Grr. Access Denied errors on trying to copy MP3s over net.

Post #276,638 by Another Scott 12/25/06 1:19:13 AM Reply	Grr. Access Denied errors on trying to copy MP3s over net. I made about 2 GB of 192 kbps MP3s from CDs tonight and want to copy them from the machine I made them on to another machine on my wireless network. I used Music Match 7.5 on WinXP (SP2) to make the MP3s, and I want to copy them to a Win2K (SP4) machine. 3 albums of MP3s that a made a year or so ago copied fine. I believe those were made with Music Match as well, but I could be wrong about that. They were done on Win2k - I'm sure about that. I notice that the problematic album directories on the XP machine are marked with a gray "Read Only" attribute that I can clear, but it doesn't stick. Is some sort of DRM stuff on XP or MusicMatch biting me? :-( (I can copy .exe and .zip files back and forth from the two directories without any problems, and XP's disk checking tool didn't find anything amiss.) There are eleventy-seven permissions settings on the XP folders. Does one or more of them need to be adjusted? [link\|http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Marvin-Gaye/What-s-Going-On.html\|What's going on?] Is there a simple way around this problem, or do I need to reburn the MP3s using something else, or do it on Win2K? Is that Linux's siren song I hear? Thanks a bunch. Cheers, Scott.
Post #276,639 by boxley 12/25/06 11:16:28 AM Reply	winzip the files into a single archive then move? Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 51 years. meep reach me at [link\|mailto:bill.oxley@cox.net\|mailto:bill.oxley@cox.net]
Post #276,644 by Another Scott 12/25/06 1:31:16 PM Reply	Good idea. No worky though. :-( It seems to be a permissions issue. "zip I/O error: Permission denied" The files have 164 bytes of security attributes while the directories have 276 bytes. It seems to be a DRM issue of some sort. I'll have to put Linux on here and a different encoder. Thanks. Cheers, Scott.
Post #276,675 by pwhysall 12/26/06 3:05:24 AM Reply	Muahahaha. This is god's way of telling you to not use MusicMatch. Experiment: share up the directory containing the files, and access from a Linux box avec smbclient or similar. Also check for any services running on the Windows box that might have an interest in Protecting Your (Their) Rights. I'm not, offhand, aware of any constraints on copying DRMed files - just on the playing thereof. Peter [link\|http://www.no2id.net/\|Don't Let The Terrorists Win] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes! [link\|http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?pwhysall\|A better terminal emulator] [image\|http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h262/pwhysall/Misc/saveus.png\|0\|Darwinia\|\|]
Post #276,696 by Another Scott 12/26/06 1:14:41 PM Reply	Yeah... Our PowerMac G5 can see the MusciMatch-made MP3 files on the XP laptop over the network, but won't play them over the network and won't let me make a local copy onto the G5. No error pops up - it just won't do anything. Files made with CDex on a Win2k desktop and copied over the network to the XP laptop play fine over the network on the G5 (with iTunes) and copy onto the G5 just fine. They play fine on the XP laptop too. It's something weird about MusicMatch MP3s, apparently. At least when made on my XP laptop. I haven't been able to find any other discussion of this issue with MusicMatch, so maybe it's something unique with my laptop. But I've spent enough time fighting with it. I'm just going with CDex for making the MP3s now. Thanks. Cheers, Scott.

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