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Apple faces Norwegian heat
NORWAY is miffed with Apple, as the country expects services like Itunes to be able to download tracks to any music-playing device, not just the Ispod.
And yesterday, Consumer Ombudsman Bjoern Erik Thon said he would begin to bring formal charges against the toy-making outfit.
"Itunes has shown a lacking will to comply with our demand and we are now preparing to try this case in the Market Council," Thon said in a statement.
Apple had until November 3rd to open up Itunes to other music players.
The outfit murmured a bit about burning songs to CD and converting them to MP3s but the ombudsman isn't satisfied.
Since Apple is "unwilling to make changes to make music in the Itunes Store available to all music players," according to the Market Council, it's gonna get spanked. ยต
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Let's sue nintendo cause I can't play theo games on playststion and sue microsoft cause I need a different version of Office for my Mac. 
I can't put my canon lithium battery in my nikon lithium battery slot.
Oh, and when I buy a book of won't work as an audio tape. 
My hotwheels won't fit on a competitors track. 

I'll stop. But I have more. 
If you don't like that apple is like this than use one of the dozens of competitors. That's how things work.
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/SoundCodecs#Current_status

I can't use itunes with my x5 or sansa even though my player supports aac.

It's because apple doesn't want any other player than their ipods, of course, to be sold.

That's the problem.

(Yes, rockbox supports ipods to, so in theory i could use an ipod sync it with itunes and then let rockbox sift through the obfuscated files to build it's own database but why? When there is superior hardware out there - wich supports replacing batteries when they wear out)
iTunes uses AAC. Just drop the proprietary un"Fairplay" extensions that (it is claimed) harm competition among audio players.

I've yet to see a non-Apple audio player that supports AACs at all, never mind chapterized AACs. If they build 'em, I'll consider 'em. Until then, the other manufacturers can stop whining.

Why would anyone want to stop using AAC when it deals with audiobooks, live music, and classical music so admirably? I'm talking about chapterized AACs, which only Apple can be bothered to support.

Let's take an example: Eine kleine Nachtmusik consists of four movements. They belong together. It *might* suit some people to play the movements separately, but I prefer them played in order. Now, stuff it in a randomized or shuffled playlist. How am I going to hear the whole piece played as intended if I don't encode it as a chapterized AAC? Fine, I could encode it as a single huge file, but then I'd lose information about the movements. Why does the Norwegian government think would I want this?
because transcoding doesn't diminsh sound quality at all, right?