The iPod Nano's video limitation is harshing my groove

It's a well established fact that iPod nano doesn't play videos. Fine. However, there are songs on iTunes that come in video format only. Examples the non-live version of "Dakota" by Stereophonics, "You Were The Last High" by the Dandy Warhols. I bought the video versions for both of these because I really like the songs. And I wound up paying 2x the price for these, though I could care less about the video.
Apple needs a solution for playing the audio content of video files on non video iPods. I don't care if it means extracting the audio only for now. I want to be able to play the music I payed for on my iPod.

It probably would not be in Apple's best interest
(from a business/legal standpoint) to make it a
straight forward process (such as a click in iTunes)
to exctract only the adio.
I guess I hadn't thought through the legal rammifications but what I'm asking for seems straight forward (at least to me). Apple is in full control of the iTunes/iPod interface. When you attempt to drag a video to the iPod nano, they could prompt you with a dialog that asks if you want the audio only, and then just download that. They wouldn't have to make the audio content available as a separate file that could be copied illegally.
The other point I hope to make is that I truly beleive this feature would make the iPod nano a better and more versatile product. I thought part of reason for this forum was to suggest improvements, but if this is just a support forum, I may be a little out of line. Oh well
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