One Decade

I had a sudden urge to listen Wu Bai on my laptop so i plucked in all his songs on my computer (3 different albums) onto my Windows Media Player.

Then it appeared in small boxes as titles of all the songs.

So i launched my chinese software - such that i can read the title. But i figured that's not the way to go. And if i burned them onto a CD - i'll eventually have to convert all the names into Hanyu Pinyin anyway.

So i started with ONE album. Then i figured i might as well do all three.

Then it went on to my other chinese albums. Well - i've only got two chinese artistes' albums on my laptop.

If you know the answer - congratulations - our friendship has hit a record 10 years.

Yes Faye Wong.

I've got heaps of her albums - from Tian Kong to Jiang Ai. i do not keep up with the latest anymore. But i've only got about 6 or 7 of the albums on my laptop.

So i started editing all the names to chinese hanyu pinyin - on the blooody file itself - and on the tag editor in windows media player.

You see - here is my point.

We all know that CDs nowadays have that "CONTENT PROTECTED" warning - such as Coldplay's X&Y, The Thrills' So Much For The City, The Vines' Winning Days etc. And pardon me if im the only idiot around - i thought this technology of protecting the contents of the CD only existed in recent years - say in the last 2 or 3 years??

BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I realised it isnt.

Faye Wong's Chang(4) You(2) album was content protected. Chang You also had a concert version which i owned as well, was content protected as well.

I only realised it today.

After how many years? Almost 10 years.

No wonder when i burned it as a mp3 file and played it on my new CD player in the Corolla in Singapore - it couldnt play and i keep burning and burning and it just wont play.

I had NO IDEA. Until today.

That it was copy protected. Windows Media Player launched a webpage for me to download a license. There is a limited number of licenses allowed for each CD i think.

Looking back - those CDs go all the way back to ten years back.

Friends of mine during that period knew im a huge Faye Wong fan.

Friends of mine during this period knew im a huge Coldplay fan.

The songs bring back lots of memories. :D


And i still cant get over the fact that i took ten bloody years to know that Content Protected CD technology existed way before i knew it.