Sony has implemented digital rights management (DRM) on last memory sticks duo. I've bought a 128 mo Duo extension and I was very disapointed !
That means you cannot copy anymore mp3 files from your computer to your brand new memory stick !!!
If you do, you'll get the message : file type not allowed !
There is a solution : use an ogg player ! You'll find a very good one at www.geocities.com/p800tools called Oggplay.
Last version 1.10 ( you must install it after the 1.0 version) is fantastic.
Forget about mp3 and f.. the DRM !
Is this true?Can anyone confirm this?If it is,i will never by another sony product,ever.
Originally posted by GhostDog
Is this true?Can anyone confirm this?If it is,i will never by another sony product,ever.
ya, me too! i hope its not true though.
Originally posted by gderidet
That means you cannot copy anymore mp3 files from your computer to your brand new memory stick !!!If you do, you'll get the message : file type not allowed !
i will probably be corrected wrong, but i do not think sony will hvae put this lock feature on memory stick duo's, this is because memory stick duo's are for storing data, any data,
could it just be that you were moving the mp3's into the wrong folder? mp3's can only be stored in the "audio" folder or the "other" folder, if you are using the pc suite, if you're using the file manager, then you can put them into any folder
If by DRM you are referring to MagicGate, that's been around on Memory Sticks for ages. It doesn't stop you putting MP3s on the stick, my 128MB Memory Stick Duo is full of them! MagicGate technology is DRM, but it only works in association with selected other Sony products, like walkmans and camcorders. It can limit what you transfer on using certain Sony software, but it doesn't limit you in anyway for yuor phone! Why else would you have got an MP3 player bundled with the phone's software in the first place?
i just tried ogg files on oggplay and its way better than mp3s! tnx gderidet!
Originally posted by nk8
i will probably be corrected wrong, but i do not think sony will hvae put this lock feature on memory stick duo's, this is because memory stick duo's are for storing data, any data, could it just be that you were moving the mp3's into the wrong folder? mp3's can only be stored in the "audio" folder or the "other" folder, if you are using the pc suite, if you're using the file manager, then you can put them into any folder
I confirm that Sony has implemented digital rights management on memory sticks duo . Please See http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/02/19/HNsonydrm_1.html?storage.
It is Sony answer to SD card which manage DRM for a long time.
But nk8 remark is true : with pc suite I can copy mp3 files from my computer to only audio unfiled folder.
Worst : I cannot copy my ogg files to audio folder : not authorized ! I cannot move file neither. But I can copy them to my document folder ! In fact trying to sort your music files is quite impossible.
I've read somewhere that with DRM you can copy a protected file from your computer to your device ( i.o my P800) but you can't copy later the same file from your memory card to another computer.
It seems that this will be the case with my mp3 files on my memory stick duo card.
That's why I say that memory cards with DRM like SD cards and Sony sticks are no more data cards ! They are RIAA weapons !
And because I manage 2 computers at my home and 1 at my office, because I like the same music on differents computers, I'm going to forget mp3, which is not a free format, and stay stuck to ogg format which, I hope, will remain free.
By the way I own, too, an Iriver memory and music device. I'm glad to inform you that Irever now allows ogg file format on some Iriver devices, added to mp3 and wma (another f... DRM addicted format)
Stay tuned, but take care !