*CobraA1 tries to open an unprotected AAC file with Windows Media Player.*
*CobraA1 succeeds!*
Media player threw some warnings at me about it, but I told it to ignore them, and surprise surprise - Windows Media Player can, in fact, play unprotected AAC files. You may need to have the right codecs installed, but it's included in several common video codecs that most people already have.
In addition, I invite you to go to your local store at the various music players available - a surprising number of them can in fact play unprotected AAC files as well.
I dunno if you know this - but the AAC format was designed by the same people who designed MP3, and is intended as an eventual replacement of MP3. It's included as part of the MPEG 2 & 4 video formats, so if you can play either of those video formats it's very likely you can play AAC.
You'd be surprised how common it really is! For the most part, most people simply don't realize they can use it.
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