![]() iTunes music tracks are proprietary and cannot be played on a computer which does not have the iTunes software. But Apple's iTunes software doesn't give you MP3 files when you buy a song. ![]() You can burn MP3s to a CD and they'll play just fine on almost any modern CD player. An MP3 music track can be played on almost ANY player, whether it's portable or computer-based. But DRM often restricts the consumer from doing perfectly valid and reasonable things with music they own, like making a backup copy, burning a CD, or converting to another audio format. DRM (Digital Rights Management) was created by the entertainment industry so they could control the duplication and dissemination of their content. Prior to April 2009, the iTunes tracks that you purchased were in a "DRM protected" AAC audio format. MP3 has been an open standard for many years, but it's not always simple to convert iTunes music tracks to MP3 format. ![]() you paid for those songs and now you can't play them outside of the iTunes environment, on hardware not supported by Apple, or on operating systems not supported by iTunes. ![]()
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