Windows Media Player - Download License - Windows Media Services Plug-Ins

[frankschechter1]

Hi guys,
Using my desktop pc (Windows XP Professional), I copied songs from my cds to the computer thru Windows Media Player and then moved all the songs to my portable hard drive.
I connected my hard drive to my laptop (Vista Home Premium) and tried to play the files thru Windows Media Player. Unfortunately, WMP 11 did not play the file but opened a Mozilla Firefox window leading to a site that would ask me to download license.
Upon clicking the 'Download License' button, I encountered the error that said I had to install Windows Media Services plug-ins.
I searched for this plug-in and found out that it was associated with WMP 9 and not WMP 11 so I thought installation might cause conflicts or might create more errors. I'm not so good at computer and I don't even know which to install when WMP website gave me too many options and downloadables.
These make me so frustrated and I don't even know if I could still copy my songs from my hard drive to my laptop and play them.
Could someone please help me out? Please...

[bigBonehead]

Hey Frank... welcome to the forum.

The only thing I can think of is that it's a DRM (digital rights management) issue within WMP 11.... As I use WMP very little, let me see if I can walk ya through this: (btw, i'm sure there will be better advice to follow from others...) The problem as I see it is this: If you didn't get into the guts of WMP 11 when you copied the music, it was probably saddled with the Microsoft DRM default handle. So when you went to play it on yer other computer, It kicked in (i think it's a copyright thing) and wouldn't let ya do that. If , in the future you want to stop that, then you gottta acsess the 'Options' menu pull down under 'Library' allthough it is available through different ways... Lets just stick to this point:

Under 'Options' select the 'Privacy' tab, and Un-Tick everything.
The key here is the one 'Tick' in "Download Usage Rights Automagically when I Play or Sync a File"

I'm fairly sure that's where the problem lies.... Again: I don't use WMP much, so I'm not 100% on this... but give it a try.

BTW, you will have to re-do the files on yer HD, if you want to transfer the files that way I believe.... The other possibilities are: Copy and paste the files from the HD to the Vista notebook, or Burn baby burn.... {;>