Will Rockbox be able to play songs Ive bought from on-line music stores?
Not if they are DRM-encrypted. Firstly, this would be extremely difficult to implement legally – Rockbox is not legal entity as such, and therefore is unable to enter into license agreements with providers of DRM technology. Secondly, Rockbox is open source, which would mean that any DRM technology we incorporated into our codebase would suddenly become visible to the whole world, completely defeating its purpose. Remember, DRM achieves part of it’s security through obscurity, and publishing the keys necessary to decrypt DRM crippled media would essentially render it useless. And finally, the members of the Rockbox community don’t like DRM, and we see no reason to encourage its use by allowing our firmware to read it. The Rockbox developers and community will not assist in removing DRM or in using the resulting files – please do not ask. If you choose to do this you are on your own. If however, your music was from the iTunes music store, you can upgrade to a DRM-free higher quality fil
