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iTunes for Windows!
visciouslymamed:
--- Quote ---Can I purchase and download MP3s, and play them on a player other than the itunes app? I assume I have to use their app to shop and download?
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If you purchase music through the iTunes store, the file is Dolby AAC. This format is not used often in other media players because you have to pay for the AAC license and the Dolby AAC license.
You can however, burn them to a disc and then encode them to whatever format you want.
vitaflo:
--- Quote from: X-0 on October 17, 2003, 12:48:10 pm ---As a download service...a step in the right direction, but I have not seen clear answers on DRM issues, and I still have issues with the price. Several albums I looked for were not available at an album price, you had to buy each song individually...adding up to more than the CD would cost. Second, even at the $10 point it's too much. This is not CD quality music, so it should not cost what I can find the CD for. Period. I don't mind buying less-than-CD-quality music, but I want less-than-CD-prices for it. If it adds a DRM hassle on top of that, I won't be spending money on it.
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What are your DRM questions? Apple's DRM is the best DRM there is really. You own the music, you don't "rent" it. You can copy any songs you purchase on up to 3 other computers. You can put purchased songs on an unlimited number of iPods. You can burn the same playlist to CD 10 times, the same song to as many different playlists as you want.
Basically, unless you're a pirate, you'll never notice the DRM at all.
ITrek:
Personally, I love that 99 cents per song price. I have plenty of full albums but most only have a couple of good songs and the rest of the songs are just garbage filler that the artist came up with to fill up the CD. I can't even count how many times I would have bought the whole album but didn't want to pay $12 - $15 just to get one good song I liked.
X-0:
--- Quote from: vitaflo on October 18, 2003, 12:03:25 pm ---
What are your DRM questions? Apple's DRM is the best DRM there is really. You own the music, you don't "rent" it. You can copy any songs you purchase on up to 3 other computers. You can put purchased songs on an unlimited number of iPods. You can burn the same playlist to CD 10 times, the same song to as many different playlists as you want.
Basically, unless you're a pirate, you'll never notice the DRM at all.
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Unless you use more than 3 computers....2 at home, a tablet that goes everywhere (and works as the car jukebox), and 2 more at work. I don't have an iPod, just an older Rio 500 that doesn't work on DRM files. Anytime I have purchased music online, I have run into problems because of this...so I end up turning the files to an audio disc, and then re-ripping them as non-DRM mp3. For that hassle and that price, I end up better off just finding the CD and ripping it. The whole point of online music is that it's supposed to be easier and more flexible, which DRM does not allow.
vitaflo:
--- Quote from: X-0 on October 19, 2003, 01:06:00 pm --- The whole point of online music is that it's supposed to be easier and more flexible, which DRM does not allow.
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Blame the RIAA. There won't be a better DRM implimentation than what Apple is offering, most are quite a bit more restrictive. If it was up to Apple they would have no restrictions at all, but if they did that, they wouldn't have a music store since the big lables wouldn't sign on without DRM.
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