Copying secure music to a Pocket PC?

[aircasper]

i'm not sure where else to go for help, so i decided to turn to the knowledgeable folks on this forum for help with copying music to listen on my Dell Axim x5 Pocket PC.

i purchased and downloaded a few tracks through walmart's online music site, which is supposed to allow me to copy the tracks to a portable device. only when i try using windows media player (on my xp professional desktop) to copy the tracks to the axim, the progress bar shows the copy progress and reaches 100%, but then i get "an error occurred" message. when i click on more details, it says "the networkpath was not found." Anyone know what this means and how to correct it? i think i've already tried copying to both "pocket_pc" and "built in storage" with the same results.

i'm able to copy music that i've ripped from a cd onto the pocket pc just fine, so i'm guessing my problems stem from digital rights managment issues. but songs downloaded from walmart are supposed to be transferrable to portable devices. 😕

any thoughts? thanks for your help!

 

[blackdogdeek]

i usually just use windows explorer to transfer files to my pocket pc. have you tried that?

 

[aircasper]

Originally posted by: blackdogdeek
i usually just use windows explorer to transfer files to my pocket pc. have you tried that?

i can use windows explorer to transfer the song files to my pocketpc, but when i try playing a song, the pocket pc gives me an error message saying it can't find the license for the song. from what i understand, i need to use windows media player on my desktop to transfer the secure songs to my pocketpc so that the license rights get transferred properly as well.

 

[fs5]

you can always burn it onto an audio CD and then re-rip it. :evil:

 

[aircasper]

Originally posted by: fivespeed5
you can always burn it onto an audio CD and then re-rip it. :evil:

this may be a dumb question, but does that somehow get rid of the digital rights management issue?