Playing purchased music on a pocket pc.

De Rigueur · Post by **De Rigueur** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 5:58 pm

I bought some songs at walmart.com and wanted play them on my pocket pc, but it looks like this can't be done. Apparently, pocket pc's are not 'music service friendly'. Maybe they can't handle the licenses. Bummer. When I tried to use the 'copy to device' function in media player, it deleted the music file. wtf? Thank you, Bill Gates.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 6:53 pm

Are they WMA's? The license is only valid for your machine, IIRC.

De Rigueur · Post by **De Rigueur** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 8:34 pm

The license permits unlimited downloading to portable devices, it's just that it works with only certain types of players - most of the recent mp3 players, I suppose. But it won't work w/ pocket pcs.

And yes they are wma's. Shoulda got mp3's, I guess.

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 8:35 pm

Hook the line out into somethings line in and do an analog capture to wav, then re-encode to mp3.

De Rigueur · Post by **De Rigueur** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 8:38 pm

Hey, worth a try. Thanks

De Rigueur · Post by **De Rigueur** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 8:53 pm

I didn't know you could use MS sound recorder to record something played by Windows media player. Seems to be limited to 60 seconds, though. Maybe I can find another sound recorder.

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 9:15 pm

goldwave will do ya.

pATCheS · Post by **pATCheS** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 11:16 pm

In the Volume Control program, go to Options and select the Recording radio button. Then in the list below, you might see something like "Stereo Mix", "Loopback Record", or something to the effect of getting your audio back into the PC. If you do, great, enable it, hit OK, and select it with one of the tick marks (some sound cards let you have multiple recording sources selected at once; make sure that the loopback is the only one selected!). This should give you a much cleaner loopback than any line loop will. You'll lose enough audio quality going from WMA to MP3 (not because MP3 is worse, but because they are totally different formats and keep different parts of the audio information. you lose a lot by re-encoding, especially with low bitrates.).