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Skriven 2006-08-01 15:29:00 av Robert E Starr JR (5942.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: City of Dreams
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In article <kausc2dhouqn2uve1ch05ojhjmpc3ellpf@gordol.org>,
 Jeffrey Kaplan <nomail@gordol.org> wrote:

> iTunes is another proprietary thing.  You need iTunes on your computer
> to get it and play it on your computer and an iPod to play it
> elsewhere.

or a blank CD to record it to. there's also plenty of 3rd party software 
for loading the ipod with, and yes, it actually still works. 

> Well, I never liked the iTunes software even when I had an iPod.  Now,
> I've got neither.
> 
> Rhapsody, at least, gives you a choice of iTunes or "everyone else"
> compatible DRM.

i don't like subscription based services.  with iTunes if i like a song, 
i pay $.99 and get the song, i can then do whatever i want with it, burn 
it to CD(as an audio CD), copy it to any one of 5 other computers, load 
it on an ipod, or if i want some other mp3 player, i can simply burn it 
to audio cd, and import it as standard mp3 as soon as the burning ends. 
if no good music comes out for months on end, i simply pay nothing and 
don't buy any more. 

in the subscription services(yahoo, rhapsody, napster), you pay your 
monthly charge, download whatever you want. if you want to play it 
forever, you can either pay whatever that service charges for the "buy" 
rate(usually around $.99 also) and then you can again do whatever you 
want(contrary to what you say, it's NOT "everyone else" it's also 
selected brands of mp3 players, just more of them) or, if you've 
downloaded 1000 songs and don't want to/have the money to buy them all 
individually to keep them, you can listen to them only as long as you 
keep paying a subscription fee, regardless of if you ever want any new 
songs. 

in short, 
buying 10 songs in iTunes=$9.99
buying 10 songs in rhapsody=$9.99 for the monthly fee + whatever it 
costs for buying each song since i can't find those prices listed as 
rhapsody doesn't seem to want to show me anything other than the main 
page since it deems my browser "too old" 

if the rental plan works for you, cool, it doesn't work for me at all, 
and paying twice(monthly fee + purchase fee) also doesn't work for me. 
and getting the music out of apple's "exclusive" locked format, and into 
a general and open format is absolutely trivial(hell, you can use a 
Cd-RW if you're worried about the cost of a cd-r being used up every 
time you want to "open up" a song)

as for the itunes software itself, it's dreamily easy to use, smart 
playlists, custom smart playlists, non-smart playlists(ie, cherry 
picking songs i want), listing songs instantly by any one of about 20 
different criteria, batch editing of id3 tag information, automatic 
query of CDDB for the title/artist/track/album name of any audio CD you 
put in, along with ripping of that cd with one click(or just one song on 
that cd, in aiff, mp3, aac, apple losless, or wav, all fully 
customizable for quality), burning of CD's instantly as either mp3 or 
audio cd(which i've never had fail to play in any player that says "mp3 
compatible" or "cd-r compatible" and working with stereos and dvd 
players and home theaters, they get played in damn near every model that 
comes out every year), ability to broadcast my library across my LAN(no, 
i don't use this since the only other machine on my LAN is in my living 
room and i have no real reason to send it over there since i'm always 
over here), and as of right now, 899 available streaming audio broadcast 
stations. 

that's not even touching the "store" 

...Chris
                                                                               
                
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