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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
Interesting question. Actually, I don't know either. But, I know that I have never had a problem playing my WMA music on any device I have owned, including cars, receivers, CD and DVD players, Android devices, etc. But, IPhones will not play a WMA music file. Also, I think that, when Apple started selling music online, they wanted to restrict their AAC music files to only play on Apple devices, but they have loosened up that restriction.
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This is not a unique situation with Apple. They often let 3rd party apps fill in jobs like this. It makes sense, then they are not liable to maintain it, and yet, people can still do what they want with the help of a 3rd party app. In fact, they have gotten in trouble (yelled at) in the past when Apple provided solutions they competed with their own developer's apps.
I know that doesn't help you, but you are not an Apple customer, and Apple focuses on its own customers and developers.
I will look a little further to see if I can solve your problem. It will be pretty easy to create a console script that copies all the files into a single folder if that would help. I haven't done Windows scripting in ages, but I will look into it, maybe I can find an App to do it.
EDIT: I did some searching and I found a few threads in the MediaMonkey user forum with users chatting about doing what you want to do. It appears MediaMonkey can convert files in nested subfolders. You may need to select folder trees that only hold a few hundred files at a time to do the conversion - from a time point and memory point of view. But, in one conversation the user converted 500 files in a nested tree structure.
There may be an issue, it appears MM puts all the converted files into a single output folder. So, you may want to covert all of a genre into a folder then another genre into another, or something like that. But, it sounds like it will do what you want. And it is free - so, can't hurt to try it.