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S.O.S. on Windows 7 Media Player 12

I am a complete Novice at trying to build a Music Serving System between my Computer and my Stereo System. It appears that I really blew it by purchasing Windows 7 with
Media Player 12. Everytime I play, Burn, Sync., Rip, or Burn a CD or DVD; Windows Media Player links up with WindowsMedia.com. All of my actions are monitored, observed, recorded, and controlled by WindowsMedia.com. WindowsMedia.com polices the use of my Media thru Digital Rights Management, and controls any Copyright access I have to my Media. It is like having a Policeman in my room, standing over my shoulder everytime I put a CD in my
DVD-Rom. I had no idea that trying to create a Music Server
with PC would mean someone eyeballing everything I do just as I listen to my Music. Can't believe that Bill Gates, and Microsoft, would support this invasion into my Privacy. Might have to abandon Music Serving all together, never had this problem with CD Player. Have no way of knowing who is watching everytime you Play, Burn, Sync., Rip, or Download a CD/DVD/MUSIC FILE. Don't need Microsoft, or anyone else in my bedroom with me based on utilizing their Media Player either. Can they also monitor everything I do? This would have been a real helpful piece of information prior to everyone trying to shove the whole Music Serving mess down everyones throat. With a CD Optical Disk, I at least knew that my Privacy was Protected. With a PC Music Server, my Privacy is up to the highest bidder. It gains a Man nothing to win Music, but at the same time lose it's Soul!
pettyofficer
pettyofficer OP
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Ponnie: You don't use Media Player at all? Is this a Windows 7 System with Windows Media Player 12? What about
the automatic Online link to WindowsMedia.com, that kicks in everytime you stick any Disk into the DVD-ROM? What about the automatic scanning of that Disk by WindowsMedia.com for Media Usage Rights prior to allowing the Disk's use/ Ripping a Copy/ or Playback? Ditto for Downloads, Transfering Music Files, and Burning Copies? There has to be a Program outside of Windows Media Player 12, that automatically links you Online to WindowsMedia.com, weither you want to go there or not! Is this Program installed in Internet Explorer? If so, how do you get rid of it? Will this Program interfere with your usage of a different Media Player for Downloading, Playback, Ripping, Burning, or Internet access to do any of these? Anytime I load a CD, I am linked (being monitored) by WindowsMedia.com within a microsecond. Choose not to go there, and you loose Internet access to your Media Player-that pretty much squashes Downloading, unless that is the whole idea? Sounds a little too convenient (premeditated) by Microsoft for me! All exits are conveniently blocked! I really can't handle all of this convenience!
pettyofficer OP
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Just to recap. Everything I do from Playing Back Disks-CD, DVD-Audio, DVD-Video, and CD-R. Everything I do from Ripping, Burning, Playback of Music Files, Transfering Music Files, Downloading of Music Files, Upsampling, and Downsampling. Everything that I do with my Media, I have to get permission or Green lighted by outside Online monitoring by WindowsMedia.com/ Media Usage Rights? This is a benefit from Windows 7? I can skip all of this by using a CD Player? I am the only one that has a problem with this? What if WindowsMedia.com makes a mistake with its Media Usage Rights? What if half of my CDs are unplayable, or unrippable by a WindowsMedia.com mistake? Who do I see about that? This is perfectly acceptable to everyone? Are you sure that you can handle this convenience? It is way too much convenience for me!
pettyofficer OP
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Simple questions: Does Media Monkey, Foobar 2000, Roxio, or Nero utilize DRM (Digital Rights Management) with their Downloaded or Ripped Music Files? If so, what does this do to my CDs from 5-10 yrs. ago that I want to Rip to Hard Drive? Because these Disks have no Media Usage Rights stored on Disk, does Digital Rights Management block me from Ripping these Disks? WindowsMedia.com has already pulled up the wrong playlist on several of my CDs. Obviously, it will cross reference songs from different Albums by mistake. Obviously, it will also cross reference the Media Usage Rights by mistake in the same manner. I can be blocked from ripping a song that I have Media Usage Rights for by mistake. How do you correct this?
pettyofficer OP
462 posts
 
No Answer! Well then, I guess that you can't rip everything from your CD Collection to your Hard Drive after all. Well, that doesn't quite match the promotional
punditry that I have been reading for PC Music Serving! It
is so convenient, your Music at your fingertips, you won't
have to mess with piles of CD Jewel Boxes again, you can listen to your Music in any room in your House, and it is
s-o-o-o-o-o convenient! You will never go back to your CD
Player again! Uhh, don't throw away that CD Player just yet! Your wonderful PC Music Server might not play PROTECTED FILES from your CD Collection! That is the Truth of it, STOP glossing over it! The only thing that will play
these CDs IS your CD Player! Heaven help you if your PC Music Server mistakes several of your CDs as PROTECTED FILES when they aren't! Several Songs can be cross-referenced from various Albums, Songs that aren't PROTECTED
FILES can be mistaken as such! You are screwed without a CD
Player! No-one here can even suggest a solution to this problem. Maybe they are just hoping that everyone will overlook this, once they are suckered in to the so-called
convenience! I R-E-A-L-L-Y can't handle all of this Convenience! Everyone else's Convenience at my expense! And you guys SOLD this LEMON to the unsuspecting PUBLIC! You claim that you don't work for Microsoft or the Recording Industry, well you sure as hell are their best advocates! If I were you I would demand a paycheck, you have certainly earned it!
pettyofficer OP
462 posts
 
Thanks for selling the rest of us out! I am sure that there
is a Special, "Convenient" place in Hell for People like this. Don't spend the 30 pieces of Silver in one place!
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