Does the following explanation from Buymusic about why I
can't transfer songs from my PC to an iPAQ 1910 make ANY
sense to you????  Does MS know that Pocket PC devices
(which by definition support Windows Media DRM and WMA,
et. al.) are being cut out of these services for no clear
reason???

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Thank you for writing to us.

We are responding regarding your order #17679937.

We apologize for any confusion.  Please note that we do
not support the transfer of songs to a PDA.  It does work
for some models, and for some it does not.  The main
factor is if you have a DRM compliant media player (such
as Windows Media Player 9.0) on your PDA.  Most PDA's do
not support any versions of Windows Media Player higher
than version 7.1.  For all practical purposes, we
consider a PDA a PC simply because it uses a graphic
interface operating system in the same way that a PC
does.  However, as the songs would need to be stored on
the internal memory of your PDA in order for them to
work, it is simply not practical to use a PDA with the
songs on our site as the average PDA user only has
16MB of internal memory (enough to hold roughly 3-4
songs).  It is for this reason we have decided not to
offer support for the transfer of songs to a PDA.  We
apologize for any inconvenience.

For further information, please refer to the BuyMusic.com
Help Center Frequently Asked Questions section at the
following link:  
http://www.buymusic.com/support/help.aspx#FAQ.

If you have additional questions, please contact us at
support@customerservice.buymusic.com.

We appreciate your business.

Sincerely,

Customer Support

Original Message Follows:
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This makes no sense.  I purchased music from you before
and was able to transfer the content. Also, I see no way
to download content directly to the PDA since it is
tethered to the PC via USB and when content is downloaded
it is sent to the PC since the PC is the Internet-
connected device.  Also, Windows DRM does not function in
this manner since in fact a PDA is NOT a PC and cannot
decrypt DRM protected content as downloaded from the WEB;
it must FIRST be downloaded to the PC and then in the
process of transferring to a thin client device like a
PDA it is transcrypted into a device-friendly format and
licensed to that device by WMP.  My iPAQ is
no different than a Rio in this respect. How can I get a
satisfactory resolution to this problem?

Thank you for writing to us. We are responding regarding
your order #17679937.  We apologize for any confusion,
but any palm-top computers do not count as digital media
players when considering your licensing rights.  Your
personal digital assistant would count as a secondary
computer because it has an operating system.  In order
for the songs to obtain the appropriate license, you will
need to download the songs to your PDA directly from our
web site.  Transferring from your primary computer
will not allocate the correct licensing privileges for
you to successfully play your song on your PDA.
Please download these songs from the internet to your
PDA.  Windows Media Player on your PDA should recognize
the correct licensing information.  Please note that you
will need to be connected to the internet the first time
that you play your songs so that the licenses
can be downloaded to your PDA.  Additionally, these songs
will only work if they are stored on the internal memory
of your PDA. Unfortunately, we are unable to guarantee
that your PDA supports the system requirements necessary
to play songs purchased from BuyMusic.com. If you
continue to experience problems, please contact the
manufacturer of your PDA.  We apologize again for any
confusion.
We appreciate your business.

I have tried to transfer these tracks to my iPAQ 1910 PDA
using WMP and continue to get failures.  Contrary to what
is stated, it does not appear the appropriate licenses
are contained in these files to allow device transfer.  
Please advise.

I am using:
WMP 9 on my PC running Win XP
PDA is HP iPAQ 1910 running Pocket PC 2002 and WMP 8 for
Pocket PC The files play on the PC.  
I have repeatedly removed the files from my HDD and re-
downloaded with no success.  I have tried to transfer the
files to both the internal PDA memory and to the SD flash
memory card.  I am using a Sandisk 256MB SD card.