mp3 query (please help)

[Bronagh]

I have lots of music saved onto my windows media player and normally it is easy to put them onto my napa MP3 player. I have tried to save some new music from media player to mp3 player tonight. The names of the songs have saved onto the mp3 player but they don't play. I can't hear them and the timing is off on the display screen i.e. the timing jumps from 0:00 straight to 0:30 without playing. Does any-one have any idea's? PLEASE HELP!

[wideboy]

Have you upgraded Windows Media Player recently? Have you altered the Digital Rights Management settings. Are they saved as mp3 or as wma format?

[Bronagh]

I upgraded to media player 10 but my mp3 wouldn't work on media player 9 either (which I used previously and it worked).  The files are saving to the mp3 as wma format files. Any idea?

[Bronagh]

My brother had installed Neromix onto the PC and I thought that might be causing the problem so I deleted it.  Do you think this could be the problem?

[wideboy]

Some mp3 players will not play protected wma files. The protection needs to be turned off. personally, I would record as mp3 unless space is a problem. Not sure about neromix interfering. Usually the problem is with Digital Rights Management.

[Bronagh]

Do you know how I could fix this problem?  The media player is buring files onto CD's OK but won't save to mp3.  I checked and the files are protected. 

[wideboy]

Try this:-

Tools

Options

Rip Music

now unclick the Copy Protect Music box

[wideboy]

Wasn't thinking! Are you just trying to put Cd tracks onto mp3? If so, hunt down the free, easy to use program CDEX.

[fo3nix]

iTunes will also do what you want.

as well as Winamp.

both far better than windows media player

[Bronagh]

I will try using CDEX and using the other sites.  Cheers for your help,

Bronagh