ITunes music for non-iTunes players?

hi, i see that this iTunes plus says that you can use the new type of music for other non-iTunes players? Basically I play a video game and that game has it where you can play MP3 files in the game. However it does not support traditional iTunes purchased files because of how they are incoded. Will the new iTunes plus files be able to be played in a regular MP3 player? or be converted so that they can be? buying from iTunes and not able to use the files in other programs besides iTunes is a huge turn off :/

If your player can play 256 kbps bitrate AAC files (which you can find out from the documentation that came with the player) then you will be able to listen to the new iTunes Plus tracks as-is.
If your player can handle AAC tracks but only up to 128 kbps (which is the case with my Blackberry phone, for instance) you can make a copy of the track with a reduced bitrate and listen to that on your player (and use the original higher-bitrate version on your computer or iPod, if you like).
And if your player can only handle mp3 files, you can create a copy in mp3 format that will work just fine.
These conversions to lower bitrate or to mp3 can be done very easily within iTunes.

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Please help! The questions come at the end.
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++ If he does need to authorize the FILE SOURCE, I suppose he would use MY iTUNES account information to do so. Is this correct? Or should he use HIS account information?
++ And if he does use my account info, _will he retain his iTunes account setting for his other iTunes Library_? I.e., He would have a classical music library that's authorized by me (I guess my second computer?), and his regular library with his account information?
This sounds more complicated than it is (maybe it IS more complicated than I think (sic).
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