Posted by Dave Martindale on 10/18/05 22:14

"AnthonyR" <nomail@nospam.com> writes:

>> You might as well ask why all ipods do not play WMA audio files. To do
>> so would certainly benefit consumers, but it would also help one of
>> Apple's rivals.

>Well if the wma files are NOT encrypted iTunes easily allows you to convert
>them to something that will play on iTunes and iPod.

Yes, but:
1) I have no reason to install or run iTunes otherwise (so I'd use
something else to do the conversion)
2) MP3 files are about 50% larger than WMA for similar sound quality,
so I'd get only 2/3 as much on any given size player, and my
archive would take 50% more space

>But encrypted files between the too rival companies, ex. apple's protected
>songs and microsofts protected content, I believe isn't legal
>to unprotect by anyone and can only be played for the system and software it
>was designed for.

No problem for me; I have no encrypted content.

>Personally I rip all my cd's directly to mp3 format in iTunes, change in
>preference is all that is needed.

But don't you pay a price in space, compared to Apple's own compressed
format?

Dave

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