I'm dying to hear "United States Of Division," but I'm not too familiar with Windows Media Player.

I want to hear the new song for the first time on my stereo (ie, loudly), so I'd rather to burn it to a CD and mix it with other Prince songs. It seems a waste to use a whole CD for one song.

I've ripped all of the other songs into MP3 format, from the CDs which I purchased. Will Windows Media Player, with its digital rights management, allow me to do this?

Do you understand what I'm saying?

Thanks!

PB

yeah, you'll do just fine. the only weird part is the whole license thing - after you stumble through that part, you should be able to burn the CD, no problem.

Thanks for responding so quickly.

I've thought Real Player to be so superior that I actually deleted Windows Media Player from my computer.

Apparently WMP is the only program Prince will allow us to use to burn this song though, so I'm downloading the Windows player, once again.

Happy Interdependence Day !

PB

PurpleBrain said:

I think you have to play the track once on on media player while connected to the internet, so that it can obtain and verify the license. After that it should be fine. So you might have to play it once with the sound down if you don't want to hear it that way first!

You can burn to cd using media player but it has to convert to .wav files - which are much bigger files so you won't be able to fit as many tracks on one cd. I don't think it will play if you burn a cd of mp3s because of the licensing issue.

PurpleBrain said:

Actually the best program to probably have is itunes. It combines the best of all of them and plays and burns without a hitch. Real Player turns all of your music into their type of files.. The only time I use the Windows Media Player is when I play the downloads from the Club.

If I may answer my own question, I just downloaded "The United States of Division". I mixed it with other Prince tracks and burned it onto a CD, using Windows Media Player.

Everything worked perfectly!