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If you have WMA files and you wish to keep them WMA files you are SOL if you buy an Ipod.

That sentence, with the qualifier, is true. But it is not what you said in the first place.

How about I attribute that to lazy typing, and you attribute the Compaq reverse-engineering comment to lazy typing, and we drop both.

That sentence, with the qualifier, is true. But it is not what you said in the first place.

I said if you have WMA files you are SOL with the Ipod. It is true. The Ipod DOES NOT PLAY WMA FILES

For your position to be true you must add a major qualifier

If you have WMA files and you don't mind converting them to another format, then you are not SOL.

I feel like I am trying to debate with a child.

I will type slowly for you:

The Ipod does not support the WMA format.

You can not listen to WMA format files on an IPOD.

If you have WMA files you are SOL if you buy an Ipod because the Ipod WILL NOT PLAY WMA FILES

Now if you want to convert your files to Apple's format, the Ipod will play them although the conversion will degrade the file and once your convert them you will no longer have any WMA files.

I can sum your position up this way: The Ipod supports WMA files are long as they are AAC files.

This debate has reached the absolute absurd phase - it is well pasted its freshness date.

Remember, based antiRepublicrat's logic:

all your BETA tapes are supported by VHS VCR's - just as long as you convert them to the VHS format

And

all your WMA files are supported by the Ipod - just as long as you convert them to the AAC format.