Posted by Charles Russell on 10/08/06 23:29

Charles Russell wrote:
> Deutsche Welle is offering free classical music mp3 downloads from
> second-string (but good) German orchestras on their web site. Funny
> thing, though: When I try to play them using Windows Media Player, I get
> the following message:
>
> "Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support
> the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress
> the file."
>
> However, these files play just fine using either itunes or the Goldwave
> Audio Editor, and mp3tagtools show nothing funny about the tags. What
> is going on here? The files were downloaded using wget, not itunes, so
> that Apple had no opportunity to play with the file and make it Apple-only.
>
> Do mp3 files ever include any kind of DRM?

Simply deleting the id3v2 tag, using mp3 tag tools, enables Windows
Media Player to play the file. Anyone know why?

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