From.... http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20030923/tc_usatoday... It seems Sting is the next test case for this experiment. The album quality does not sound good on my computer and I now understand why, a CD can only hold 70 - 80 mins of music. There are two versions of these songs on this CD and the version for the PC does not have fidelity with over 65 mins of music on this Japanese release. It simply cannot fit teo copies. Sorry, another mistake from the King of Pain. The quotes from the articles below summarize the problem and you should be able to decipher the problem with the PC audio tracks. "Windows PC, the disc installs software to keep the music secure, and an interactive menu pops up with several links"..... same thing on this CD. "His CD, meanwhile, offers a glimpse of the direction the music industry is taking to prevent rampant piracy. The disc has two sets of music tracks: one set of "encrypted" songs that can be handled by CD players but cannot be ripped on computers, and a duplicate set of tracks in the Windows Media format. These can be downloaded from the CD to a computer and then transferred to portable devices or recorded to home CDs. But these "secure digital" tracks cannot be played on another computer should they be uploaded to the Net. "The whole concept was to create a legally licensed structure" for computer use of recorded music, says William Whitmore of SunnComm, which designed the anti-copy technology. In CD players, the disc plays normally. When put into a Macintosh (news - web sites) or Windows PC, the disc installs software to keep the music secure, and an interactive menu pops up with several links, including one to copy some or all of the Windows Media tracks to your hard drive." --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software