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iTunes 4.5 Released

Mac Dummy said:
...no songs bought from Napster 2.0 or the Walmart music store can play in iTunes. :(
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Perhaps its a good thing that those services aren't selling many songs, then? The ITMS is far ahead of its competitors. And it's no more restrictive than Windows Media Player. Try playing your ITMS songs in Windows Media Player--it won't work either.

Chris
 
No Toast? - Just buy a new Mac!

tny said:
1. You can burn regular audio CDs from iTunes (at least on the Mac, and since you're referring to "Toast," and Roxio's Windows software is "Easy CD Creator," I would assume you have a Mac). I have made CDs that way, and they work fine in standard consumer component audio CD players.
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Not if you have a burner Apple doesn't feel like supporting. Several firewire drives sold by major Mac catalogs fall into this category. (patchburn II is a workaround, but it's not supported by anybody)
 
slow twitch said:
Anybody know if there is any technological reason for this? Or is it simply that, after a mere 2 and a half years, Apple has consigned us 1st generation iPoders to the dustbin of history?
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The codec functions of an iPod are handled the PortalPlayer chip onboard, not the general-purpose CPU's, at least historically. Doing it in silicon is good for battery life.

What's weird is that the Portal Player doesn't support a lossless codec, unless they have a pre-release version of MPEG-4 ALS in there. So maybe Apple has gone and implemented a codec for the ARM chips. That would explain the generation limitation, and lossless codecs are the least CPU intensive, but it's still more costly than letting the dedicated hardware handle it so, it's going to hurt battery. Then again audio kooks are willing to make those kinds of sacrifices.
 
You bring up a good point about the lossless codec. It will eat into iPod battery life quite a bit because the hard drive will have to stay busy feeding data to the buffer.

Chris
 
imix

So far, I've found the iMixes really usefull for discovering new tunes to download in Limewire... Would rather buy them, but the rest of the world just isn't good enough... :-(
 
People like you...

marckb said:
So far, I've found the iMixes really usefull for discovering new tunes to download in Limewire... Would rather buy them, but the rest of the world just isn't good enough... :-(
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You know if you are not helping to solve the problem them don't add to it...
 
erm.. don't suppose anyone could provide me with a direct link to the ..erm.. windows version of 4.5, cos i'd quite like it for this pc but because my ISP likes to disconnect me every 2hours i need to be able to resume the download

ta
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idkew said:
...and then ask someone to go out of their way to answer a question that has been answered multiple times.
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Or is easily answered by looking at the online help.
 
dontmatter said:
People only thought it was worth downoading software, reorganizing their library, etc. if they could use it for free music...and not the legal sharing, of course, but downloading...I hope this stuff is cracked soon, so itunes can keep it's spot as the top jukebox software on campus.
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This is a *good thing*. It doesn't matter if iTunes has the top spot as on-campus jukebox software if the only reason people want it is to be able to steal music. Apple doesn't want that, and neither should anyone who wants Apple to prosper.

The only important iTunes users are a) iPod owners, b) iTMS customers, or 3) legitimate music buyers and users. College students who want iTunes simply so that they can download music illegally are terrible for Apple's business.
 
Wow, I was on my winXP box and went to download the new 1) Quicktime, and 2) iTunes.

On windows, both downloads are the same, they are now bundled... it says "Thank you for downloading quicktime and itunes", and the filename for either one is: iTunessetup.exe, which might be confusing for those who just clicked for Quicktime.

I just did it through software update on my mac so I didn't notice if it was bundled there...
 
Nix "Created by iTunes"

If you do PRINT and choose SAVE AS PDF instead of print, you can then open the pdf in Adobe Illustrator and modify it, including removing the line giving credit to iTUNES.
 
Santaduck said:
Wow, I was on my winXP box and went to download the new 1) Quicktime, and 2) iTunes.

On windows, both downloads are the same, they are now bundled... it says "Thank you for downloading quicktime and itunes", and the filename for either one is: iTunessetup.exe, which might be confusing for those who just clicked for Quicktime.

I just did it through software update on my mac so I didn't notice if it was bundled there...
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There are two separate parts in Software Update.

It's interesting that Apple bundles the Windows version but I suppose they're trying to make sure people try it. It's a bit forceful, especially if people just want to view movie trailers in the QuickTime player.
 
i want my iTunes rendezvous sharing enabled stereo!!!!!!! lol, thats a good idea tho, i mean, my computer(PC- not my pb) speakers arent that good, but my stereo's are better.... i wish i could play them over those, but they'd have to be networked and a lot more expensive.....
 
Is this a new feature of iTunes? If you listen to a few samples, it will prompt you to log in and buy something. I've never seen this before 4.5. How convenient! :mad:
 
Quit bugging us, Apple!

jackc said:
Is this a new feature of iTunes? If you listen to a few samples, it will prompt you to log in and buy something. I've never seen this before 4.5. How convenient! :mad:
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No, this isn't a new feature. It's been here for a while now and I, too, hate it! :mad:
 
PLEASE! Higher Bitrate!

I Hope someone important (at Apple; technically we're all important ;) ) hears this, but the main reason I've only downloaded a few songs from iTMS is that I want higher bitrate songs! I hope that such a feature will come with the next major revision(yeah right!). Even 160 or 192kbps AAC would be great compared to 128! Even on a $10 pair of headphones I can hear the difference between the 128 kbps file and the CD. On my ~$3000 stereo (yes stereo, surround speakers cost me another $650) setup I can hear a BIG difference in musical vibrance.
PLEASE Apple, I beg of thee, satisfy my lust for higher quality music, and I will buy! :p

-MCG
 
adamberti said:
"Windows Media Player 9 or later must be installed to convert unprotected WMA files" -> PC only I guess.
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I didnt get that, I had to download the newest verison of windows media though...
 
uzombie said:
Maybe YOU can't, but there are many with superb hearing that can hear the compression/difference.

I heard that!

:D
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There is a slight difference, Its all in the high end, symbols and stuff like that. But it still sounds alot better than MP3 and WMA
 
mms said:
Apple tried a new encryption scheme, due to the cracking of the one in 4.2. Alas, the same guy breaks it again, and really quickly this time.
http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/04/04/29/1554231.shtml?tid=107&tid=141&tid=187&tid=188
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Hmm.. not any encryption, but the authentication algorithm Apple uses for shares over a network (presumably to not allow other jukeboxes to access these shares). This little program bypasses this problem and lets you play available shares (i.e. not copying the music) on for instance a Linux box. This has nothing to do with the way PlayFair works (or apparently not works now) that strips the DRM encoding alltogether so you "may" copy the files.
 
I read all of the posts, so I don't think I am double posting. Have you guys noticed that (at least the new free songs) have FairPlay version 2, whereas previously bought iTMS songs have version 1? So does this mean you are under the original contract for the first songs you bought, and can still only share to 3 computers and burn to ten discs? This might prove as an interesting hole in the future if FairPlay changes again (which it probably will).
–Chase
 
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