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To: pyslent who wrote (68983)	9/21/2007 4:49:08 PM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 213177

>>iTunes itself has a built-in WMA converter; defaults to converting to AAC, but you can convert to the more universally-supported mp3 format as well (if you set the iTunes' default importing format to mp3).<< Pyslent - Cool. I did not know that. - Allen

To: pyslent who wrote (68983)	9/25/2007 6:56:40 PM
From: pyslent	Respond to of 213177

iTunes itself has a built-in WMA converter; Just a follow up-- it was pointed out to me via PM that only the windows version of iTunes has the ability to convert WMA files to AAC or MP3. I assume the reason is that it makes use of the WMA codec built into Windows, but not in Macs. But it looks like Keith avoided the problem altogether by ripping to MP3 instead of WMA. Good thing-- MP3 is really the most interoperable codec, and today's announcement of Amazon's MP3 store should finally give customers what they want. I've never paid for digital music in any form other than MP3, and this seems to expand the selection available to me tremendously.