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More => Old Versions => Media Center 15 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: chaznet on July 12, 2010, 11:16:19 pm

Title: MediaCenter 15 & iTunes
Post by: chaznet on July 12, 2010, 11:16:19 pm
I have an iPhone that I sync with iTunes.  I 'upgraded' to the iPhone 4 and wound up returning it.  My 3GS is fine, but would like to maybe add an Android device to my toy chest.  I noticed the current version plays .m4a music I purchased from iTunes, for some reason I thought that wouldn't be possible.  Does this mean I can use MC15 to sync my Apple protected tracks to an Android device?
Title: Re: MediaCenter 15 & iTunes
Post by: sunfire7 on July 12, 2010, 11:59:30 pm
If your files were purchased in the old time of 128 kbits with DRM, then I think (not sure) you can only play them on itunes and apple devices :). But, since long time ago all itunes store purchases are "itunes plus" wich means they have 256kbits and are DRM-free, in this case you can play them in MC and sync to any device supported by it :)
Title: Re: MediaCenter 15 & iTunes
Post by: chaznet on July 13, 2010, 12:02:17 am
That's great news!
Title: Re: MediaCenter 15 & iTunes
Post by: kewe65 on July 14, 2010, 12:17:23 pm
i've never had problems playing back even the DRM files i had purchased so long as quicktime was installed, which is installed by default with iTunes.  i have not tried it with MC15 as i've converted all of those files to an MPx format and stopped purchasing lossy music altogether, but i dont see why it wouldn't still work if you have iTunes installed.
Title: Re: MediaCenter 15 & iTunes
Post by: chaznet on July 14, 2010, 03:29:23 pm
As I mentioned, I was interested in whether I could use MC to copy protected files to an Android device, I recall not being able to do this with Windows Mobile and MC.  Thanks though.
Title: Re: MediaCenter 15 & iTunes
Post by: zxsix on July 14, 2010, 04:21:16 pm
You may not be able to use the M4A's on the android, but MC can convert them on the fly to mp3 at sync time.
Title: Re: MediaCenter 15 & iTunes
Post by: chaznet on July 15, 2010, 01:54:19 am
It won't convert protected files.  Thanks for your interest though -- maybe you wanna type stuff you know for sure?