Music Files Access Denied !

[blewyn]

I have two directories of music on a hard-drive, all ripped from CD
(all of which I own). When I upgraded my main hard drive, which meant
re-installing Windows XP, I simply left the music files on a secondary
hard drive for safe keeping. I now find that many of them won't play
- ITunes simply doesn't play them and Media Player keeps saying
'access denied'. When I try to remove the 'read only' attribute, it
tells me it can't.

Help ! It took me 3 months to record all my CDs and I really, really
don't want to have to do it all again !

Cheers,

Blewyn

 

[Pemo]

I have two directories of music on a hard-drive, all ripped from CD
(all of which I own). When I upgraded my main hard drive, which meant
re-installing Windows XP, I simply left the music files on a secondary
hard drive for safe keeping. I now find that many of them won't play
- ITunes simply doesn't play them and Media Player keeps saying
'access denied'. When I try to remove the 'read only' attribute, it
tells me it can't.

Help ! It took me 3 months to record all my CDs and I really, really
don't want to have to do it all again !

You're not trying to use Media Player ver 9, are you, bach?

The twisted shambling horrors in the Redmond dungeons have incorporated with
it an unconscionable, predatory and monopolistic Big Brother Palladium
affront to the free use of legitimately purchased music, having formed an
unholy alliance with the big music etc labels.

See http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html

It is about 100 years since the US Congress was forced to enact anti-trust
and anti-monopoly legislation to curb the amoral excesses of Rockefeller.
Time for it to be revisited - the bastards are out of control again.

Recently M$ described an Australian State Govt move to shift its Departments
from Windows to Open Source as a "denial of free choice". The bastards
don't see the irony - they are actually serious!

Cymru am byth!

Pemo

 

[blewyn]

You're not trying to use Media Player ver 9, are you, bach?

The twisted shambling horrors in the Redmond dungeons have incorporated with
it an unconscionable, predatory and monopolistic Big Brother Palladium
affront to the free use of legitimately purchased music, having formed an
unholy alliance with the big music etc labels.

See http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html

It is about 100 years since the US Congress was forced to enact anti-trust
and anti-monopoly legislation to curb the amoral excesses of Rockefeller.
Time for it to be revisited - the bastards are out of control again.

Cymru am byth!

Pemo

Diolch Pemo !

Does this mean I simply can't play my mp3s and I have to record the
whole bloody lot again ? Surely there's a way around this - they're
not protected files, they're simply tracks I have ripped from CD with
Media Jukebox and MusicMatch. Oddly, all my 128Kbps tracks (which I
copied direct from the 160KBps 'master' files so I could fit them on
my IPod) play fine, it's only the original 160KBps tracks (and only a
random number of those) that won't play. Some albums will play, some
won't at all, and some have some song that play and some that don't.

What does this mean for future upgrades ? Do I have to re-record my
mp3 collection every time I buy a new HD or motherboard ? That's
ridiculous !

Recently M$ described an Australian State Govt move to shift its Departments
from Windows to Open Source as a "denial of free choice". The bastards
don't see the irony - they are actually serious!

I'm guessing their stance is that it's denial of free choice for them
to specify open source because it denies the departments the choice of
using Microsoft - but that they never raised this point when the
choice was in THEIR favour...

Hwyl,

Blewyn