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Skriven 2006-08-01 15:43:00 av Robert E Starr JR (5956.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: City of Dreams
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It is alleged that Chris claimed:

> > 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. 

I know.  But of the fully "iTunes format compatible" that I could find,
none of them worked well, or indeed at all for me.  Moot point now that
I no longer use an iPod.
 
> > 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, 

Me neither.  Rhapsody has both a subscription service and a regular
"you like it, you buy it" plan.  So does Napster.

> 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. 

Since you're starting with a lossy compression format to begin with,
and then re-compressing that, there is a not insignificant loss of
audio quality.

> in the subscription services(yahoo, rhapsody, napster), you pay your 

Check them out again.  Napster and Rhapsody, at the least, do not force
you to buy a subscription plan.  They encourage you to, but you do not
have to, in order to buy music from them.  Rhapsody even says: "No
monthly fee" on their info page.

> 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" 

Napster: $0.99 per track.
 
> if the rental plan works for you, cool, it doesn't work for me at all, 

It does not.

> as for the itunes software itself, it's dreamily easy to use, smart 
> playlists, custom smart playlists, non-smart playlists(ie, cherry 

It also takes up a massive amount of disk space, is slow to load, slow
to respond to some commands, slowed down my computer when running, slow
to update its library, and I found it cumbersome to use because common
control elements were missing.

I also found that other iPod management software not only doesn't have
all of that, they also managed the content on the iPod better.  With
iTunes, I had to do double-maintenance.  To get rid of a song from the
iPod, I had to remove it from iTunes AND the iPod, otherwise iTunes
would simply copy it back into its library from the iPod, or back to
the iPod from the library.

> 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" 

Give Winamp a try sometime. :)

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