Why isn my content transcoded when I transfer it to my portable device?
The file you are trying to copy to your portable device may be protected. A protected file is a digital media file that is secured with a license to prevent illegal distribution. When transferring to a portable device, the Player cannot convert protected content to other encoding formats (for example, from WMA to MP3) or to other bit rates (for example, from 128 kilobits per second (Kbps) to 64 Kbps). When transferring to a portable device, the Player can only convert unprotected content to other formats and bit rates. Please also note that if you had hacked the WMP10 installer in order to install it onto Windows Server 2003, DRM may be broken on that machine until you format it, even after the upgrade to Windows Server 2003 SP1.
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