MSN Music Beta purchases on Pocket PCs work

A bit of the controversy regarding the recent claims that MSN Music store files won't play on PocketPC and Smartphone devicse might be cleared up, just for now anyway. We were able to purchase a song on the MSN Music store,
download it, sync to the Pocket PC through the Windows Media Player, and then play the protected song in both internal memory as well as SD card.

From what we heard (and tested) all content purchased from the MSN Music Beta will run on the internal storage of Pocket PCs and SmartPhones. But, not all devices can play content off the storage cards yet. It all depends on the OEMs drivers and if they properly implemented IOCTL_DISK_GET_STORAGEID.

For our tests, we used a HP IPAQ h4100 series Pocket PC, the latest version of Windows Media 10 and XP SP2. Here are some screenshots, as requested in our comments.

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