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June 17, 2006

music

FrontRow refuses to play MP3s?

Posted Jun. 17, ’06, 11:24 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Music

Front RowAnd the DRM saga continues. Only this time, users are running into problems playing not just DRMed music that they actually own, but DRM-free music they’ve ripped themselves from CDs.

Apple message board posters have complained of a handful of incidents in which FrontRow will refuse to play straight MP3s from a user’s iTunes library. The song files will play fine in iTunes itself, but FrontRow will say that “This computer is not authorized to play the selected song. Go to iTunes and authorize it.”

While no concrete solution has been found yet, some users are suggesting that it may be related to older ID3 tags (the metadata that stores a song’s name, artist, album, etc.); others thing it may be related to music libraries kept on external drives. Whatever it is, Apple needs to get on it lickity-split. I mean, come on, this is a Windows kind of problem, guys.

[Aehso’s Output via MacSurfer]


1 Comments

mitch said:

yeah this happened to me also. kinda screwed up my reason for buying a mac mini to be a media center for my stereo.

now i want to sell it and yell at apple.

June 18, 2006 9:01 AM

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