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?