MCE Tunes Supports iTunes DRM Playback

re: MCE Tunes Supports iTunes DRM Playback

Griffinplay — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:18:52 GMT

I've been using SoundTaxi for 3-4 months and trust it.

SoundTaxi supports WMP 11 fine and any iTunes updates too. It's also extremely easy to use and 12x fast!

re: MCE Tunes Supports iTunes DRM Playback

chrisl — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:00:43 GMT

Although HP had the idea first, HP Tunes was really crap. It used a separate executable to allow users to browse music through MCE, it didn't use the My Music UI. If was limited to the only of songs you could import, and I didn't think it supported playback of protected songs from the iTMS. No Extender support, and doesn't and never will do videos (the newer versions of MCE Tunes do).

MCE Tunes integrates with My Music, supports virtually an unlimited number of tracks, has Extender support said to be coming, now support playback of purchased videos/movies, and more.

HP Tunes is no where equal to MCE Tunes.

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UK User — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:09:55 GMT

Looks like a rip off "HP Tunes". Even the screenshots in the DOWNLOAD page has a menu item HP TUNES !!! HP Tunes is still available on hp.com http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=pv-36785-2&lc=en&cc=us&lang=en&os=228&product=435776&dlc=en If you extract the files.....and edit the MSI under LAUNCH consitions table, you can install by running the MSI

re: MCE Tunes Supports iTunes DRM Playback

chrisl — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 19:54:12 GMT

Using MCE Tunes, it just adds the data to your current WMP/MCE Library. So, yes using My Music is still needed.

I can't answer the rest, I tested with a very small amount of purchased music from the iTMS.

re: MCE Tunes Supports iTunes DRM Playback

Dave — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 19:45:25 GMT

I have 35GB of music, because of the "bug" in MCE I had to convert my entire library over to WMA so I can browse my library through MCE and not have it take decades. As I understand this "bug" the introduction of even a few MP3 formatted files to my library, will slow down MCE, has anyone tried MCE tunes with a Large library, does it work with mixed file formats? does it eleminate the need for the MY MUSIC part of MCE?

re: MCE Tunes Supports iTunes DRM Playback

chrisl — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:03:04 GMT

Currently, no. But there website implies that they are working on the feature.

Q: Does MCE Tunes work with extenders like the XBox 360?

A: Unfortunately the current version does not, but registered users will receive a free update to an extender-enabled version automatically.

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re: MCE Tunes Supports iTunes DRM Playback

peyote — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:10:04 GMT

yea, but does mce tunes stream to xbox 360?

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re: MCE Tunes Supports iTunes DRM Playback

chrisl — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:42:21 GMT

Nope. I believe it uses the QuickTime/iTunes SDK. A process runs in the background to enable playback, it's 100% legal and it isn't breaking FairPlay to do.

re: MCE Tunes Supports iTunes DRM Playback

Tim — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:34:34 GMT

I'm guessing Apple didn't license FairPlay to this company (Proxure) so they either reverse engineered the FairPlay DRM protection scheme themselves or are a paying customer of DVD Jon's recent FairPlay crack (through his DoubleTwist Ventures)...the timing is peculiar on that one!

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