I have 10000s of downloads from Nokia's Comes With Music / Ovi Music Unlimited. Ignoring the issues over the 25k limit, these are DRM protected downloads runnable from Nokia phones and any computer I nominate with a 90 day period before allowing a reswitch. Will iTunes Match recognise the Nokia DRM protected music files and give me a DRM free product at a higher bitrate?
MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
You won't be able to match non-Apple DRM downloads - you'd have to find a way to strip the DRM off first. For example, Rhapsody had recommended ripping their protected DRM files by burning to CD (as well as Yahoo! Music and Walmart) so that way the DRM layer would be removed at the expense of sound quality. I'm not sure how this service works but iTunes probably won't be able to import them as-is.
You probably don't even need to subscribe to iTM to test this - just install iTunes and try to import the files - if you can't import them into iTunes, then iTM definitely won't work.
You won't be able to match non-Apple DRM downloads - you'd have to find a way to strip the DRM off first. For example, Rhapsody had recommended ripping their protected DRM files by burning to CD (as well as Yahoo! Music and Walmart) so that way the DRM layer would be removed at the expense of sound quality. I'm not sure how this service works but iTunes probably won't be able to import them as-is.
You probably don't even need to subscribe to iTM to test this - just install iTunes and try to import the files - if you can't import them into iTunes, then iTM definitely won't work.
Can iTunes Import Nokia DRM Protected Music Files
