noxes said:
Might have puretracks and Connect in canada...but both are PC based and Connect has already said they are not expanding to other OS's anytime soon. Who wants .wma format anyways?
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Might have puretracks and Connect in canada...but both are PC based and Connect has already said they are not expanding to other OS's anytime soon. Who wants .wma format anyways?
Yeah, I've given up for the time being. (By the way, as long as you have a U.S. credit card, you can download tunes, right? Should be the same with the Canadian version when it comes out.) I made an account at Audiolunchbox.com the other day. They have a lot of good stuff.
Squire
Squire
What's up with Sony Connect Canada?
Yeah, I'd forgotten about Sony Connect Canada. When I checked it out, I realised that Squire was right, and that it was also using PureTracks.
What gives?
Is Sony having problems lauching Connect in Canada? Maybe they had to use PureTracks to keep their music giveaway deal with McDonalds. Maybe Connect is running into some problems of its own... Like ITMS??
Yeah, I'd forgotten about Sony Connect Canada. When I checked it out, I realised that Squire was right, and that it was also using PureTracks.
What gives?
Is Sony having problems lauching Connect in Canada? Maybe they had to use PureTracks to keep their music giveaway deal with McDonalds. Maybe Connect is running into some problems of its own... Like ITMS??
freemadc said:
That was actually noxes that said that.
But what you say seems to make sense. Why the holdup? For that matter, I don't know what the holdup with iTMS Canada is. Throw some Tragically Hip tunes and some Celtic stuff in and let us use the service.Squire
Agreed
The delay makes no sense. It's just silly. The service could have been available by now, although I am sure it would/will have a smaller catalog of music than the US iTMS.
Squire said:That was actually noxes that said that.
Squire
The delay makes no sense. It's just silly. The service could have been available by now, although I am sure it would/will have a smaller catalog of music than the US iTMS.
HoserHead said:
I first noticed it on PJ Harvey, Uh Huh Her - odd, since the version being sold at Amazon UK appears to be identical.
Other examples looking for version, us, uk, international etc. turn up Shania Twain, Come On Over; Paulina Rubio, Pau-Latina; Ute Lemper, But One Day...; Itzhak Perlman, Daniel Barenboim & English Chamber Orchestra, Bach: Violin Concertos (US/UK Version) ... and then I got bored with looking
i wasn't joking
For real, i wasn't joking.
anyways vancouver is a very nice city, but again, edmonton must be quite borring if there is a lot more to do in vancouver then edmonton, as compared to montréal, vancouver (aside from scenery) is quite the boring place.
anyways in case you still think i was joking in my other post, i really wasn't.
aethier
naim_merchant said:
For real, i wasn't joking.
anyways vancouver is a very nice city, but again, edmonton must be quite borring if there is a lot more to do in vancouver then edmonton, as compared to montréal, vancouver (aside from scenery) is quite the boring place.
anyways in case you still think i was joking in my other post, i really wasn't.
aethier
It just depends on what you want to do when you're in Edmonton. During the summer, there's a lot to do. We've got a huge river valley, a lot of biking trails (the biking is better here than in Calgary...you can be at a trail in 10 minutes, and you don't have to load your car up and drive anywhere to do it), a lot of festivals (more than just about anywhere else in Canada), a lot of restaurants (one of the highest per capita in North America), a lot of movie theatres (among the highest seats per capita in North America) and more live theatre than anywhere else in Canada, and possibly North America. We're home to the world's biggest mall, and it has an indoor amusement park.aethier said:
If you're willing to drive a little, there's a lot of camping and lakes within a couple hours of Edmonton. Jasper is only 4 hours away, if you like road trips.
Sure, there aren't a lot of big museums here, or grand churches or anything like that, but there's lots to do in Edmonton if you're that kind of person. Most cities seem boring after you've lived in them for a while. Even Vancouver is pretty boring after you've been there a few years. If you want to drink a lot and go to a lot of clubs, definitely go to Montreal, or Vancouver, or Toronto, but don't say that there's 'nothing to do' in Edmonton. You're just not trying.
RealityMonster said:
Are you sure about your festival assumption? montreal has loads of festivals also. such as the world famous Jazz festival. we have formula 1, (which was here this weekend, another win for shumacher)
Biking, lots of trails here, that are just as close (unless you want like nature trails and stuff, then just go half an hour north by car)..
lakes, nothing special to us, as we have probably the most lakes of any other region in the world, not to mention the highest concentration of fresh water lakes) if you are an outdoors type, then goto the now world known Mont Tremblanc (it has become so popular that we now have a small international airport half an hour north of it (in La Macaza) it takes airplanes from toronto, montreal, boston etc.)
cinema's, well we have loads of those too, my small city of 45000 ( i don't know if that is small to others, but to me it is) we have a 16 room cinema.
theater... i doubt edmonton is the capital for theater, probably montreal or toronto.
but you were right about the drinking and clubing thing, we have plenty of hot blonds to go around
plenty of clubs to meet them in, and plenty of bars to get drunk with them, and for our youth who starts drinking at 13-14, then we have plenty of parks for them to get drunk in without getting cought
aethier
Re: my city's better than yours
Hey, why don't you both get lives, move them to a city far away and continue your little bitch session there. We're talking about music, not playgrounds.
Hey, why don't you both get lives, move them to a city far away and continue your little bitch session there. We're talking about music, not playgrounds.
Duw!
You Canadians sure are nice people. Even when you're arguing you're still relatively polite people.
Any more news on that iTunes Canada.
Apparently, we have it over here now, but I left my mac at home today
You Canadians sure are nice people. Even when you're arguing you're still relatively polite people.
Any more news on that iTunes Canada.
Apparently, we have it over here now, but I left my mac at home today
Well, obviously, it's not there... It's European's party today, and Canadians can continue the way they used to do to download music...
harzack86 said:Well, obviously, it's not there... It's European's party today, and Canadians can continue the way they used to do to download music...
Hmmm...yeah, I suppose, eh? Well, I think I'll be paying a few visits to audiolunchbox.com and eMusic.com. (eMusic has a nice promotion on right now but I had trouble making an account. Interestingly, I got an email asking why I didn't complete the registration process. "I couldn't," I replied. And they're now working on it. Cool.)
Squire
Not anytime soon...
Clearly, there is not going to be an iTunes Music Store for Canada anytime soon. I mean, if you look at the lead-up to the European iTMS, Jobs and other Apple execs confirmed their intent to bring the store to market months before, making several quotes to the press that iTMS Europe would debut in 2004. Now, with the debut of the store for the UK, France and Germany, Apple has announced that a European Union store will debut in October of this year.
Nothing of that nature has been said about iTunes Canada. There have been no statements from anyone at Apple on the issue at all. The only thing we've heard is that Apple was in meetings with an agency representing Canadian songwriters in the fall of last year.
It now seems to be Apple's intention to make the contents of the US iTMS available to international users, rather than establishing a separate store (and music catalog) for each country. This could very well be the reason that it's taking so long to expand the store to other countries.
And that's too bad, really. I'd much rather have a truly Canadian version of the iTunes Music Store that showcased (and promoted) lesser-know artists in Canada, like buck 65 and Widemouth Mason. Sure, you've got the big-name exports on the American iTMS, but how much Alanis Morisette, Avril Lavigne, Sarah McLaughlin and Barenaked Ladies do you really want?
-c
Clearly, there is not going to be an iTunes Music Store for Canada anytime soon. I mean, if you look at the lead-up to the European iTMS, Jobs and other Apple execs confirmed their intent to bring the store to market months before, making several quotes to the press that iTMS Europe would debut in 2004. Now, with the debut of the store for the UK, France and Germany, Apple has announced that a European Union store will debut in October of this year.
Nothing of that nature has been said about iTunes Canada. There have been no statements from anyone at Apple on the issue at all. The only thing we've heard is that Apple was in meetings with an agency representing Canadian songwriters in the fall of last year.
It now seems to be Apple's intention to make the contents of the US iTMS available to international users, rather than establishing a separate store (and music catalog) for each country. This could very well be the reason that it's taking so long to expand the store to other countries.
And that's too bad, really. I'd much rather have a truly Canadian version of the iTunes Music Store that showcased (and promoted) lesser-know artists in Canada, like buck 65 and Widemouth Mason. Sure, you've got the big-name exports on the American iTMS, but how much Alanis Morisette, Avril Lavigne, Sarah McLaughlin and Barenaked Ladies do you really want?
-c
Canadian content
Might there be a holdup based on wanting a certain amount of Canadian content? It would be a good thing to have significant Canadian content. Regardless, it's a little disappointing not to have a Canada release of iTunes alongside the European version. Even more disappointing is the promise to make a European Union version of iTunes, but no mention of Canada. ~sigh~
I wish someone would come up with some substantial rumors (even negative ones offering explanation) of the iTMS Canada.
Might there be a holdup based on wanting a certain amount of Canadian content? It would be a good thing to have significant Canadian content. Regardless, it's a little disappointing not to have a Canada release of iTunes alongside the European version. Even more disappointing is the promise to make a European Union version of iTunes, but no mention of Canada. ~sigh~
I wish someone would come up with some substantial rumors (even negative ones offering explanation) of the iTMS Canada.
HoserHead said:
Yeah, I seem to recall reading that somewhere in the past. That makes it even more puzzling (and annoying) that iTMS is not available in Canada. I mean, they already have one Tragically Hip album (last I checked, anyway) on the US version. Throw a few more groups in there- ones that are not really popular in the US but fill arenas in Canada- and they're all set. They really wouldn't have to make many changes to the existing store. I really can't understand it. By the way, how does NAFTA fit into this? I thought it was a cinch to do business across the border.
Squire
I think we Canadians are just being toyed with... so friendly, so easy-going, so willing to have the iTunes store.
"We are as frustrated as you with the fact that iTunes Music Store isn't yet available in Canada," the CMRRA recently told an AppleInsider correspondent who was researching the subject. "We would be delighted to see them here." The whole story, from April 19, at
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=429
"We are as frustrated as you with the fact that iTunes Music Store isn't yet available in Canada," the CMRRA recently told an AppleInsider correspondent who was researching the subject. "We would be delighted to see them here." The whole story, from April 19, at
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=429
Maybe the problem is the french canadian side of things, getting enough french music. God knows it would be easy as hell to translate iTMS Canada English to French.
