media player licence migration ?

[hoanikai]

i recently had to reconfigure my computer with windows XP professional after the original packed a sad when someone else was using it.
i managed to get everything back up again however the media player seems to have lost some sort of plugin that deals with licence migration ?
as a musician i had ripped copies of my songs into the media library earlier and now find i cant play them or burn them. this is proving to be frustrating
i am using media player
does anyone have any ideas that may helphttp://pressf1.pcworld.co.nz/images/icons/icon9.gif

[Speedy Gonzales]

Whats the exact message / error??

What version of WMP is it?

[hoanikai]

aloha speedy thanks for being there
windows media player 10
as soon as i try to play the file it transfers to a windows page and says a licence is required
when i go to download the license file it comes up
error your netscape browser doesnot have microsoft windows media services plugins
hope this helps

[gary67]

Is it because they have been ripped as wma files if so you can convert them to mp3 by using this tool here then they could be palyed back on any mp3 player. If not have you tried VLC here media player plays just about anything

[hoanikai]

the files are wma and are my own compositions
i never had any problems before i had to reconfigure the windows xp setup

also i am reading up on wmp faq page about drm
there seems to be a lot of stuff to work through

was hoping someone out there might have a quick fix suggestion

[gary67]

why not create a copy of them and then try converting the copied ones

[hoanikai]

have just figured that may be be the way to go
will keep the thread open in case some other thoughts surface
thanks for your support

joy2joyNjoy

[Speedy Gonzales]

Get this

Close firefox or whatever the default browser is

See what happens when that error comes up again. If it still says it doesnt have the plugin change IE to the default browser.

[SolMiester]

LOL...i had this issue years ago, a friend wasnt impressed after I had to rebuilt his PC. I had copied the wma\mp3 files to another hard drive and when we went to use them after the rebuild we got the error message about no licence.
I didnt find a solution to the issue at the time and since then I have always use the backup licences option on a regular basis....

Good luck

[hoanikai]

thanks speedy
will do that later tonight
had already located the page