Zen Mirco loading prob

I just bought my Zen Micro yesterday. I was very excited and hurried home to start downloading to my Zen. After I loaded all of the software and everything, I tried to transfer mp3's to the device and most of them would not transfer because it said that I did not have a liscence to transfer or something of the sort. I know that if I did not PURCHASE the song, it would not transfer, but I am sure there is a way around this. Can someone please let me know how?

cheerioangel wrote:
Well I'm sure they were illegal if they were downloaded off of Limewire for free.
Discussing illegal music here will most likely get the thread locked, just to warn you. Not by me though, I'm not a moderator on this board, and I don't work for Creative.
I was trying to transfer them with the Creative software.
I think we need a little more info. Exactly what software you were using, how you were going about it, what the files are (MP3 or WMA) and what errors appear.
Do you think that there would be a problem if I transferred my CDs to the computer and then to my MP3 player? How would you go about doing that?
Very easy. Just rip the CD direct to the player using MediaSource. There are more complex ways if you're after very high fidelity ri
ps.
cheerioangel wrote:
Would I have to subscribe to somewhere like Napster to be able to download files and transfer them?
If you want to get music from an online store, yes.

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