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How does one get an iTunes download to appear in their Windows Media Player Library?

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How does one get an iTunes download to appear in their Windows Media Player Library?

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If you bought an iTunes Plus track, it should work in Windows Media Player as well as any Digital Music Player that supports AAC files. If you bought a regular iTunes track, it has Digital Rights Management on it that locks it into either being played in iTunes, or on an iPod. The only way to get around this is to burn the song to a CD, then re-import it back into iTunes or Windows Media Player, which will remove the DRM. Since you have not been able to get it to play in WMP, it probably is a track with DRM on it. You can thank the greedy record labels for the wonderful DRM feature, Apple would love to sell music without them, but the record labels want DRM on most tracks. If you bought a song from Napster, Microsoft’s Zune Marketplace, etc they also use DRM and are locked into only certain software and certain music players. Amazon is one of the only music stores out there selling completely DRM free music, which can be played on an iPod, a Zune, or any other device, plus can be playe

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