MP3 playback My daughter has this phone and uses it as her MP3 player. She has transferred tracks to a memory card and the phone from PC but some of them dont play. "Variable bit rate" was once suggested as cause but the songs that play have different rates. Not all music is ripped from CD. One track with problem was downloaded and has DRM attached to it. Dont know if this might be answer? Any ideas? Thanks

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Drm is the primary reason why songs don't play on multiple devices. there is no way to fix that.

Posted on Oct 02, 2007

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