On a related note...

If anyone ever runs into any trouble being able to play "locked" files like that, there is a work around. Actually, I'm sure there are several work arounds, but here's one that I know about.

This work-around assumes that:

A) you can't get the song in any other format besides the "locked" format, and,
B) because of (A), you're willing to live with the possible artifacts that can be induced by re-compressing an audio stream a second time.

What you do is get a cool piece of software called Total Recorder. It installs itself as an audio driver in Windows, in between your apps and the actual sound card's real driver. It intercepts all data sent to your sound card and streams it to the hard disk. You can save it as a .WAV file and then re-encode it in any format you like (or leave it as a WAV file if you like).

I've used it to rip the audio track of DVDs, and streaming media.

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Tony Fabris