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Apple iTunes

Proprietary format - Just won't play on every device

a techie

MAR

2008

My daughter called on Christmas day since she and her nephews that she nannies had received MP3 players for Christmas. They had also received iTunes Gift cards which is nice to have to download songs they like.

The problem my daughter was experiencing was in order to use the gift card they had to install iTunes.

iTunes is produced by Apple and like Microsoft seems to belive they are the only format on th planet.

The default format that the songs wants to download into is M4P a proprietary format that only works in iTunes or on an iPod.

So that she did not have to purchase an expensive format converter,... review »