creative playcenter is a revolutionary audio cd and digital audio (such as mp3 or wma) player. besides managing your favorite digital audio files on your computer, it is also an integrated mp3/wma encoder for ripping audio cd tracks into compressed digital audio files. it can encode tracks many times faster than normal play speed and up to 320 kbps (for mp3).

    for more information and usage details on creative playcenter, refer to its online help.

    audio files that are secured through microsoft’s digital rights management (drm) technology can only be played back on an ms drm supported audio player such as creative playcenter. for security against unauthorized duplication, microsoft has advised the disabling of any digital or spdif output from the audio card. during playback of the protected files, sound blaster audigy will disable its digital output including the spdif output from the audigy drive.