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		duskwuff on May 1, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The licensing program for MP3-related patents has ... I don't think the iPod supported AAC at its initial release. Virtually no software supported it at that time -- that didn't really come until 2003, when iTunes 3.0 added support for AAC (including encoding). The Music Store was introduced in the same release, so there would have been a required software update for iPods at the same time, to add support for Fairplay encrypted files.

sjwright on May 1, 2017 [–]

Correct, not supported at the point of release, but its specs did strongly suggest it was factored into the hardware design.

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