Please help! I have Windows Me. My Windows Media Player will not play all my .wma music files because an error message saying "An error in digital rights management has occured." Also, because of this problem, I just found out that I cannot burn these .wma files to CDs anymore. I checked out Microsoft support on the net, but I didn't find any solution. Microsoft is asking me to delete two files on my hard drive under DRM directory. These two files do not exist anywhere. Any help will be greatly appeciated. Thank you

Im no expert but if u downloaded these files (which im asuming you did) i wud delete them and then download them from a different location.That should work.

No--you probably don't need to delete and redownload the files. Look here for more information: http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/24/index4a_page3.html?tw=multimedia HTTP://NEWS.COM.COM/2100-1023-884588.HTML HTTP://WWW.MICROSOFT.COM/WINDOWS/WINDOWSMEDIA/OVERVIEW/GLOSSARY.ASP A brief excerpt from Hotwired: Audio purists on the Net have been widely dissing the player since its first mention, and the hissing feedback isn't just the standard, knee-jerk response to anything Microsoft. This time, the complaints are about something more serious: digital rights management. In order to keep you, the consumer, from illegally copying the music you've purchased, by default Microsoft's Windows Media Player encodes your digital music library in the secure, proprietary WMA file format. This file format only plays back on the Windows Media Player, and WMA files cannot be transferred to some portable audio players. Also, the bitrate is lower than the high-quality MP3s or Ogg Vorbis files that you're used to by now. Sure, you get a smaller file size, but you also get tinny sound and noticeable digital flaws.

When DRM was proposed, my initial thought was that this is really just Microsoft trying to impose another proprietary standard on the industry at large and another manifestation of their competition with RealNetworks--all under a rather transparent guise of protecting intellectual property rights. Everything I've seen and read since seems to confirm my suspicion. By the way, when I stated "No--you probably don't need to delete and redownload the files." in my previous post, I *did* mean "probably". Zan's advice isn't bad and could conceivably solve your problem. I just suspect there may be more to the issue.