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MP3tunes Offers Music Service Without DRM

Posted by samzenpus on from the let-the-music-flow dept.

ThinSkin writes "Former MP3.com chief and Lindows CEO Michael Robertson will reenter the music world next week with MP3tunes, a service that promises music without DRM restrictions. MP3tunes hopes to attract users who are fed up with restrictions on copying music from sites that use digital-rights-management techniques, such as iTunes."

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  1. OGG/Vorbis support by drivinghighway61 · · Score: 5, Funny

    But will they offer OGG/Vorbis downloads? Seriously, I bought the most expensive mp3 player around so I could listen to my extensive, legal music collection in Vorbis. I don't want to spend my time writing a shell script to convert my mp3s to Vorbis, so is there any chance of MP3Tunes offerning OGG downloads? BTW, I had a Vorbis listening party the other night, and I invited all my female friends [robots] to listen. They all noticed the difference between my 128kB/s OGG files and my 64kB/s MP3 files. Up with OGG/Vorbis!

    1. Re:OGG/Vorbis support by Eptisam · · Score: 2, Funny

      Why would you want to convert an mp3 file into another format? It's typically a lossy proposition... Eptisam

    2. Re:OGG/Vorbis support by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      eriously, I bought the most expensive mp3 player around so I could listen to my extensive, legal music collection in Vorbis

      The iPod now has OGG support???

  2. Cool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I would guess that there about 50,000 regular readers of slashdot. Out of those, probably about 1,000 post regulary, 5,000 semi-regulary. I figure anyone who doesn't post isn't motivated enough to get in the fray to even care about DRM. So, of those 6,000 roughly half care about DRM. Of those 3,000 maybe 1,000 won't use anything with DRM. So - boom - 1,000 customers right off the top. Of the remaining 2,000 who care about DRM, let's be generous, and give this new service half of them. Ok. So we can see that worldwide marketshare for this service is roughly 2000. But, according to recent Slashdot surveys, some 80% of slashdot readers are unemployed and thus have no money to buy music (which is why they steal it.) Anyway, this reduces the marketshare to about 400 individuals. So, unless the are charging $1000 per song, this endevour will go under in just a few months (unless the have venture, then I give it a year.)

  3. Congratulations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    "I swear, people are never satisfied. Apple is doing a great thing, but people will always find something to complain about."

    Congrats. You've managed to state stupid apple fanboi reason #1 without a hint of irony or sarcasm.

    You're serious.

    Therefore, you win this week's Apple Fanboi of the Week award.

    This entitles you to pick the Powerbook of your choice, pay full price, and then you get to come on /. and tell us that a G4 is fast enough for you.

  4. Re:Hooray! by mboverload · · Score: 5, Funny
    You should probably read this then:

    http://www.downhillbattle.org/itunes/

  5. Re:Hooray! by mboverload · · Score: 2, Funny
    "With iTunes I don't feel guilty when I download music - Apple and the record labels do the screwjob for me."

    iTune Music Store: Facelift for a corrupt industry.

  6. I'm an unhappy, but right, obnoxious loon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You just described why I broke up with my last girlfriend.