Originally Posted by CPMaverick
You own the CD and ripped them to your hard drive with a protected DRM? That's new to me.
Maybe you just ripped them to a file format your iPod can't understand?
Correct on both counts.
1. The earliest CDs were ripped to a hard drive on Computer A in the early or mid-nineties, I believe, and subsequent CDs to computers B, C, D and E. All of the songs have been aggregated to an external hard drive along the way, and computers A, B, C and D are long gone.
Now on Computer F, none of the songs ripped to Computers C through D will work because of DRM, and I suspect some of the ones I can't play were early in the life of computer E as well. Computer A songs (the earliest) are no problem, and ones I think are from B are also OK.
So apparently, DRM went into effect somewhere during the life of C, and now it has caught up to me as I try and load them onto Computer F.
2. And of course, transferring them from the old WMA/WMV/whatever format to mp3, etc. for the iPod is negated with today's software if I don't use the original CD.
Do I really want to rip a thousand CDs again, knowing that the same thing will happen in a couple of years? Not so much.