ITunes m4a to wma--- is that controversy truly good for apple?

Seems to *this (20-year+ Mac) user that iTunes software's refusal to export to wma is counter-productive and off-putting.
My daughter was given an mp3 player other than iPod (Rave) and cannot use the music she has already purchased on my iMac in iTunes?
Absurd... confiscatory. This does not serve Apple well.
Sign me,
"PO-d but willing to be convinced"

There's no reason to even want to convert anything to WMA. Any portable player that can play WMA files can also play MP3 files. Unlike WMA, which is a proprietary Microsoft format, MP3 is an "open" standard that virtually anyone can incorporate into their products. AAC's licensing arrangement is slightly more cumbersome than that for MP3s, but it too is sufficiently "open" that it is fairly easy for a third party to incorporate AAC encoders/decoders into their products. With the exception of the Apple Lossless format, Apple so far has taken a stance in favor of open formats, while Microsoft continues to try to rule a "closed" marketplace (Setting Windows Media Player to rip to protected WMA by default being just one example).

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+What was an unpleasant surprise was that the selections with identified band leaders separated off from the anonymous group and from one another, based just on the names of these band leaders+.
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