Automatic WMA to AAC conversion

1999–2004April 29, 2004Macs Only!Mac OS
, enabling Windows users to automatically create iTunes versions of their songs encoded in unprotected WMA. Converting an entire music library into iTunes and syncing it onto iPod™ is now a snap.

The only "downgrade" is:

Honoring Apple’s commitment to discourage music theft while preserving fair personal use rights, the number of times a user can burn the same playlist onto CDs with iTunes is being reduced from ten burns to seven. Users can still burn a single song an unlimited number of times and listen to their music on an unlimited number of iPods.

Apple's iTunes Music Store provided 70 million song downloads in its first year and the download rate is now at an annual level of 140 million songs. iTMS now has 700,000 songs from the five major music distributors and 450 independents. Here is the full Apple press release.

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