I had an MSN Music account that I used to buy only 5 or 6 songs. It's a good thing I didn't buy more songs as that DRM site bit the dust thanks to Microsoft and Zune. Can you transfer files from MSN Music to Zune? No, of course not, that would be too easy. And recently after using a beta version of WMP 11, I installed the final release and guess what, I could not get the MSN Music software to install. Great, now my MSN Music songs will never play. I worked with their technical support team for a bit before I finally gave up and chalked it up as a loss. The funny part was when I asked if I could transfer my MSN Music to Zune, they said to burn the music to a cd and rip as MP3 so Zune could play the non-DRM MP3!!! This DRM stuff is crap.
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I had an MSN Music account that I used to buy only 5 or 6 songs. It's a good thing I didn't buy more songs as that DRM site bit the dust thanks to Microsoft and Zune. Can you transfer files from MSN Music to Zune? No, of course not, that would be too easy. And recently after using a beta version of WMP 11, I installed the final release and guess what, I could not get the MSN Music software to install. Great, now my MSN Music songs will never play. I worked with their technical support team for a bit before I finally gave up and chalked it up as a loss. The funny part was when I asked if I could transfer my MSN Music to Zune, they said to burn the music to a cd and rip as MP3 so Zune could play the non-DRM MP3!!! This DRM stuff is crap.