By Ina Fried
Published: Thursday 01 March 2007
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Name
Graham Coles
Location
UK
Occupation
Software Engineer
Comment
Sounds awfully like a DRM induced issue - perhaps the zune is spending too much cpu time trying to work out if the song was purchased that it didn't have enough power to play it.
Still, it probably sounds better than the 'almost plays for sure' songs which won't even play on it ...
Judging by Peter Guttman's article on the cost of putting hardware DRM in Vista, this could be the shape of things to come for multimedia on windows. Perhaps it would be a good time for a mass move to linux, where media players are just media players and not encrypting, bus monitoring, tamper detection intrusion systems.
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