TVSquad

If you've got a TiVo Series2 box hooked up to your home network, you can play music from your computer's iTunes library on your TiVo -- and by music, I mean MP3 files or unprotected AAC files.

Now that Apple has begun selling unencrypted music from EMI, you'd think you could stream those files to your TiVo too. After all, they're designed to play on pretty much any portable media player that has AAC support.

But if you try to play the unencrypted AAC files purchased through iTunes plus through TiVo Desktop you'll get a "rejected song because song: format purchased AAC audio file not mp3 or convertible to mp3."

Since the tracks are DRM-free, you can convert them to MP3 or reencode them as unencrypted AAC files and TiVo will play them. But then you lose out on one of the selling points of iTunes plus files: higher quality. Any time you convert a file from one compressed format to another you're kind of butchering the sound quality. Hopefully TiVo or some hacker with too much free time on his or her hands will come along and offer a fix soon.