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Apple to Launch Music Service?

Posted by michael on from the pay-to-play dept.

discstickers writes "The San Jose Mercury News is running an article about an Apple music service that might be ready to launch next month. $.99 a song with the ability to burn to CD doesn't sound too bad."

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  1. Re:Apple DRM... by pi+radians · · Score: 4, Informative
    From other reports on the net, it sounds like the files will be AAC.

    From the LA Times:
    Sources said Apple will make the songs available for sale through a new version of iTunes, its software for managing music files on Macs. Users will be able to buy and download songs with a single click and transfer them automatically to any iPod they've registered with Apple....Rather than make the songs available in the popular MP3 format, Apple plans to use a higher fidelity technology known as Advanced Audio Codec.
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  2. Re:At first glance... by Coz · · Score: 5, Informative

    when CDs can often be found for $10-12 or even less

    Not sure where you're shopping, but popular CDs are running $14.99 around here (DC area) - you have to go to the used CD stores or the bargain bins to get down into the $10 range - and the used stores are only $2 or so cheaper than the new ones around here.

    Besides, when was the last time you bought an album for the album and not just a couple of songs? Meatloaf? Pink Floyd? There aren't that manny artists producing thematic albums, instead of "compilations of 3-5 minute songs we just wrote."

    I'd pay $0.99 a track to create my own version of someone's Greatest Hits.

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  3. Advanced Audio Codec info by burgburgburg · · Score: 4, Informative
    Info on the Advanced Audio Codec can be found here and here.

    The LA Times article says that the AAC files can be DRM locked, but that Apple has required that they can be burned onto a CD, which would unlock them.