Personally, I am sick of the closed off music formats. Play them here, but not elsewhere. When does it all end? I say to heck with it and feel like just going with OGG or FLAC formats at this point.

After going through hoops to get my music from iTunes into my Media Center UI it got me thinking about music formats. When I started with my iPod, I chose M4A because it enabled me to save space on my iPod. iTunes now has a facility to transcode songs down to a smaller size when it syncs to save space. Media Player can also do that which is important for my Samsung YH-999 Portable Media Center (http://product.samsung.com/cgi-bin/nabc/product/b2c_product_detail.jsp?eUser=&prod_id=YH-999GS%2fXAA). [Read the rest]