Re: iTunes 7


Snit wrote:
"Edwin" <thorne25@xxxxxxxx> stated in post
u4lOg.2472$7I1.2041@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 9/14/06 3:54 PM:

Snit wrote:
"Donald L McDaniel" <orthocross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
oi2jg2d8b3cbhd4389vj1pl1a3eumjn81u@xxxxxxx on 9/14/06 10:10 AM:

Can't play them using Microsoft Digital Rights management, of course.
And Apple won't release "PlayFair, now, Apple" for Windows.
You can play Apple media on Windows.
Zat so? Then why won't Windows Media Player import iTunes protected
files?

Why change the topic to *that*? You *can* play Apple media on Windows...
with a free player even.

Hell, man, why won't WMP import ANY Apple meda? Could it be that Microsoft
doesn't want to pay the license fees for "Play fair, now Apple"? (or the
other
way around, for that matter. I can't play my Windows media files (protected
or otherwise) because Apple refuses to allow Microsoft Digital Rights in OS
X.)

Your double standard is funny.

Apple has protection. They provide a player, for free, for Windows users.

MS has protection. They do not provide a player, at any price, for Mac
users.

You vilify Apple.

Do you see the humor in that?

Why did you insert this text:

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I could play my Apple media in iTunes for Windows, if it were WORKING
(maybe, since Apple changed the format of its media when they released
iTunes 7). However, iTunes 7 screws up my sound something fierce, as I've
said three times, now. I could reinstall iTunes 6.0.5, but iTunes has gone
and CHANGED the format of its files on the iTunes store, and they are
UNPLAYABLE in anything but iTunes 7.

Your anger does not change the above facts.
**********************************************************************
Why did you insert the above text?



You're wrong, as always.

Then why did you post a link in support of what I said?

My link does not support what you said:

"They do not provide a player, at any price, for Mac users."

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/otherproducts/otherproducts.aspx?pid=windowsmedia

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Microsoft will continue to offer Windows Media Player 9 as a free download
for Macintosh users, but has no plans to provide future updates or product
support for Windows Media Player for Mac.
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The next paragraph:

"As an alternative, Microsoft has teamed up with Telestream to make its
popular Flip4Mac program available to Macintosh users. Flip4Mac
provides Windows Media video and audio playback in the QuickTime Player
for Mac OS X. "

So, technically, yes - MS does have *a* player for the Mac...

So you're wrong, as always.

but, no, it
does not handle the current DRM from MS.

"Microsoft will continue to offer Windows Media Player 9 as a free
download for Macintosh users..."

Third party has stepped in... and, it is good to see, MS is supportive of
that.

A third party has not "stepped in," MS has partnered with a third
party.

[toilet flush of Snit's remaining crap]

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