malebolgia Veteran Posted March 16, 2004 Veteran Share Posted March 16, 2004 I have iTunes (PC version) both at work and at home. I'm planning on purchasing 150+ songs later on in the week. Exciting isn't it, well it would be if I had a decent connection on my home computer (dial-up). So I?ve decided to download the songs on my dedicated T1 connection at work. Then burn them to a CD-R as a data disc (then copy to my home computer). My work machine isn't the fastest; it only has a burning speed of 2x. This may be the problem. Let me explain I downloaded 1 song off of iTunes and have yet to burn it to a CD-R successfully. In fact I've tried over 5 times and I still keep getting the same error message "The Disc "Please Work" cannot be read. An unknown error occurred (-50).? So does anyone here have an idea of what I should do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SabaTime Posted March 17, 2004 Share Posted March 17, 2004 Personally I don't think you should be posting this here, but I'll try to help since I know a little about PC's What program are running to burn your files? sometimes if you disable Norton or any antivirus while burning helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+chorpeac MVC Posted March 17, 2004 MVC Share Posted March 17, 2004 The obvious I can suggest. Make sure the disks you use are the correct format CD-R and that they are data disks not music disks. maybe try a different burning software. I think Nero has a trial version you could use. Could you transfer them to a pda, usb memory stick? i think you can authorize them for use on a specific computer later on right? I'm going to need to know how to do this anyway when I get my new machine. I think you have to deauthorize them for use on the computer you downloaded them onto, then when you copy them to the new computer to play, then you have to reauthorize them on that computer. Then you wouldn't have to burn it to CD. Please correct me if I am wrong in this process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mAcOdIn Veteran Posted March 17, 2004 Veteran Share Posted March 17, 2004 You don't have to use iTunes to burn the files. There's nothing inherintly special about the m4p files you get off iTunes that makes it to where iTunes is the only player/burner that can handle them. That's the good thing about iTunes. Since there's no certificate or anything else besides the actual songfile itself backing them up is relatively easy, you can back up a song the same way you'd back up any document or video or whatever. My backup is I copy them all to a seperate hard drive so if the main one fails I can just point iTunes to the other hard drive and it'll copy them over. Edit: sorry chorpeac I opened alot of threads in tabs so your post wasn't there when I made mine. You're right though you can use anything to backup your songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+chorpeac MVC Posted March 17, 2004 MVC Share Posted March 17, 2004 What about the authorization part. When you buy it from iTunes music store, it sets some authorization on the file where you can't take it to other PCs right? You have to do the deauthorize on one PC, copy it to the other PC, then reauthorize it there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoMayhem Posted March 17, 2004 Share Posted March 17, 2004 Just burn all the m4p files onto a data CD with nero. Then import them at home and authorize your computer with the username/password you bought them with. Easy as that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+chorpeac MVC Posted March 17, 2004 MVC Share Posted March 17, 2004 there we go, that is an answer I was looking for. malebolgia, it looks like you can do the authorizing procedure I was talking about. You can copy them anyway you want. Just like a file. If you are having trouble with the cd burning, try a usb flash drive, or some other high capacity media Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mAcOdIn Veteran Posted March 17, 2004 Veteran Share Posted March 17, 2004 What about the authorization part. When you buy it from iTunes music store, it sets some authorization on the file where you can't take it to other PCs right? You have to do the deauthorize on one PC, copy it to the other PC, then reauthorize it there? Nope. What happens is you take the song and bring it to another computer with iTunes. Run iTunes and try and play the song and it pop's up saying this is a secure file or some crap like that enter the apple/iTunes account and password to play the file, which you do, then iTunes contacts the apple server over the internet verifies it, and allows that computer to now play that file. There is no license in reality. Now there is a keyring somewhere on the system but that cryptography stuff's over my head I don't know how exactly it works and all that but it doesn't need to be backed up when moving files because once you play the song in another computer with iTunes and it properly connects to apples servers and gives that new computer authorization it generates the key file for that computer. But the keyfile is not placed in the song it's in the registry. Now you're only allowed 3 computers to be authorized at any given moment to play those files so it's important that you de-authorize a computer after you're succesffully backed up the songs and moved them to your computer. Edit: beaten by NeoMayhem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+chorpeac MVC Posted March 18, 2004 MVC Share Posted March 18, 2004 alright, nice to know information. Thanks guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malebolgia Veteran Posted March 18, 2004 Author Veteran Share Posted March 18, 2004 Thanks guys I used Nero to backup the file and when I got home everything worked out fine. Thanks again, -Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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