Calebj14 said:
Calebj14- lets not quote 50 lines of text when you are only referring to 1 line.
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Calebj14- lets not quote 50 lines of text when you are only referring to 1 line.
Chaszmyr said:
yeah, i guess it would be nice for Mac, but we're just not the primary audience for this feature (although it may yet come). think of all the PC folks thinking, "those iPods are pretty sweet, but i've just got a sh!+load of WMA's already ripped. it's just not worth reripping everything, i'll just buy a Dell player & use Musicmatch..."
you know bill is sitting around today thinking, "those SOB's, why didn't WE think of that?" of course, that's assuming M$ wasn't behind the Playfair software...
Short cut key to "Play next in Party shuffle"?
Does anyone know what the keyboard short cut to add a song to the Party shuffle?
Does anyone know what the keyboard short cut to add a song to the Party shuffle?
Rats I'm stuck on a PC here at school. As soon as I get home I'm gonna Download iTunes! The CD case thing is a great idea, I have been waiting for an easy way to make covers!!!
srobert said:
haha
if that would happen on a windows user...
"think windows"... *dialing* "hi, i need help on my windows computer, can you send a technician over?" Bam!! 300 dollars
CD Text?
I haven't seen it referenced so I doubt it's there, but does anyone know if iTunes now has CD Text support? This is has been one of the very few glaring weaknesses I've found with iTunes and why I have had to use Toast to burn music CDs to play on systems that can read it.
I haven't seen it referenced so I doubt it's there, but does anyone know if iTunes now has CD Text support? This is has been one of the very few glaring weaknesses I've found with iTunes and why I have had to use Toast to burn music CDs to play on systems that can read it.
WMA conversion
Does anybody have any indication/proof that the WMA to AAC conversion is indeed a lossless (the produced AAC does exactly the same as the original WMA) conversion and not just an automated decompression (via WMP 9) and recompression?
Does anybody have any indication/proof that the WMA to AAC conversion is indeed a lossless (the produced AAC does exactly the same as the original WMA) conversion and not just an automated decompression (via WMP 9) and recompression?
So with the movie trailers now available is this some sort of foreshadowing? Can we possibly see downloadable movies at some point?
redAPPLE said:
Not at a high enough bit-rate. Lossy encodings work by first determining what they are going to encode. Then they use various algorithms to remove information until they reach their target bitrate. If the target bitrate is high enough that they don't have to throw anything away, then nothing is thrown away and you get a lossless encoding.
WISHLIST
Tried out the wishlist feature works great. You just create a playlist (I called mine "music store wishlist") then as you are browsing the music store you can drag songs to that playlist. When you open the playlist it has those songs listed with the 30 second preview and a "add song" button that puts it into your shopping cart for purchase.
Great feature have been waiting for something like this...
Tried out the wishlist feature works great. You just create a playlist (I called mine "music store wishlist") then as you are browsing the music store you can drag songs to that playlist. When you open the playlist it has those songs listed with the 30 second preview and a "add song" button that puts it into your shopping cart for purchase.
Great feature have been waiting for something like this...
manu chao said:
I can't hear any diffrence playing through my combo stero thing. if anyone wants a little more 'proof' I could go plug my computer in to my dad's hi-fi and give both original .wma and converted .aac a listen...
NOT TRUE..
I have a pair of Mackie HR624's and can DEFINITELY hear the difference, the aac songs are flat or have no depth (I will continue to purchase and have purchased over 100 tunes from the online store...) I import my cds at 1411kbps (exact cd copy) to a sep. 250gb western digital drive.
There is a difference and it does matter...
With hard drives SO cheap (250gb western for $150 on Ebay) it doesn't take much to get it going. As the storage medium becomes greater and cheaper I'll move my files to the next medium.
-mike
Nemesis said:There's NO WAY you can distinguish AAC@192 from the orginal CD, on a hi-fi equipment costing less than $50,000. You're not a music conductor like Herbert von Karajan, and you're not Mozart too, and of course you're not a bat
So, please stop worrying about it!
I have a pair of Mackie HR624's and can DEFINITELY hear the difference, the aac songs are flat or have no depth (I will continue to purchase and have purchased over 100 tunes from the online store...) I import my cds at 1411kbps (exact cd copy) to a sep. 250gb western digital drive.
There is a difference and it does matter...
With hard drives SO cheap (250gb western for $150 on Ebay) it doesn't take much to get it going. As the storage medium becomes greater and cheaper I'll move my files to the next medium.
-mike
DRM changes, and most don't care
This is exactly what the anti-DRM nazis were talking about.. they CHANGED the licensing agreement and nobody cares.
Do you realize what this means? They could simply one day revoke all but 1 of your machine licenses, put all your m4p's into one big encrypted image, and turn your genitals into scrambled eggs and there's nothing you can do about it because YOU agreed to it by buying DRM.
Sure, THIS time it's not a big deal, in fact most people will be happy with this new way of doing things.. but doesn't it bother you that they can take as well as give?
Seven burns down from Ten on tracks you already own.
Think about that; Think Different
This is exactly what the anti-DRM nazis were talking about.. they CHANGED the licensing agreement and nobody cares.
Do you realize what this means? They could simply one day revoke all but 1 of your machine licenses, put all your m4p's into one big encrypted image, and turn your genitals into scrambled eggs and there's nothing you can do about it because YOU agreed to it by buying DRM.
Sure, THIS time it's not a big deal, in fact most people will be happy with this new way of doing things.. but doesn't it bother you that they can take as well as give?
Seven burns down from Ten on tracks you already own.
Think about that; Think Different
Don't install the new version, don't agree to the new license and stay with what you have...slughead said:This is exactly what the anti-DRM nazis were talking about.. they CHANGED the licensing agreement and nobody cares.
Do you realize what this means? They could simply one day revoke all but 1 of your machine licenses, put all your m4p's into one big encrypted image, and turn your genitals into scrambled eggs and there's nothing you can do about it because YOU agreed to it by buying DRM.
Sure, THIS time it's not a big deal, in fact most people will be happy with this new way of doing things.. but doesn't it bother you that they can take as well as give?
Seven burns down from Ten on tracks you already own.
Think about that; Think Different
Chaszmyr said:
It's really obvious to me at least. The big thing about iTunes is the trailers. It's the first test of the popularity of video. iTunes 5 will arrive in time with new Pods which will allow the distribution of movie trailers and the sale of music videos (which I've mentioned here before). 20 years of expensive content the record companies have never sold now has a new channel. It's going to be huge...
Oh yeah - I realize many will say 'Who'd watch video on a 2" screen' or 'Who wants to plug an iPod into a TV'. The answer is me and me. To me those objections sound like 'Who needs a phone you can use in the car?' and 'Who needs a DVD burner in a notebook'.
I'll tell you now that in 2 years iTunes will make more revenue from video than audio.
iTunes Music Sharing
Sharing only works between iTunes of the same version number. i.e. 4.2 does not share with 4.5
Sharing only works between iTunes of the same version number. i.e. 4.2 does not share with 4.5
