Real Reincorporates iPod Compatibility

April 27, 2005 By Ian Bell

News.com is reporting that RealNetworks has re-established iPod compatibility with their music software - for now at least.

Last year, RealNetworks was able to make their Harmony music download software compatible with Apple’s popular iPod MP3 player. Apple however quickly released a patch destroying the compatibility between the two. Well, Real is back and this time you can use their music software to play their songs on the Apple iPod once again. At least until Apple releases an updated patch again.

“RealNetworks’ Harmony software, which allows songs to be played directly on an iPod or on a Microsoft-based device, is limited to the company’s pay-per-song store. Songs downloaded through the new Rhapsody portable subscription service are compatible only with a small number of Windows-based MP3 players. “

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fungku at 7:40pm 27th April 2005 sucks that apple chooses to restrict their users this way
Jesse Anderson at 3:18pm 27th April 2005 i give it 1 week.
James at 2:07pm 27th April 2005 I give this 3 weeks before Apple patches it.