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Is Apple's iTunes service nirvana for music fans -- or just the start of a file-format nightmare that will drive us all nuts?

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By Andrew Leonard

'Now I have all this music that iTunes won't play, and a bunch of songs purchased from iTunes that the Media Player won't play. So, at the moment, I am prevented from burning a CD that has songs from both libraries. There are converters available that will transform WMA files into AACs and eventually there will no doubt be converters that perform the reverse service, but the process is a hassle that may end up downgrading the overall sound quality. I would have been far better off if I had ripped all my CDs to MP3s to begin with, because iTunes and the iPod will play MP3s. (And even, better, the iTunes software will allow me to rip my CDs into MP3s.) '
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http://archive.salon.com/tech/col/leon/2003/10/28/itunes/index1.html