stupid lazy people that hate itunes: article

[howard]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05200/540233.stm

rips in a "weird" format that no one else uses?? this is ridiculous. everyone knows it can rip mp3s (safe to say the standard of digital music) just cause its set to aac by default should get everyones undies in a bundle... I get so frustrated with people who don't take the time to see past their feet and learn to use what is in front of them.

[Peterkro]

I very much doubt if the author knows anything about the subject he's writing about,it appears to be cobbled together from PR releases.As for this from Micro$oft,mindboggling,
Microsoft Corp., meanwhile, is attempting to lessen the confusion. Last year, it launched "Plays for Sure," a marketing program that tries to make it clear to consumers which music players and providers are compatible. Under the program, participating companies -- those that license Windows Media compression and rights-management techniques -- label their products "Plays for Sure."

[Doctor Q]

We can each write to the author, Sarah McBride, at sarah.mcbride@wsj.com and set her straight.

Notice the typo in her byline at post-gazette.com. If she can't spell her own name correctly, it might explain why she doesn't understand the first thing about iTunes. :rolleyes:

[iMeowbot]

[rips in a "weird" format that no one else uses?? this is ridiculous. everyone knows it can rip mp3s (safe to say the standard of digital music) just cause its set to aac by default should get everyones undies in a bundle... I get so frustrated with people who don't take the time to see past their feet and learn to use what is in front of them.
The average user really doesn't know that, believe it or not. All they see is that it imports as AAC and the menu shows Convert to AAC. If one doesn't go fishing around in the preferences, there really is no indication that iTunes can do anything else.

[Doctor Q]

Here is the URL (http://www.post-gazette.com/contact/comments_form.asp?ID=42) for submitting letters to the editor for the business section of www.post-gazette.com.

[dmw007]

We can each write to the author, Sarah McBride, at sarah.mcbride@wsj.com and set her straight.

Notice the typo in her byline at post-gazette.com. If she can't spell her own name correctly, it might explain why she doesn't understand the first thing about iTunes. :rolleyes:

Let the spam war begin on this misguided speaker of falsities (aka Sara McBride). How dare she talk smack about iTunes!!!! :eek:

[ham_man]

Holy schmokes some people are dumb. For them, technology is a real bitch...

[iMeowbot]

Ugh, there goes the zealot brigade. Hopefully a few will actually read the article and notice who said and wrote what before shooting off :(

[stevietheb]

Holy schmokes some people are dumb. For them, technology is a real bitch...Yeah...but without those people, some of us would be really po'...

[superbovine]

I very much doubt if the author knows anything about the subject he's writing about,it appears to be cobbled together from PR releases.As for this from Micro$oft,mindboggling,
Microsoft Corp., meanwhile, is attempting to lessen the confusion. Last year, it launched "Plays for Sure," a marketing program that tries to make it clear to consumers which music players and providers are compatible. Under the program, participating companies -- those that license Windows Media compression and rights-management techniques -- label their products "Plays for Sure."

actually, i am pretty sure the author knows that it can rip mp3's. the author was quoting Monica Partridge who said it was a "weird" format. The author probably just used to quote to support her argument about having a singular standard for digital music, and how digital music effects record co's bottomline.

[Doctor Q]

actually, i am pretty sure the author knows that it can rip mp3's. the author was quoting Monica Partridge who said it was a "weird" format. The author probably just used to quote to support her argument about having a singular standard for digital music, and how digital music effects record co's bottomline.Either Sarah McBride didn't know that only a simple preference choice is involved (five choices of import format, plus bitrates, all described in the Help system), in which case she didn't do any research before spreading somebody else's claim, or she knew that Monica Partridge made a simple error, in which case she's even more irresponsible for spreading misinformation. She's free to make her point about standards, but I think she ignored journalistic responsibility.

[treblah]

The WSJ has posted a correction to the story.

Link. (http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/6326/)

[Applespider]

The WSJ has posted a correction to the story.

Link. (http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/6326/)

Probably to stop their mail server from exploding... and you just know that some of the zealots who mailed did so with foul language and overblown comments that would have made most Mac owners cringe but will have successfully swayed that editor from ever writing another Mac article again, in case they all come back (not including any of the MR members in that group) ;)

[Diatribe]

"Monica Partridge, a Los Angeles-based Web master, loves her iPod music player but hates the iTunes music store and organizer. 'When it rips music,' or copies songs to her computer, she says, it 'rips them in that weird format' that only iTunes uses. This makes the songs hard to transfer to any other computer unless that hardware has iTunes software. So, Ms. Partridge skips iTunes altogether," Sarah McBride writes for The Wall Street Journal.


MacDailyNews Take: In informal testing, it took 12 seconds for the average idiot to go to Apple.com and find the pages that explain the facts about which formats iTunes supports for import: http://www.apple.com/itunes/import.html and which formats iPods play: http://www.apple.com/ipod/color/specs.html. Obviously, Sarah McBride is not your "average" idiot: sarah.mcbride@wsj.com . The Wall Street Journal's editors can be reached here: newseditors@wsj.com . Perhaps they can correct these rather obvious mistakes. We hope that, in the future, The Wall Street Journal will commit to doing 12 seconds of "research" before they simply repeat inaccurate statements from "Los Angeles-based Web masters" or anyone else, for that matter. Otherwise, we'd recommend that you skip The Wall Street Journal altogether.


The funniest thing I have read all week. :D

[Doctor Q]

and you just know that some of the zealots who mailed did so with foul language and overblown commentsHow did you know? ;)

[EGT]

The mind boggles :rolleyes:

[Jacksteruk309]

rips in a "weird" format that no one else uses

Anyone else thinking of WMA?

[mactastic]

Oh but 'everyone' uses WMA. ;)

[taeclee99]

From MacDailynews.com

The Wall Street Journal has published a correction to their article regarding Apple's iTunes:

"Changing a setting in the preferences panel in iTunes jukebox software allows a user to copy music from CDs into various formats, including MP3. An article in Monday's Journal Report on Technology quoted an iPod music player owner who implied that iTunes jukebox software copies songs only in the Advanced Audio Coding format. Apple Computer Inc.'s paid download service, the iTunes store, sells songs only in AAC."