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Apple Releases Major iTunes Update
shunnicutt writes "Apple has released iTunes 4.5 (and iPod software 2.2 and QuickTime 6.5.1) and relaxed some iTunes Music Store restrictions: now tracks you purchased can be authorized to play on up to five other computers, instead of three. However, they reduced the number of times you can burn a playlist to an audio CD from ten to seven. Another new feature is iMix, which allows you to publish playlists on iTMS, including comments on each track. The iTMS also offers a weekly free single for download."
crazney adds "This release also changes their network sharing protocol in a way that breaks the open source iTunes sharing applications that have been released (based on my work on iTunes 4.2's DRM)."
kefoo writes "Among the new features is Apple Lossless Encoding, which claims to compress losslessly to half the size of uncompressed CD quality audio." Hm, and I was about to re-rip all my CDs at 320 kbps MP3 ...
Update: 04/28 14:56 GMT by P : I just tested, and I can listen to previously de-DRM'd AAC files from playfair, but I cannot use either playfair or FairTunes any longer. The former "Couldn't get DRM key for user," and the latter produces a blank file.
I asked my G5 to play itself at a game of "Global Compression Format War". It started by launching a powerful attack out of Germany, targetting every continent simultaneously. Then Washington fired back at Germany, and within a few months OSS bases around the world joined the fray. The record industry suffered heavy casualties, but just as things were looking really grim, a coordinated nerve gas attack on their behlf, out of California, neutralized their enemies... but only temporarily. Norway distributed a powerful antidote... the secret formula was banned in the US though, so manufacturing was moved to India. And on it went with this simulation... util after exhausting every possible scenario, it concluded:
"The only winning move is not to play."
Can't way to see how Apple tried to lock people in to a lossless format... best of luck to you guys, and have fun pissing away your resources on this stupid game.
Apple Lossless Encoding
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So let's bring out the ALE and get drunk celebrating.
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This is awesome! Sounds like FLAC for iPods. How could you not want one now???
Mmmmm, lossless goodness, tastes great, less filling.
-- taking over the world, we are.
I sure that mini-iPod wearing person is a dude. It kind of looks like a guy. If it is, I am sure that he is going to get his ass kicked by some Rio-wearing dudes.
"nefarious Jobsian plot to make us buy those gigantic cinema displays"
As with many things in life (bigger budgets/more expenses, bigger houses/more junk), the bigger your screen gets, the more apps you will run... thus nullifying the larger screen's real-estate.
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can't you get that kind of compression(get 40mb wav into 20mb file) with just zip&others
Absolutely, for WAV files which are half silence.
Is that real Queueing, or a workaround?
Ummm...does it matter? What constitutes "real Queueing" for you? It fuckin queues a track. Sounds real enough to me.
There is no noticeable sound degradation reripping at 160k MP3.
At least not to me, a mere mortal. Perhaps an audio god could detect a difference. But they wouldn't recompress anyway - they'd store them all as uncompressed raw audio after hand-ripping them from the original masters they borrowed from the publisher.
It doesn't hurt to be nice.
. . .bigger budgets/more expenses, bigger houses/more junk. . .
May I humbly offer the suggestion that you acquire Self-Restraint 1.0?
It's free.
KFG
"I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."
>May I humbly offer the suggestion that you acquire Self-Restraint 1.0?
>It's free.
>KFG
Free as in beer? Or Free as in speech?
Sorry, I couldn't RESIST.
Tired of legitimate data sources? Try UNCYCLOPEDIA
The extension for the lossless codec is .m4a (yes I checked), these are two short sample files (440 Hz, 1s).
They're right, it's lossless, I can't tell the difference between the two! :p
Trollem mirabilem hanc subnotationis exigiutas non caperet
Yeah but you have to grab the screen with your hand and concentrate.
Bush and Blair ate my sig!
Yep. It's a well-known fact that Lennon and McCartney could only write a quarter of a song each. (Things got even worse when Ringo or George wanted to pitch in. Lots of dealing with fractions...) At the end of their frustrated labors, only half a song sat on the table before them. That's when they broke out the LSD and called in the groupies! And now you know why it's called a "hummer."
What? Apple sells sesktops, laptops, and servers?! This is shocking news!
Yes, and they have been going belly up for 20 years too!
If what you are reading sounds funny, or sarcastic, lame, or stupid
it is because it is supposed to be. just laugh
It's free.
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I've seen a demo of that, but.. I was unimpressed. There's no documentation, either.
I make these: http://beatseqr.com
Hah. I will trade you a DBA for that Comm major.
I once had to explain the concept of adding a negative number to a positive number, and why 1 + (-1) = 0 instead of 2. I found it very scary when that DBA got the "glazed-eye syndrome".
Secure multi-mediation is the future of all webbing...
Self-Restraint Documentation Project
KFG