Yah subscrption services are fine, until you cancel your subscription or the company goes belly up. Then all the music you collected is unaccessable due to retarded DRM. At least with iTunes I can burn a copy of the music I buy, becuase I bought it, instead of renting it though some subscription service.
[sarcasam] Your right we should have been doing this a long time ago, the tag is just an electronic ID number. Before there were RFID tags we just could have tattoed the number on the kids' wrist. Though I think someone else has tried that method before.[/sarcasam]
"The best "online music service" is still to buy CDs online, wait for them to arrive, and then rip'n'encode on your home computer, into whatever format happens to work best with ytour playback equipment. I'm not going to buy proprietary formats, because I don't know if I'll be able to play them next year -- heck, I can't even play most of them right now. "
iTunes lets you burn songs to CD/DVD. Just buy songs you want burn them to CD, then you can play it in any CD player on earth or Rip the songs from the CD using whatever encoding software you normaly use. And $.99 isn't a bad price. Most full albums on iTunes go for under $10. And the best part is you only have to buy the songs you actually want off the album, which for me is ually 2 or 3. iTunes will be a lot cheaper for me in the long run.
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Yah subscrption services are fine, until you cancel your subscription or the company goes belly up. Then all the music you collected is unaccessable due to retarded DRM. At least with iTunes I can burn a copy of the music I buy, becuase I bought it, instead of renting it though some subscription service.
[sarcasam] Your right we should have been doing this a long time ago, the tag is just an electronic ID number. Before there were RFID tags we just could have tattoed the number on the kids' wrist. Though I think someone else has tried that method before.[/sarcasam]
Heres an artcle on the same subject at Reuters but without the need to register to view it. http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=te chnologyNews&storyID=3678908§ion=news
"The best "online music service" is still to buy CDs online, wait for them to arrive, and then rip'n'encode on your home computer, into whatever format happens to work best with ytour playback equipment. I'm not going to buy proprietary formats, because I don't know if I'll be able to play them next year -- heck, I can't even play most of them right now. " iTunes lets you burn songs to CD/DVD. Just buy songs you want burn them to CD, then you can play it in any CD player on earth or Rip the songs from the CD using whatever encoding software you normaly use. And $.99 isn't a bad price. Most full albums on iTunes go for under $10. And the best part is you only have to buy the songs you actually want off the album, which for me is ually 2 or 3. iTunes will be a lot cheaper for me in the long run.