Playing Locked AAC (M4P) Files
If you purchased music from the iTunes Store before Apple did away with digital rights management (DRM) in its music, chances are you are in possession of some locked AAC files, which you can recognize by the .m4p extension. These files can be played only on registered machines through iTunes. As you might have already discovered, you cannot do much with such files on your system as is. All you will get when you try to play one is an error message and an option to have Ubuntu search for the missing plug-in. Accepting that option is the easiest way to get the support you need to play such files within Ubuntu.
Once you accept, Ubuntu will search for the plug-in and necessary support files. Once Ubuntu finds them, it ...
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