[progrock]

Only when they experience the problem first hand!

My brother is a novice computer user, he ripped all his CDs into his music library through windows media player as WMA files. I tried explaining that he'd be better off with a 'free' format, but he didn't care, or rather hadn't the need to care.

Later he acquired an iPod. Then he was totally baffled as to why he couldn't play his WMA files on his iPod. Anyway he went on to transcode using iTunes all his WMA files to probably M4a files. And has no idea that he has potentially thrown some data down the drain in the process.

I'd like to see his face if he then bought a device that couldn't play M4a, but WMA files!

Oh for the glory days of picking up a CD and your ghetto blaster and moving it from room to room.