Sonos plays tracks from iTunes Plus
by Volker Weber
Lukas asked me the other day about Sonos and the tracks he purchased from the iTunes store. My answer was twofold:
- If you purchase iTunes Plus tracks without DRM, then Sonos will play them just nicely. It does not matter that they are 256 kb/s AAC instead of MP3. As you can see in the specs, Sonos plays MP3, WMA, AAC (MPEG 4), Ogg Vorbis, Audible (Format 4), Apple Lossless, Flac (Lossless) as well as uncompressed WAV and AIFF.
- You have to rid the iTunes tracks you already purchased from the crippling DRM that makes them unusable. There are two ways to do that. Either you can upgrade them to iTunes Plus, which is currently only possible with the EMI repertoire. Or you burn them to CD and rip them back in.
Here is proof that the track above playing on Sonos is indeed an iTunes Plus track:
Repeat after me: DRM is bad for the customer.
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