Happy ending

[Karl Larsen]

Michael "TheZorch" Haney wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>>     I got 2 songs in mp3 format from a Russian Doctor I talk with daily 
>> on Skype. He sends them while we talk. I got both which were single 
>> songs and double clicked one and Totem came up and gave an error that it 
>> could not read the file. Igor and I talked about this and thought 
>> perhaps there is some code in the file that indicates the area the music 
>> came from.
>>
>>     An hour later I tried it again and both songs played perfect. So 
>> something nice changed but I have not the slightest guess what :-)
>>
>> Karl
>>
>>   
>>     
> I'm not sure what happened here but copy protection and region coding is 
> not a part of the MP3 specification.  Straight MP3 files cannot be 
> DRMed, which is why the Micro$oft Zune (which is near death) and the 
> Apple iPod use proprietary closed source compressed audio formats that 
> CAN be DRMed, and believe me the Zune's DRM is far worse than the iPod's 
> FairPlay DRM.  So, I'm not sure what happened and why the file suddenly 
> started playing.
>
>   
    Very interesting. Well you are right I think. Maybe Totem had 
trouble too finding the right codex to use. But now the music from 
Krasnodor, Russia plays just fine in New Mexico, USA :-)

Karl


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