I have recently brought a media centre that conects to my VISTA WMP 11 ...thing is all my music is on iTunes and the WMP11 will not import them ....then I ripped a CD on to WMP11 to try it ...and it worked but the music has since disapeared from the WMP ..this one has me foxed...
Can anyone steer me in the right direction?
itunes gives alot of people issues.
All the songs are protected with DRM, and the format cannot be read by media player.
Prior to January of this year [2009] most all of the songs downloaded from iTunes contained digital rights management (DRM) coding which prevented you from being able to play songs downloaded from iTunes in other media applications or devices. Now, all iTunes music comes as unprotected AAC files.
i.e., any songs you purchased before January 2009 are DRM protected and will not play in Media player.
As for the ripped music disapearing, there could be many reasons- did you rip as MP3? A system Restore, a User error (deleted from drive-which default for media player is to also delete from Library), etc.
Playing iTunes music in Windows Media Player
http://blogs.chron.com/helpline/archives/2009/04/palying_itunes_1.html
Q. I'm trying to do the right thing and stop stealing music on line. I have an account with iTunes and love to download music that I pay for rather than trade. But I would like to be able to play the songs I get there in Windows Media Player, and it won't recognize the file type, which is AAC. How can I get around this?
A. I would like to commend you on taking the steps toward acquiring your music online legally and legitimately. You are doing the right thing and I applaud you.
One solution is to download and install the free AAC/aacPlus Windows Media Player plugin from Orban/Coding Technologies. You can download this from
www.orban.com/plugin.
Once installed you can play all of your AAC songs files in Windows Media Player.
Keep in mind that this plugin will only work with non-protected AAC files.
Prior to January of this year most all of the songs downloaded from iTunes contained digital rights management (DRM) coding which prevented you from being able to play songs downloaded from iTunes in other media applications or devices. Now, all iTunes music comes as unprotected AAC files.
If you have the older, protected files you'll still need to burn them to CD and then rip them to MP3 files to be able to play in Windows Media Player or use some kind of third-party application to remove the DRM protection.
