Can music downloaded from iTunes be played on a zune?
“Actually, no matter what computer you use, you can’t download music you bought at the iTunes Music Store to a non-iTunes player. Music you download from the iTunes Store is protected by the Apple DRM (digital rights management) format, which is a proprietary, protected AAC file format that Apple doesn’t license to anybody. To play iTunes Music Store files on a portable player besides an iPod, you have to first burn them to a CD as MP3 files. The DRM encoding doesn’t make it to the CD. You then rip the now-unprotected files back into your iTunes library and download them to the player. MP3 is the standard for digital audio. An MP3 music track can be played on almost ANY player, whether it’s portable or computer-based. But Apple’s iTunes software doesn’t create MP3 files when you buy a song. The files are “protected” and cannot be played on a computer which does not have the iTunes software. When a track won’t play on your MP3 player, NoteBurner comes to the rescue! … Just import prot
