i can’t say as it ever occured to me to encode music with windows media player, but if i did
this would make me a very unhappy man:
” By default, Windows Media Player encodes your music collection using your machine’s unique key, so that you can’t share, loan or give away the tracks you rip to your machine. What that means is, if you have some file-system or OS corruption and reinstall from scratch, then restore your music collection, it will be unusable. “