February 9, 201412 yr Hello, I used Windows Media Player 7.1 to rip a couple of songs. Only problem is that *ONLY* windows media player can play the files I ripped. Tried opening several songs in XMPlay and Trout but niether worked. By the way, these songs work fine when played through WMP. I even turned off "personal rights management" under the CD options because I was reading about how it records your license or something like that... meaning, these songs are only playable on this computer. Well, I don't know, all I know is that I can't get any other program to open and play my songs in .wma format. It would be nice to have a single program that can play cd's and rip the music... but I guess that ain't gonna happen. I upgraded from 7.0 because that thing always seemed to get buggy after a while, I'm experimenting with WMP 7.1 for the heck of it. Normally I would just use WMP 9, but that program is more of a resource hog. Any possible reasons for why I can't play these .wma files in other programs?
February 9, 201412 yr Author I format my hard drive like every 2 months, and I save my MP3 files (several hundred) onto a data CD, so I guess there's absolutely no point in using WMP 7.1 to rip songs. Unless somebody can tell me why they don't work...
February 9, 201412 yr Author Hmm... upgraded WMP 7.1 to 9.0 and now the .wma files it produces are playable using XMPLay and Trout. I guess this should be a word of caution to WMP 7.x users. Don't rip files with it. They're only playable using WMP 7.x and nothing else. Edited February 9, 201412 yr by LostInSpace2012
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