On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:22:30AM +0100, raddished wrote:
WMA is an evil pile of crap, have you read about the people who lost their entire music collection when windows died on them and they didn't know they needed to backup the key to decrypt their audio?! .ogg rules because it has a nice free license and works on all platforms
Hmmmm.... i have a key gen (several) for WMA studio and for interest really and therefore everything is free, ive never paid, bought for anything so i guess im lucky(?) or dodgy(?) or both... yiiiiippppeeee.
no, you are missing the point, later versions of windows media player when ripping music from CD will encrypt and digitally sign the files it creates with a key. If your disk goes *boom* and you have a backup of your music but not the key then you lose ya tunes. It is a "feature" of the file format I personally wouldn't want to use a media format that has the potential to stop you listening to *music you own* or have purchased... Tis also another reason why microsoft suck. -- jabberid = quinophex@jabber.earth.li AFFS || http://www.affs.org.uk/ || Not a filesystem