Fairplay Version 2 protected files not playing

Recently got a 32gig 3rd generation Touch and noticed some older music and videos I bought through iTunes won't play. Videos say they cannot be played. Music just refuses to start, if I press play it pauses itself. Newer music and videos bought through iTunes store and my own recordings work fine.
The only thing that everything that won't play has in common is that under info they list "Fairplay Version: 2" Everything that does not list a Fairplay version will play. Wikipedia says that Fairplay is the old protection Apple used to use. I can upgrade the songs through iTunes to the non protected version (for $.30 each), but I can't seem to fix the videos.
3rd gen Touches don't recognize Apples old DRM? Can this be fixed? Anyone else notice this?

I am having the same problem with AppleTV and Itunes not playing Fair Play version 2 content after upgrading to Windows 7 So far Support for the ITunes store has not come up with a solution. I am very concerned since I have a significant amount of content that is affected by this problem. I haven't checked yet whether my Ipod's will play this content but will now. However, rebuying the content as the earlier post suggests is not an option since the content affected - TV seasons - equates to roughly $500 in purchases.

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HELP....AVCHD / MPEG files not playing correctly!

I have been trying to download video that was shot with the new Sony FS100 camera that I'm told are AVCHD or MPEG files to my older Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 timeline, but they are not playing correctly. When I reverse the field dominance, the image plays better but the sound is strange (I was able to speed the sound to 450% and it worked better, but then the balance of the sound from the clip is lost somewhere.).
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Thanks for your reply, I ran it through Media Info. Here are the results:
Container & general information:
MPEG-PS: 290 Mib 4min22s
1 Video stream: MPEG video
1 Audio stream: AC-3
First Video Stream:
8833 Kbps, 720*480 (4:3), at 29.970 fps, MPEG video (NTSC) (version 2) (Main@main) (Custom Matrix BVOP)
First Audio Stream:
256 Kpbs, 48.0 Khz, 16 bits, 2 channels, AC-3 (DVD-Video)
Please let me know where to go from here. Thanks so much!
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:50:15 -0700
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Subject: HELP....AVCHD / MPEG files not playing correctly!
    Re: HELP....AVCHD / MPEG files not playing correctly!
    created by Ann Bens in Premiere Pro CS4 & Earlier - View the full discussion
Welcome to the forum.A screendump of what these SD files exactly are would be very nice.Run them throught Media info.http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en
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HELP! AAC protected files wont play on my computer or download to new nano

About 100 of my songs are listed in iTunes as AAC 'protected' and each time I try to play them iTunes instructs me to 'authorize this computer'. I have done that and when I finish iTunes tells me that 'this computer is already authorized' but it still wont play my songs or let me download to my new iPod. This is the same computer I have always used. What do I do?

kkbart1970 wrote:
About 100 of my songs are listed in iTunes as AAC 'protected' and each time I try to play them iTunes instructs me to 'authorize this computer'. I have done that and when I finish iTunes tells me that 'this computer is already authorized' but it still wont play my songs or let me download to my new iPod. This is the same computer I have always used. What do I do?
There have been many problems reported of M4P files not playing correctly in 9.1. Hang in there until a fix comes.
Unfortunately M4Ps cannot be played in any player besides iTunes. You might want to think about an iTunes Plus upgrade.

Newest version of flash player not playing in newest version of google chrome but works fine in IE

newest version of flash player not playing in newest version of google chrome but works fine in IE

jennifer.jones214 wrote:
In your opinion, should I uninstall Firefox if I am installing Waterfox?
Waterfox can coexist peacefully with Waterfox. I have both installed, but never use Firefox any more.
Not only can Waterfox run in 64-bit address space, it also is better optimized during compile time than Firefox. (For obvious reasons; Firefox is compatible with many old systems, Waterfox only needs to be compatible with new 64-bit systems.)
P.S. regarding Chris' advice above; Firefox and Waterfox use the same profile, so if that is actually the problem, then it will occur in both browsers.

Protected AAC music/files not playing or appearing in iTunes purchases

Any purchases which I made from itunes during 2007/08 which were protected AAC files will no longer play on my pc (nor download to my ipod). I get multiple 'This computer is not authorised to play....Would you like to authorise it?' When I authorise it, it tells me that 'This computer is already authorised (2 out of 5)'. But the track will not play and again asks for authorisation. The tracks that will not play are all 'Fairplay version 2'. I thought about deleting them and downloading them again as I understand that Apple no longer encripts files, but they do not appear in my previous purchases in my itunes account (no purchases before 2011 appear?) - so I assume that I cannot download them again. So i have the tracks in my library, the 'info' says that they are registered to my itunes account, but it seems that because they are encripted I cannot play them. Help please!!

I am having what seems to be the same problem as Julie described. After purchasing an album on itunes, I created a CD-R disk that will play on the computer but not on any of several players I tried. The CD shows (Get info) each tune to be an MP-4. In ITunes...the tracks are shown as AAC protected...I don't know the difference.
It appears Julie solved the problem by your suggestion to go to iTunes preferences...I tried that Pref>Advanced>Burning>and selected Audio CD and burned a second disk....actually I didn't change anything because my preferences were already set that way.
I would never buy anything else from iTunes that I cannot play on my home system. this has been a frustrating matter and I guess what I am asking is there a pausible solution?
To your questions:
Play on home CD player: message: No audio...although the Cd plays on the computer ok.
Media used: Memorex CD-R
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Operating System 10.3.9
iTunes 5.xx
Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.
thanks,
ron

Purchased music and m4p files not playing in itunes

Background: so I had @me.com account with all my music purchased but it got disabled. so I tried to reset it but of course my birthdate did not work. I dont have contacting apple but they could not verify me with only 1 security question, no credit card, and incorrect serial number. so the @me account cant be accessed. Later that year my computer got struck by lighting destroying the hard drive/computer. the good new is I had a backup of the music. I put the music file on the new computer and when I tried to play the .m4p protected files itunes wants my @me.com account I cant access. I have my music on my computer and on my ipod classic but can only play the music on my ipod classic. I have many more tracks I want to add to my ipod but dont want to lose the music I already bought. I already tried many times with program to convert the music but it seems that need the music to play in itunes to work (authorize computer).
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You could try doing this -
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Why does the audio in my .SWF file not play in a Browser?

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I'm having trouble getting older, embedded QuickTime files to play properly. Many of them do play but without sound.
An example:
The embedded QuickTime files in questions 6 and 10 here...
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Some very interesting observations which peaked my own curiosity due to on-again, off-again nature of the playback. I suspect this is either a "bug" or represents content handling changes that are currently in the process of "evolving." Not a web site programmer so I used iWeb to run some contrast-comparison tests on how audio was handled by the plug-in software when directly accessing the content by its URL and via the page embed strategies. My results mirrored yours in that:
1) All legacy codecs tested (A-Law, IMA, QDM2, QPV, and u-Law) in an MOV file container played correctly in the QT 7 player.
2) The same files all played correctly when content was accessed by the plug-in software directly using the URL reference.
3) None of the files containing legacy audio compression formats would play audio using the plug-in software using a web page embedding strategy.
4) An MP4 (H.264/AAC) version of you original clip played correctly in all instances.
5) Replacing your QDM2 audio track with an AAC audio track in the original MOV file allowed the file to play correctly in all instances.
Based on these observations, I suspect the problem is in the way the software is currently programmed to handle (or rather ignore) the embedded strategy content. However, as you indicated, it is probably time to update your files. Not only did the H.264/AAC version of your original file play in all instances, but it used less than 45% of the file space/bandwidth for the settings I employed as compared to your original "0706_split_brain_red.mov" original file.

Flash CC sound files not playing

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FLV Files Not Playing

On our website, championbaptist.com, we want to use FLV
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Mulva wrote:
> On our website, championbaptist.com, we want to use FLV
files. They work great
> locally, but do not play when uploaded to our web host.
The actual page that
> has the video inserted is
www.championbaptist.com/multimedia_Dec06.htm. I have
> been told by our web host that they support flv files (I
created an .htaccess
> file as well). Here is the code that is generated by
Dreamweaver when I insert
> the flash video:
Most likely you need to set up MIME type for the FLV file.
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I tried typing the absolute path to the swf file in the browser address bar and found it straight away. When I clicked on it the screen stayed blank.
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The .swf is loading just fine... but it is expecting to load a .flv video file.
The path inside the .swf to the .flv file is not correct. The path inside the .swf to the .flv file needs to be relative to the .swf as it's located on the Web page, NOT the physical location of the .swf.
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So unless your .swf is broken, it just a pathing issue.
From an old post:
Pathing issues
Almost always when it works on the local machine and not the server, it's a pathing problem.
You can put your Flash related files in whatever folders you want, they do NOT have to be in the root, they do NOT all have to be in the same folder. But if you have a problem and if sticking them all in the root folder works, then you know that the issue was a pathing problem.
Just remember that paths used in the .swf become relative to the Web page on which the .swf is placed, NOT it’s physical location. So for example, if your .swf is in the flash/data folder and you use that .swf on a Web page in the root folder, you are in effect, removing that .swf from flash/data and putting it in root. So if the .swf is loading any related files (xml, images, video, etc), the path used inside the .swf to load the .xml file has to be relative to it's new location in root and then back down into flash/data. This is true even though when testing the .swf by itself, it can be inside flash/data and work just fine, since relative to it's location, the path is just fine, they are in the same folder. But if that same path is used when the .swf is placed on a page two folder levels up, the relative path has changed, the old "same folder" path will not work.
In fact if you are placing the .swf on a web page in a different folder than the .swf is stored in, and that .swf calls external assets, then direct clicking and opening of the .swf in it’s folder should NOT work! That’s because the paths to the external assets should be relative to the Web page and not the physical location of the .swf.
So just be sure that you use addresses relative to the final Web page locations (not physical file locations) and you can put the Flash related files in what ever folders you want.
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Eye for Video
www.cidigitalmedia.com
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If you've installed Windows 8 on your computer instead of the previous Windows 7, you may experience an issue where none of your local files will play.
First try reinstalling Spotify, installing Quicktime, deleting all the Local files and unchecking everything in Preferences related to Local Files. Finally, make sure the files are a supported file format.
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If all you're missing is the required codec, there are plenty of free software offerings that will allow you to play DVDs - one example would be the application on the link below.
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I created a web page that uses javascript to play embedded wav files on an onclick event. I was having trouble with my Firefox browser not playing the wav files at all, so I thought I'd update from QT 7.1 to QT 7.3. This has caused my IE browser to stop playing the embedded files, and has not helped my Firefox browser, either. Uninstalling QT 7.3 does restore IE7's ability to play the embedded files. I'm using some simple popular Javascript for the function, and the page works for me in my home installation of Firefox, so I'm still mystified why the wav files won't play on my workplace Firefox (yes, I tried disabling all the other plugins, to no avail), and also, I need to fix IE7 now, as well. QuickTime Object is enabled in IE's add-ons list.
I did search all over the knowledge base here and at Firefox's site for solutions.
Suggestions?

Internet Explorer requires the "object" tag code and your html only uses "embed".
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