Anyone know if alpine cd headunits that advertise as MP3/WMA complient (the ones without the ipod connectivity) actually support the Apple AAC format?. I have a whole collection of AAC and im reluctant to buy an Ipod if i can just buy a CD Tuner which will play them from a CD/DVD?.
i'll try when the wife gets home with the 2
I think the answer will be no. AAC files are DRM'd. You can't burn them to MP3 CD directly (I tried - it failed), although you are allowed to convert them to audio CD a limited number of times. Unless the head unit says somewhere that it will handle AAC files, then I dont think it will work.
You may want to investigate JHymn (http://www.hymn-project.org/) although using this almost certainly violates your iTunes/iTMS end user licence agreement, as advised on the JHymn site.