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2009-03-02 09:26:02

h4hagen: Whats my age again?; +91|6616|Troy, New York

Sorry, I realize this is covered all over the place in these forums.
at any rate, can I play songs bought on iTunes on a non iPod?
Alternatively, if I "upgraded" to itunes plus (which apparently removes DRM from the music) Could I use it on the player?
The reason I ask is my brother dropped my iPod in a glass of soda (its sitting in rice atm) so if It doesn't work Im going to get a new player (probably the creative Zen X-Fi) But I have a lot of music bought on iTunes.
Thanks in advance, +1 for good answers.

2009-03-02 09:28:56

Noobeater: Northern numpty; +194|6711|Boulder, CO

It'll work so long as it can play the format, a creative zune definately should play it.

2009-03-02 09:30:35

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6717|The Twilight Zone

http://tech.yahoo.com/blog/hughes/487;_ … syimExLpA5
this is an old post so things may have changed. The best thing to do would be to ask a friend to lend you an mp3 player and then try playing Itunes-bought music there.

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2009-03-02 09:38:11

Pochsy: Artifice of Eternity; +702|5807|Toronto

So long as the track does not have DRM protection you should be able to convert the files and put them on anything you'd like. There are some programs (I can't think of one off the top of my head) that have come up with ways to get around this, but from what I gather they are fairly unreliable. Oh if you are using Itunes Plus there is no DRM, the old basic itunes does have DRM. Check which you have.

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2009-03-02 15:07:36

zeidmaan: Member; +234|6678|Vienna

Does Apple charge any money for removing DRM from the songs you purchased?

2009-03-02 15:21:18

h4hagen: Whats my age again?; +91|6616|Troy, New York

Yes, they do. Not a lot, but they do (dont know the exact price off the top of my head).

2009-03-02 15:29:24

JoshP: Banned; +176|5953|Notts, UK

oh lawds

listen up

1) Search for a program called doubletwist. It transcodes all your purchased protected music into non-protected MP3. Basically it makes a copy of your purchased songs, but one without any DRM, so you can play the copied file on anything. This is free, I have used it, and it works.

2) Pay apple about £0.30 per track to upgrade to iTunes plus. If you care about the quality of your music, this is a better option. However, it will obviously be rather pricey.

3) Don't do either, however protected songs that you purchased from iTunes (add the "Kind" column in iTunes, this will tell you whether it is either protected (it has DRM) or purchased (no drm)) will not be playable on your non-iPod music device. The rest of your music will be supported by the device, provided your device supports the codec that it is in. All players support MP3, not as many support AAC or WMA. Research this or you may have to transcode large amounts of music - which is bad.

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