Re: Playing Itunes with WMP

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I can't say I blame you really, sounds like you had a bad experience.

At least now you know your files as MP3s will play on all of :

WMP
iTunes
Real Player
Quicktime
MP3 portable player
iPod / Shuffle / etc

Which is of course what you want, in the end - choice of what to do
with YOUR music - with no artificial DRM encumberances.

Cheers - Neil

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 07:02:37 GMT, "P Renfree" <prenfree@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Neil
>
>I've given up and just download from sites that are in a format (mp3) that I
>can play using WMP.
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>Paul
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>"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:c0q7r1155s5cerv95i8hcviju0h0bj5lsg@xxxxxxxxxx
>> On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 21:50:20 GMT, "P Renfree" <prenfree@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Is it possible to play downloaded itunes with Windows Media Player?
>>
>> Apple iTunes audio is compressed using the AAC codec. To play those
>> files, WMP would need a "directshow AAC codec". Luckily, there is one
>>
>> http://coreaac.corecodec.org/
>>
>> However, almost all files fomr the iTunes store also have DRM (digital
>> rights management) applied to prevent them being copied or played in
>> anything not Apple sanctioned.
>>
>> The specifcation for the Apple DRM has not been released, so there are
>> no (to my knowledge) ways to "unlock" any DRM content from the Apple
>> store to be played on other than iTunes or iPods.
>>
>>>tried using the latest Quicktime Player supplied by Apple but all of the
>>>songs are distorted using Quicktime.
>>
>> Shoudn't be - can you explain more about this distortion effect >?
>>
>> Cheers - Neil
>>
>

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