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Steve Jobs Announces (some) DRM-free iTunes
Fjan11 writes "Steve Jobs just announced that starting next month on you can buy higher quality 256Kbps AAC encoded DRM-free versions of iTunes songs for $1.29. Upgrades to songs you've already bought will be available at the $0.30 price difference. Currently EMI is the only publisher participating, accounting for about 20% of the songs available." There's also reports from Reuters and ABC News. The deal excludes the Beatles. You can also read the official press release from Apple if you still think this a late joke; this story confirms earlier speculation.
So you can pay more for the service that you should have had in the first place? What a bargain.
But to be fair a step in the right direction.
let them be a relic of the past, if they dont get along well with what the current day extensions if "68' revolution" that they have so happily joined, brings.
and again, kudos to emi, and steve jobs and apple crowd.
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In other news, the iPod now requires me to plug in a dongle in my parallel port before I can open iTunes and transfer any music. What's that you say? You don't have a parallel port anymore? TOO BAD!
Ha! It doesn't cost 30 cents to send the entire file. This is just milking people for all they can get.
When will these fuckers get it? a buck a song? Fuck THAT. I will pay up to 8$ for a physical CD and 1/2 that for high quality compressed files. PERIOD. Until these assholes get it, I will get my music elsewhere.
How many of those are mainstream, or even semi-mainstream? The PSP and maybe the Ipaq.
How many of those are strictly mp3 players? None.
Slow Down, Cowboy! It's been 60 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment.
Who owns what format is irrelevant, what is relevant is who can play them.
DRM'd WMA? Hundreds of different mp3 players from tons of companies.
DRM'd AAC? ONE mp3 player from ONE company.
How can you claim that Microsoft is trying to control the music industry and Apple isn't, when Microsoft is the only one of the two who implements an open-format DRM scheme to foster interoperability?
Slow Down, Cowboy! It's been 60 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment.
Very true. I shouldn't have said M$ lapdogs. They are more anti-Apple bigots.
I just recall the laughing and making fun of Microsoft when their onerous wifi squirting restrictions was revealed. I didn't recall the extreme anger at Balmer/Gates for this as much as the venom towards Jobs for calling for DRM-free music. I guess the difference really stuck in my mind fo some reason.
Prof. Farnsworth - "Oh a lesson in not changing history from Mr I'm-My-Own-Grandpa!"
I'm not sure if your post is meant as satire or not. Assuming it's not let me suggest you are a `tard. Lossless compared to What? any recording of anything is "lossy" in that playing it back does not cause an experience indistinguishable from live music. Indeed some music an never even be played live. So what is lossy?
if the music sounds the way the artist meant it, and the artist is satisfied then that's the music. What you are buying is not "missing" anything the artist wanted you to hear. You are getting full value.
In this case if you are quibbling that 128bit AAC sounds jarring to you tuned ears, well know that they are going to offer higher bit rates too. Moreover, for the 12 people like you, just buy the CD and stop whining that he needs to sell something that satisfies your illusions before you will buy.
On the other hand if your post was satirizing those lossless whiner-clowns then good job. too subtle perhaps.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
"For those that complain about the format, you can EASILY have it in MP3 format.
Howto Follows> Launch your iTunes..."
Not only is that NOT easy, it is impossible.
uchair@chair:~$ sudo apt-get install itunes
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package itunes
uchair@chair:~$ sudo apt-get install iTunes
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package iTunes