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How do you play protected audio files?
  1. 24 Aug 2010 #1


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    How do you play protected audio files?

    I had an old computer and didn't realize that every song that I ripped from CD's was protected. Now I took my old hard drive out of that computer to get the stuff off of it, and copied all of the audio files to my current computer, but they won't play because they're protected. How do I play these songs?


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  2. 24 Aug 2010 #2
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    Re: How do you play protected audio files?

    What is the extention for the song? is it a .aac or .mp3 or .m4a... etc

    Also what Audio program did you use on the previous computer?

    (Itunes, Windows Media player... Etc)


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  3. 24 Aug 2010 #3


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    Re: How do you play protected audio files?

    Some files are MP3's and some are WMA

    I used windows media player on the previous computer and on this one

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    Re: How do you play protected audio files?

    What do you get when you try to Play the Files? do you get any Error codes?

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  5. 25 Aug 2010 #5
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    Re: How do you play protected audio files?

    Try to take ownership of the files.

    Take Ownership of file

    Tutorial thanks to Brink

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