Last time I looked on Amazon there was a different price for European users as for US users. Essentially, European users were not allowed to buy music from the US site and the European site was more expensive.
In addition, I'm pretty sure flac was not an option. mp3 programs will not play out of the box on Linux and converting the song so that it does results in degradation.
There's a big difference in the way this was launched in my opinion.
Flac *is* lossless. I have no intention of loading that into any players, merely it's a good lossless source that allows me to record to whatever format I wish to play in, namely ogg. Suggesting a proprietory format as an alternative really is not the way forward:-) I thought everyone here wanted out of proprietory formats.
The only reason I didn't download other drm free ones in the past was the lack of flac or ogg. Flac is best of course, as it's just like buying the album for real.
Using one price for the globe is also cool. I never expected it to come from Paul McCartney though considering comments from him in the past.
I've never downloaded an album illegally in my life, but then I've never bought an album via a download either till now when finally someone makes flac available.
To be honest though, I'm mainly doing it out of principle to support good sense finally. I'd like to see Madonna's albums like this, I wouldn't have to all the way to the shops:-)
If O2's network was good enough I wouldn't have so much of a problem with this. However, O2's network is simply not worth being tied into. I put an O2 sim into my HSDPA phone (TyTN II) and I swear it wasn't even getting 64kb/s, so it's not going to benefit much from the 3G version. If this were on Vodafone in the UK, I would extend the contract as that was several times faster than O2's when I tested it (It felt about 5x faster at least).
Except that once you have the tunnel up and all the traffic is then udp the iphone will drop the link within 30 seconds of not having an active tcp connection working. And you can't get it to come up again automatically because the iphone software doesn't think the link is down and it gets out of link. This happens because the iphone drops the data link to the mobile operator so the udp packets don't travel there anymore. All of this means that you cannot use a vpn to collect you mail with because the minimum request time you can configure is 15 minutes (For mail). Bad implementation, you can use it to connect to an intranet to view pages from a website, but it would be nice to set up generic secure communications and you can't right now. I know this because spent a couple of weeks implementing this and testing it.
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Last time I looked on Amazon there was a different price for European users as for US users. Essentially, European users were not allowed to buy music from the US site and the European site was more expensive. In addition, I'm pretty sure flac was not an option. mp3 programs will not play out of the box on Linux and converting the song so that it does results in degradation. There's a big difference in the way this was launched in my opinion.
Flac *is* lossless. I have no intention of loading that into any players, merely it's a good lossless source that allows me to record to whatever format I wish to play in, namely ogg. Suggesting a proprietory format as an alternative really is not the way forward :-) I thought everyone here wanted out of proprietory formats.
The only reason I didn't download other drm free ones in the past was the lack of flac or ogg. Flac is best of course, as it's just like buying the album for real. Using one price for the globe is also cool. I never expected it to come from Paul McCartney though considering comments from him in the past. I've never downloaded an album illegally in my life, but then I've never bought an album via a download either till now when finally someone makes flac available. To be honest though, I'm mainly doing it out of principle to support good sense finally. I'd like to see Madonna's albums like this, I wouldn't have to all the way to the shops :-)
If O2's network was good enough I wouldn't have so much of a problem with this. However, O2's network is simply not worth being tied into. I put an O2 sim into my HSDPA phone (TyTN II) and I swear it wasn't even getting 64kb/s, so it's not going to benefit much from the 3G version. If this were on Vodafone in the UK, I would extend the contract as that was several times faster than O2's when I tested it (It felt about 5x faster at least).
Except that once you have the tunnel up and all the traffic is then udp the iphone will drop the link within 30 seconds of not having an active tcp connection working. And you can't get it to come up again automatically because the iphone software doesn't think the link is down and it gets out of link. This happens because the iphone drops the data link to the mobile operator so the udp packets don't travel there anymore. All of this means that you cannot use a vpn to collect you mail with because the minimum request time you can configure is 15 minutes (For mail). Bad implementation, you can use it to connect to an intranet to view pages from a website, but it would be nice to set up generic secure communications and you can't right now. I know this because spent a couple of weeks implementing this and testing it.