Hi, guys I have a problem here. I have tried a dozen times to add two particuliar songs
to the Zara Playlist. But somehow, Zara refuses to let me add these songs. I've had no
problem with any other songs, just these two. One song is Darius Rucker's "Wagon Wheel"
and the other is Extreme's "More Than Words". I really want to get these songs added to
the playlist. I would very much appreciate any help and advice from you fellow part15
broadcasters.
WillyJ
WLPR @AM 1580
Strange that 2 out of thousands of songs won't be accepted. maybe it's a copywrite thing, or in a non compatable format.
Try a different approach, maybe downloading the songs from Youtube with Youtube downloader in MP3 files or different file formats and then see if they go on.
Mark
I've run into this at our LPFM when a host brings in music copied from his IPhone using Zara or any other player on the PC.
Looking closely at the file attributes I noticed the copy protection bit set.
This is a security feature to prevent copies of copies sort of like the audio CD-R which won't let you copy the CD-R.
Anyway, some of his files refuse to play on any other machine/PC and I think this is the issue.
The work around was to find them on YouTube and record the playout.
Just copy the url from the YouTube video you want to convert, usually found under the video's description is a link labeled share. That opens a url you can copy into the website Convert2mp3.net. This website converts the videos into high quality mp3, wav, or aac+ and mp4.
The easiest solution is probally to open it in Audacity, and the export it back out again, it will correct the problem. You might want to export it at a higher bit rate than the original so that any recompression of the file will be minimal
I've seen this happen before on a Windows 98 running Zara, Zara uses WMP to handle file playback so if WMP doesn't have the "rights" Zara won't play. To get the "rights" usually all you have to do is play the file through WMP once.
Other than that, the other suggestions are fantastic and are all worth a shot. The Audacity method works very well.