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# Why can I play and stream DRM content on my home computer but I can not stream it from my HP Media Vault?

The HP Media Vault includes a media server for streaming iTunes music to PCs running iTunes through the house. See the section in the User's Guide on iTunes.

For Windows Media DRM (WMDRM) content (protected .wma music and .wmv videos), the HP Media Vault does not support streaming of this content to DMAs. Playing (and streaming) of WMDRM protected content requires that the device that is playing the content have a license for the content. When you downloaded the content to your PC, you also received a license to play the content on that PC. If you copy the files to the HP Media Vault, you cannot copy or transfer the license to the server. The server must obtain its own license, and we do not provide for this feature in the current product.

What you can do however, is store your protected content on the HP Media Vault. This allows all of the PCs in the home that have a license for the content to play it from the HP Media Vault by accessing it through the network. For example, to add all of the music on your HP Media Vault to the Windows Media Player library on your PC:

Open Windows Media Player on your PC.

Select File -> Add to Media Library -> Add Folder ….

In the Add Folder dialog, type \\HPMediaVault\Music and click OK.

This will add all of the music files in your Music shared folder on the HP Media Vault to your Windows Media Player library. You will then be able to play all of the protected content for which this PC has a license.

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