[Hiker Man]

A couple of years ago I created a MP3 disk using EMC7. I "upgraded" to EMC9, and I now want to split the era's (40's and 50's music) into two seperate MP3's. All of the information is still on my hard drive, and the titles drag to the new playlist ok. The problem is that when I try to record the newly created playlist, I get a message on several songs that the licence for those songs is invalad, and those songs won't record. Swell, but these are from my own collection, and I've never had this problem before. Also, the songs I got from Napster are not giving me a problem. What gives? I debate if this was an actual upgrade, or a downgrade on the part of Roxio.

Hikerman

[gi7omy]

Sounds more like a p[roblem with the license info from wherever you obtained the songs

Roxio doesn't 'license' them

Did you by any chance install Windows Media Player 11? The reason for asking is that is far tighter on DRM than any prevuious version

[Hiker Man]

Never used 11. No licencing involved with my own CD from which the songs were recorded. Songs taken directly from my original playlst.

[gi7omy]

It's possible then the CD is copy protected in some way (not unknown to happen)

[firenhancer]

For a test, are you able to burn them with WMP? Are you able to play the tracks in question on computer?

[Hiker Man]

Yes, I can play them on the computer. A couple of years ago, all of the songs from this purchased CD (and many others) were recorded to the computer. From there, some were added to the playlist, along with tunes purchased from Napster, and subsequently recorded down to my MP3 CD with no problems. Now, just a few of the songs in the playlist pop up with this message about not having the licence, which was never an issue before, and shouldn't be now. The reason I don't try to record from the original CD is because it took me forever to compile the playlist in the first place. Now I don't have the time to re-invent the wheel, if, and when, I run into this problem when I expand my new '40's playlist. There are hundreds of songs stored in the computer. Methinks Roxio has made it more difficult to create playlists, which sould be eaiser to do now.

[Hiker Man]

Yes, I can play them on the computer. A couple of years ago, all of the songs from this purchased CD (and many others) were recorded to the computer. From there, some were added to the playlist, along with tunes purchased from Napster, and subsequently recorded down to my MP3 CD with no problems. Now, just a few of the songs in the playlist pop up with this message about not having the licence, which was never an issue before, and shouldn't be now. The reason I don't try to record from the original CD is because it took me forever to compile the playlist in the first place. Now I don't have the time to re-invent the wheel, if, and when, I run into this problem when I expand my new '40's playlist. There are hundreds of songs stored in the computer. Methinks Roxio has made it more difficult to create playlists, which sould be eaiser to do now.

IS ANYBODY OUT THERE, OR DOSEN'T ANYONE HAVE A CLUE???

[Brendon]

What operating system are you using, and what service packs have you applied to it?

[REDWAGON]

And what programs in EMC 9 are you using to do all this work ?? BTW, EMC 7 will co-exist with EMC 9 very nicely, so if you still have EMC 7.x and you can separate your 40's and 50's audio files with it, you might want to try that.

Frank...