Encrypted WMA files and my IPod.
March 12, 2008 by Graham Doel
Filed under Techy
I need to play a hymn at a funeral tomorrow. There’s not going to be many people there (2) so singing is out of the question. So we agreed to play the hymn. The truth is I don’t have any hymns on my ipod so I had to buy it. My usual Russian sources don’t sell hymns so I had to go to a British store. I chose Tescos Downloads and paid an astronomical 79p for the offending item.
I paid no attention to the format so was a bit miffed when neither my Ubuntu Linux Laptop and my itunes app (running on Louise’s windows laptop) wouldn’t play it. To get over the problem I had to use Windows Media Player to burn the encrypted file to a cd, then rip the file from the CD back to the computer in order to transfer it to my ipod.
What a bizarre world when you have to go to such lengths to play music that you have bought and paid for on your ipod! Anyway I now have one hymn on my ipod. How long will I keep it on?
Summer Celebration on Thu, 13th Mar 2008 5:54 pm
I bet I had it, you should have come and asked me.
Also, what Russian sources? I thought they’d all gone…
Catriona on Thu, 13th Mar 2008 7:57 pm
Sounds very complicated!
Why do you ‘need’ a hymn? Has the one/two requested it? One of my local crems has a great digital hoojamaflip that can play hymns with or without voices and they have a good repertioire to boot.
Hope it was worth the 79p (which I have no idea whether that is dear or cheap, I’m still on old fangled technology) and more importantly that the funeral goes well
admin on Fri, 14th Mar 2008 9:33 am
Matt, it was “All the way my saviour leads me”. I never thought to ask you for a hymn, you never fail to surprise me!
Catriona, I’m afraid the news of the availability of a “Digital Hoojamaflip” hasn’t reached the North West yet. We still have a real live organist! They wanted to play the song because they wanted a hymn but didn’t want to sing.