One workaround you can use is burn your music to a CD, rip it from the CD,
and then encode it in a format that the SB can handle -- mp3 or FLAC.  The
downside of using mp3 in this case is that you're losing data twice --
iTunes throws away some data when they encode it (unless it's Apple
lossless), and then you throw more away when you go to mp3.

I try to avoid iTunes whenever I can.  Occasionally they have something
available exclusively that I want.  In those cases, I get it, burn it to a
CD, rip it to WAV, and then encode it as FLAC.

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Dave Dewey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Quoting Kudahl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> >
> > Hey.
> >
> > I have a problem, my wife have bouhgt some songs on the internet, both
> > from Itunes and Cdon.com (WMA), but we cant play it over the S.B. It
> > wont come on if we update the Music folder, and if we use the Itune
> > Plugin, it wont play, its just say Error, Unknow file.
> > It cant be right, that i buy legal music and cant play it.
> > What to do?
>
> It's a Digital Rights Management (DRM) restriction placed on the
> music you purchased by Apple/iTunes.  It won't play through the SB.
> You should only purchase DRM-free music in general - places like
> Amazon's music store and Emusic don't burden their product with DRM
> and are thus universally playable.
>
> This isn't a SlimDevices issue, really.  Apple won't license their
> FairPlay DRM technology to anyone, so SlimDevices is powerless to
> support music from iTunes.  I don't know anything about Cdon.com, it
> may or may not be the same sort of situation.
>
> dd
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