I am on Vista and am using Windows Media Center 11. I have been trying to
download and burn songs on CD from a reputable music website. I have had
problems just playing some of the songs. Now that I have fixed that problem I
am encountering another. There are about 20 songs on my burn list and when I
try to burn them I get an error message saying " At least one file in your
list has been protected with media usage rights. Protected files will not
play on car or portable CD players but may work on other computers if you
download new rights on the other computer. Do you want to continue anyway." I
tried burning the disk once and sure enough, it played on my computer, but
not on my car player. I always make disks for my car so it is important that
I can use the CD there.
I have been back and forth with the on-line techs at the company and they
are absolutely no help. I have already downloaded most of the songs twice due
to the other problems I had. I noticed that when I go to the properties of
each song, the usage rights are different. The songs I am able to burn have
no usage rights and the other songs that I can't burn have usage rights that
say you can burn up to 3 times etc. The people at the music website have not
even addressed this as a possible cause of my problems. I just don't know
what to do. Any suggestions???

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zachd [MSFT] - 29 Jun 2008 21:55 GMT
Are you burning data CDs? That's what it sounds like - for your car player
which only has limited playback support, you would need to burn Audio CDs
for this particular usage.

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>I am on Vista and am using Windows Media Center 11. I have been trying to
> download and burn songs on CD from a reputable music website. I have had
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> even addressed this as a possible cause of my problems. I just don't know
> what to do. Any suggestions???