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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sephiroth no Miko" data-source="post: 1826577" data-attributes="member: 4796">Ehr, but I beg to differ. You can add mp3s into your iTunes library without changing format. You can also use iTunes to rip CDs tracks into mp3s-- it doesn't have to be aac files. In any case, any CD tracks you do rip into aac format still do not have any DRM built into them (i.e., restrictions on copying and burning them). Only tracks downloaded from the iTMS have those. That was what I meant about the protected aac files. Aac files are not Apple proprietary actually; they're part of the mpeg-4 standard developed by a bunch of companies. But since Apple is the only company that uses them, people have come to associate them with Apple.I know mp3s are not a proprietary format; that wasn't what I said, though perhaps my delivery was poor. The proprietary format I was referring to for the other online music stores is wmv files, which is indeed developed by Microsoft. I should have mentioned the wmv format by name, instead of referring to it obliquely.iTunes is not a translation program to convert mp3s into Apple's own format (though it can do that). I don't know where you got that idea, but iTunes is perfectly capable of playing mp3s. Most of my collection is in mp3 format and I use the program to rip mp3s as well (under the program's importing preferences, all you have to do is select the mp3 encoder instead of the aac encoder, which is on by default).If anyone wants to learn about the aac format, here's a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding" target="_blank">link to its wikipedia entry</a> to get you started.</blockquote>

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