Re: I want to switch from iTunes - but it won't let me!

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On 4/10/06 12:36, in article
4A89EDA8-C633-44F1-A2E1-E1EED8EE21E6@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Marc"
<Marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Been using iTunes since version 1 for the Mac, and with version 7 apple have
made a ***-up and it's now dire.

So what a great time for Microsoft to be releasing version 11 of windows
media player. Last time I used this, it came with Windows 95 and played
Bathoevn MIDI files. I installed it on my PC last night.

Anyway, I'd like to switch but it seems Micorsoft have not included support
for AAC files. I can get them to play with the correct codec, but they don't
show up in the libary (which is of course, WMP's main selling point for many
people, after all there's no shortage of applications that will simply play a
file back).

Is this an oversight on my part, or has it actually not been considdered
that people may want to switch from the main rival over to WMP11?

If someone can enlighten me, or maybe someone from Microsoft could suggest
this as a feature to be added, as for me the current solution looks like
Winamp :-(

Microsoft absolutely hates industry standard file formats which they can't
control (e.g. AAC).

Note: Contrary to what some people think AAC is _NOT_ an Apple format it is
an official international standard controlled by the MPEG body. Fairplay is
Apple's DRM scheme and is proprietary but so is Microsoft's PlayForSure DRM.
(PlayForSure is as much a misnomer as Plug&Play for Windows is.)

You have done the most difficult part in getting AAC to play in WMP, all you
now need to do is to add a plugin to let WMP read the meta tags in AAC
files. I use WMPTSE to do this with WMP 10.

Note: While WMPTSE works fine with WMP 10 it has not yet been officially
tested with or is officially supported for use with WMP 11.

PS. You are aware that iTunes 7.0.1 has now been released? It works fine for
me with Windows XP Pro.

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