Everything but water proof yes. Read up on it here...
http://www.apple.com/ibook/
Space-age materials The iBook was designed with durability in mind. That's why it's made of ultratough polycarbonate plastic -- the same material used in bulletproof glass -- and has an internal magnesium frame for added strength. The hard drive is rubber-mounted for impact resistance. And there are no doors, protruding latches, or levers to break or get snagged.
Click on one of the results without a price and you will see its not available for sale but its still included in the "List All" listing. For Metal it says there is 194 pages * 25 songs per page = 4850, close to 4835 it mentions as the total (the last page is not full). This shows that they are even including songs that are not for sale, so the actual total number of songs for sale as of right now is even less then 100 000. Unless they are hiding somewhere else that I can't see?
Where is the supposed 300 000 tracks? I just went through all of the major categories listed on the main page of buymusic.com. Then I clicked on the List All option for each category. This is what I got:
Titles Within Alternative (11565 matching titles) Titles Within Blues (3927 matching titles) Titles Within Country (10597 matching titles) Titles Within Jazz (22074 matching titles) Titles Within Metal (4835 matching titles) Titles Within New Age (1649 matching titles) Titles Within Oldies (2151 matching titles) Titles Within Pop/Rock (11557 matching titles) Titles Within R&B/Soul (15457 matching titles) Titles Within Rap/Hip Hop (12408 matching titles) Titles Within Reggae (2138 matching titles) Titles Within Soundtracks (333 matching titles) Titles Within World (12794 matching titles)
Equals=111485
Those matching titles are referring to the actually track titles and not the albums since if you take the number of songs listed on the first page times the number of pages you can get the number of "matching titles". The only thing I can think of is that they have music just floating around without a category yet.
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Everything but water proof yes. Read up on it here...
http://www.apple.com/ibook/
Space-age materials
The iBook was designed with durability in mind. That's why it's made of ultratough polycarbonate plastic -- the same material used in bulletproof glass -- and has an internal magnesium frame for added strength. The hard drive is rubber-mounted for impact resistance. And there are no doors, protruding latches, or levers to break or get snagged.
My number includes the songs that it says are "Not available for sale." To test this you can try out the Metal Catogory:
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http://www.buymusic.com/searchresults.aspx?pari
Click on one of the results without a price and you will see its not available for sale but its still included in the "List All" listing. For Metal it says there is 194 pages * 25 songs per page = 4850, close to 4835 it mentions as the total (the last page is not full). This shows that they are even including songs that are not for sale, so the actual total number of songs for sale as of right now is even less then 100 000. Unless they are hiding somewhere else that I can't see?
Where is the supposed 300 000 tracks? I just went through all of the major categories listed on the main page of buymusic.com. Then I clicked on the List All option for each category. This is what I got:
Titles Within Alternative (11565 matching titles)
Titles Within Blues (3927 matching titles)
Titles Within Country (10597 matching titles)
Titles Within Jazz (22074 matching titles)
Titles Within Metal (4835 matching titles)
Titles Within New Age (1649 matching titles)
Titles Within Oldies (2151 matching titles)
Titles Within Pop/Rock (11557 matching titles)
Titles Within R&B/Soul (15457 matching titles)
Titles Within Rap/Hip Hop (12408 matching titles)
Titles Within Reggae (2138 matching titles)
Titles Within Soundtracks (333 matching titles)
Titles Within World (12794 matching titles)
Equals=111485
Those matching titles are referring to the actually track titles and not the albums since if you take the number of songs listed on the first page times the number of pages you can get the number of "matching titles". The only thing I can think of is that they have music just floating around without a category yet.
Anyone have any light to shed on this?