I need some help with my music players.  I'm running Windows XP Media
Center Edition on an HP notebook and having problems with both Windows
Media Player 11 and WinAmp Pro 5.52.

Basically, every time I play an mp3 in either WMP or WinAmp I get the
Windows hour glass.  The mp3 then stops playing until the hour glass
goes away.  It happens at different points even on the same song.  It
almost seems like my players are either (1) searching the internet for
album art and song tag information, or (2) making sure that I own the
digital rights to the mp3.  Since it happens with songs that I already
have the album art for, I suspect it's a Microsoft DRM file of some
sort.  

Any suggestions?  I basically can't listen to my mp3 music.

Dumb as a stump

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