DISQUS

Regarding the firewall still letting MM6/6.1 and Acoustica still connect to Internet, I read someplace on here in one of the other tips that it is actually the browser (Internet Explorer/Firefox - whatever your default is as I recall) that is connecting to the net. They suggested that you install two browsers and set one as the default and block access to that browser in your firewall and use other one for actual websurfing. Only prob. I see with that is that any links in email or docs you click on will launch default browser and be blocked.

Great. glad you got it to work.

Not sure what's up with the firewall (what program did you block by the way - MM6.1?). I've only converted one file yesterday as an educational test to see if it could be done and it worked. If I try again I will just unplug cable from router so there's no Internet connection.

Regarding the MMZ file. After doing the other steps as outlined in the original post (i.e. install 6.0, move wma.inp file, uninstall 6.0, install 6.1 and replace wma.inp file in 6.1 folder with old one from 6.0). Then download the MMZ file to the desktop and click on it. Just clicking on it and it installs/changes/does whatever to make the conversion process speedier.

This worked great up until today (April 17, 2005), but no longer works, even with old files that it previously worked with that I bought from MusicMatch. Looks like Media Player updated codex or something - dunno. Too bad, it worked well fast and accurately when it worked.