error (licensing problem)

while puting songs on my rca lyra with yahoo! music engine i got half way through and an error message shows up saying the rest of the songs on the playlist need to be relicensed. my problem is that i am unable to relicense the songs and can find no way around this wall. please help

 

I believe you can burn them to a CD and then re-rip the songs, this time without DRM. Otherwise, all I can say is, unfortunately, welcome to the wonderful world of DRM and purchased music.

 

ok found out that it dosn't matter what song it is. i took the sd card out and put it in my 9n1 to see if would work but i get a message saying the file can not be created.i still have a considerable amount of space ,about half. any more info?

 

Check to see if the filesizes are set to zero when the SD card is in your PC card reader. The files might be corrupt. It could still be DRM though as DRM usually generates the same errors.

Can you download the files from your Lyra to your computer via USB?

 

don't know what you men by file size set at zero but the files can be copied to the computer from the lyra via usb ,just not copied to lyra via usb.

 

Can you play them on your computer? What format are they? In other words, are they MP3 or WMA?

 

ok been away 4 a while they can all be played on the computer and most are MPEG-3 but some are MPEG-4. I've been tryin different things and found out that it's not letting me transfer like it's full but I've still got a little less than a third of the volume on the SD card. I think that will make for an easyer diagnosis. But could be wrong

 

Well, the MPEG-4 shouldn't play at all. I'm not aware of any device which supports it, though you could probably find an AAC to MP3 converter at videohelp.com's Tools section.

Find out if the Lyra has an internal format utility and reformat your card. If that fails, get an SD cardreader or find someone who does and reformat the thing. Most likely, there is some file or memory corruption. Seems to be common to Lyras as I just had to recover files from one tonight.

Look for 0-byte files. This may work when connected by USB, but should always work when the SD card is in a reader. Open Windows Explorer a.k.a. My Computer to whatever disc the SD card or Lyra shows up as, then right-click somewhere on the file listing that does not have a file name, and select View, then Details. You should see a filesize listing. If some are 0 bytes (or < a couple megabytes) you probably have file corruption there.