Rosemary,
DRM stands for "Digital Rights Management".
iTunes Music Store uses a version of DRM called "Fairplay", which
allows purchasers to do certain things with the tracks they own, but
not others.
For example Fairplay allows a song downloaded from iTMS to be used on
up to 5 macs/pc's, burnt to any number of CD's, or downloaded to an
unlimited number of ipods when they are connected to one of the
abovementioned 5 computers.
So what you have probably come across is a track that contains a
Windows DRM (or Destra's own) that will only allow the track to be
played on a computer that has specific software, in order to try and
limit the end users ability to share the track with everyone else that
hasn't gone to Destra's website to download the track.
As for how to get around it, I don't know!!
Daniel F.
On 29/01/2005, at 12:39, Roger and Rosemary Horton wrote:
I downloaded a track from Destra music
http://MusicandGames.destramusic.com (still waiting for Apple to get
their act together!)
It was in wma format..wouldn't play on Windows Media player on my Imac
(Panther) (says it only plays on Windows WMA player!)
Message reads
"The content you are trying to play is restricted to Windows Media
Version 7.1 and above running on Windows Operating systems"
Downloaded Easywma http://www.carrafix.com/EasyWMA/ which is supposed
to convert wma to mp3.
This programme says it converts the file but it converts the title and
nothing in it.
Reading further it says "Notice that EasyWMA will not convert wma
audio files including DRM. For these files, EasyWMA will problably
just create an empty file."
Don't have a clue what DRM is.
Anybody had better success with playing files from Destra?
Rosemary Horton
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