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Windows Media Player and Napster

by dreamngtree Jul 5, 2010 2:15AM PDT

I keep running into this problem with Windows Media Player in that it thinks that the music I ripped from my CDs came from Napster, and therefore I don't have the right to play it. (I had the same problem with Rhapsody.) If I reboot my computer then sometimes I can play the song. None of my music came from Napster. How do I fix this and prevent this from happening in the future?

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I would use another media player.

by MarkFlax Forum moderator Jul 5, 2010 6:58AM PDT

But have you looked at WMP's Tools > Options?

There may be options there that will prevent WMP from searching the internet for additional information about these tracks, eg I found in WMP, "Download usage rights automatically when I play or sync a file".

I can't say whether any of those settings will help, but they may.

Mark

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