ITunes app or player

[Chris]

Do we happen to have a port that can make use of ITunes? Moreover - the files 
you  purchase from them. I think the file extension is m4p.
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Re: ITunes app or player

[BSD baby]

 Do we happen to have a port that can make use of ITunes? Moreover - the files 
 you  purchase from them. I think the file extension is m4p.

They're locked Digital Rights Management-controlled AAC files.

Unfortunately you can only play them in real Apple iTunes player or transfer them to 
an iPod.

LUCKILY : as with ALL of the download services (most of which use Windows Media 
format),
you can just click the {BURN TO CD} button, and burn an audio CD,  then pop it in 
your
FreeBSD machine and rip it to FLAC or MP3 or OGG or whatever you want.


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Re: ITunes app or player

[BSD baby]

  LUCKILY : as with ALL of the download services (most of which use Windows
  Media format), you can just click the {BURN TO CD} button, and burn an
  audio CD,  then pop it in your FreeBSD machine and rip it to FLAC or MP3 or
  OGG or whatever you want.
 
 As true as the above may be, and as lazy as I can be - I was hoping for a more 
 logical (for lack of a better term) way of playing them. Perhaps I was 
 looking for a app that might play them in their native format.


Yeah.  Shit outta luck, though.

My company is one of the main ones actually delivering and encoding all the 
audio to Apple iTunes.   We use all FreeBSD machines for storage, but have
to use actual Apple iTunes software for encoding and listening.

There's no other way.  I've tried.

Hey if you don't know the FLAC audio format, you should.  Especially for
trans-coding other audio formats (like iTunes from CD-Rom) onto your FreeBSD
machine.

cd /usr/ports/audio/flac ; make install

It's a *lossless* copy of the audio.  No compressions.  Huge files but sounds great.

You can use a program like this...
cd /usr/ports/audio/abcde ; make install

... to rip your audio CDs into FLAC format.

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