (all of its songs appear the same number of times within the 
> "artist" list) (but not all my CDs have these multiple song occurrences), 
> there are separate paths for each of the duplicate occurrances of ONE song!  
> why is that?
> 
> 3.  the only thing i can guess at, since i just got a different external 
> hard drive to do a mirror image and then backup(s) on, is that because norton 
> ghost imaged my drive on my old external hard drive and created a recovery 
> point each time it did it, that these various paths were created when the 
> hard drive was imaged!
> 
> 4. now when i want to add one of these duplicated songs (usually 4 
> occurrences of each on SOME of my ripped CD collection), i am given the error 
> that says that i have to obtain a license from microsoft, but, when i tell it 
> to do it, then:
> 
> 5. i see this:
> 
> "A license is required to play this file
> 
> The file you are trying to play was ripped (copied) from an audio CD.
> 
> During the ripping process, the file was "protected." This limits the number 
> of computers on which the file can be played.
> 
> To play the file on this computer, you must download a license (a process 
> known as "license migration"). A license acts an electronic key that allows 
> you to "unlock" a protected file and play it.
> 
> To download a license for this file, click Download License.
> 
> ...
> 
> "Notes:
> 
> Microsoft keeps track of the number of license migrations that have been 
> performed for this content. Microsoft does not collect any contact 
> information (such as your name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address) 
> to perform the migration. For more information about the information that is 
> sent to Microsoft, see the Privacy Statement.
> 
> For more information about protected files and license migration, see the 
> Windows Media Player FAQ page."
> 
> AND, WHEN I CLICK THE BOX TO OBTAIN THE DOWNLOAD LICENSE, I SEE THIS:
> 
> "Error:  Your Netscape browser does not have the "Microsoft Windows Media 
> Services" plugin installed."  
> 
> 5. but i checked, in my MOZILLA FIREFOX v 3.0.10 default browser, for that 
> plugin, and yes, it is there as well as that it is ENABLED.  i don't use 
> netscape--that does not exist anymore.   
> 
> 6. so of course i investigated this all using the FAQs and troubleshooting 
> articles, but nothing helps!  
> 
> WOULD YOU KINDLY TELL ME ALL OF THE STEPS BEGINNING FROM 1 ONWARD TO FIX 
> THIS PROBLEM?  because:
> 
> i am going to install the newer external hard drive tomorrow, 6.4.09, and 
> then i am first going to do a mirror image of my hard drive, but not using 
> norton ghost 14 (unless you so advise, but it's a mess of a program), but 
> using retrospect 7.6, which seems more straightforward and simpler than ghost.
> 
> THANK YOU FOR ANY HELP YOU CAN PROVIDE!!!  
PS added 6.4.09:  my operating system is windows XP professional.  my 
assistant has XP home edition on her laptop which is wirelessly connected to 
my computer; however, i have not moved the media files to shared.  
>

date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 08:15:01 -0700   author:   kikkilu