Protected MPEG-4 file

[lee3...@btinternet.com]

I have been trying to copy over a track downloaded from iTunes and it just won’t do it. I’m assuming because it’s protected. I’m not sure I’ve come across this before and wondered if there is a work around.

My other issue is a disc (x2) I’ve previously loaded (Joan Sutherland: voice of the century). Every time I click on it the web UI freezes or shows different information from the disc I’m trying to look at. This appears in finder as Apple MPEG-4 audio so I’m assuming the two issues are related. I’m not techie so would appreciate any help but I’m starting to think I should just delete these two to see if it stops causing the problem.

[Steve Peers]

Hi lee3

The first issue may be (DRM) related - see  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topicsearchin/brennanb2/author$3Ame/brennanb2/AZHeAX7XawI.

The "other issue" may be due to a mismatch between the artist-folder, album-folder and track-file names and the internal b2db database names, so try Scan Disk.

Steve

[Mark Fishman]

Even if the track is protected by Apple's DRM, if iTunes can play it then iiTunes can burn it to a CD (there's a limit on how many times). It will then be a normal audio CD, which you can rip on the B2 or on your computer. The quality will not be worse (nor better) than it is right now by being converted to WAV and burned to CD, so as long as you keep it as either WAV, or FLAC, or some other lossless format, it won't get any worse, either.

[lee3...@btinternet.com]

I’ve now obtained some cds to copy protected downloads to Brennan B2. Sorted out the Joan Sutherland album and all seems to be well. However, another album (Shirley Bassey Get the Party started) has copied to the Brennan but only as Album xxxxx. I’ve renamed it, downloaded tracks from Amazon and artwork. It keeps reverting to artist unknown.

[Daniel Taylor]

Have you run the Scan Disk command?