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Company:

Sony BMG Music Entertainment

Product:

Various copy-protected music CDs

Category:

Media, Audio

Problems:

To listen to the music on this disc, you need a PC with the following minimum system requirements:

One of the following operating systems
[...]
Windows 2000 SP4
Windows XP Home
Windows XP Pro
[...]
Logged in with Administrator rights

Workarounds:

(More to come after a detailed evaluation)

I have an Apple Macintosh computer. Will the disc work on my MAC?

Yes. This disc will behave like a traditional CD in a Mac.


This suggests the CD will play normally on a Windows PC with Windows Media Player or Windows 2000's included CD Player as long as the included software is not installed.

References:

http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp/english/requirements.html

http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp/english/faq.html

Submitted:

11/4/2005

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