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Amazon MP3 Vs. iTunes Music Store
Ali writes "As discussed here recently, amazon.com has launched a public beta of Amazon MP3, a digital music store that provides DRM-free downloads of over 2 million songs from 180,000 artists and 20,000 labels. In comparison, Apple says the iTunes Store now contains over 6 million songs. Here is a head-to-head comparison."
you fucking low life apple fanboi. these are steps we shouldn't have to take. we have the right to the music unhindered. we're already paying too much for this music. we should get if for free and without drm.
you're nothing but steve jobs house nigger. how much did they pay you to come and be a shill? you paid for fuckers are easy to see from a distance.
I have declared open war on mindless Apple suckers. No matter what, they will either try to prove Apple is the best, or come up with lame defenses to remove any shade of negativity on Apple's part. Sick of it already!! Not a fanboi, huh!?
Even without DRM (itunes premium?) using apple's proprietary data format, you're taking a risk since the data format hasn't been made publicly available. Re-processing those files as MP3 (or doing the 'burn to cd and reimport to get around apple's DRM' trick) is non-optimal since you're using two compressed data formats which are lossy in different ways.
Never mind. Its just that Apple fanbois are out in droves to put stupid tags to salvage some points on the story which will get some anti-Apple comments favoring a service from a competitor to apple.
You have not heard of anyone? I have a brother in law who bought music and now wants a different device, he can't trade it over and basically lost all his music, a guy I work with in IT of all things, bought videos off of iTunes and had to fix or reformat his computer, and he can't use those purchased videos anymore, it is like buying a DVD and then if you are really good "they" will let you view it.....on their software, their hardware, their terms!
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Let me guess: You buy overpriced $100 gold tipped cables, don't you?
That is all.
I'd like the freedom to change to tomorrow's super-high-compression/quality format when it comes out.
Tomorrow's 1280 kbps, 192 kHz, 8 channel surround sound? I'm sure you'll dutifully transcode all your old files, just like you converted all your old 11 kHz mono WAVs to FLAC, right? The anal retentive FLAC crowd will be at the front of the line to throw away more money on the same files they've repurchased dutifully for decades. I can hear it now... "It's better quality!" Like any of you can hear the difference anyway. I stand by my gold cable statement.
I'll pass.