I agree (except with the last sentence about WMA on the iPod). Strange that I've yet to see anyone mention that Winamp 5 fully supports ripping and playing AAC out of the box. No plugins necessary anymore. Yeah, not Fairplay AAC files, but they could license that from Veridisk if they wanted. AAC itself is getting rather wide support.
Thats odd. I have the exact opposite reaction to iTMS. I have an iPod to play the non-DRM AAC files I rip from my CDs. But won't buy from the music store until they provide.ogg files. My assumption is that if/when the iPod supports ogg, I can simply re-rip my CDs but the AAC files from the music store would be stuck (unless Apple allowed one to trade AAC format for.ogg, but I dont see that happening). The conversion from AAC->CD->OGG is just too painful to contemplate. (Effort and loss)
I don't see a full album price like they have on iTMS. Most albums on the ITMS have more than 10 songs but have a flat fee of ~$10.00. For those that want individual songs, WalMart is cheaper, but for those who want full albums, iTMS seems to still be cheaper.
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I agree (except with the last sentence about WMA on the iPod). Strange that I've yet to see anyone mention that Winamp 5 fully supports ripping and playing AAC out of the box. No plugins necessary anymore. Yeah, not Fairplay AAC files, but they could license that from Veridisk if they wanted. AAC itself is getting rather wide support.
Thats odd. I have the exact opposite reaction to iTMS. I have an iPod to play the non-DRM AAC files I rip from my CDs. But won't buy from the music store until they provide .ogg files. My assumption is that if/when the iPod supports ogg, I can simply re-rip my CDs but the AAC files from the music store would be stuck (unless Apple allowed one to trade AAC format for .ogg, but I dont see that happening). The conversion from AAC->CD->OGG is just too painful to contemplate. (Effort and loss)
> to enter a deal where SGI ports Maya(and whatever other highend apps they have) to the mac...
Maya is already ported to OS X. Has been for a long time. Or am I mixing something up?
I don't see a full album price like they have on iTMS. Most albums on the ITMS have more than 10 songs but have a flat fee of ~$10.00. For those that want individual songs, WalMart is cheaper, but for those who want full albums, iTMS seems to still be cheaper.