The Beatles Appear in iTunes Store

[SockRolid]

I know that guy

OMG. That's the guy from Wings!

 

[3282868]

650+ negatives. So you don't like the Beatles, oh well, but this is a pretty big deal given all the legalities Apple has faced with McCartney, Ringo and Yoko (who was pushing for the deal). Personally, I couldn't care less, but for those who do it's a pretty big deal that took almost a decade.

 

[Xenious]

no mono???

I'm secretly holding out hope for being able to buy the mono albums individually. All I want is Sgt Pepper in mono!

 

[BaldiMac]

You're 95% wrong. Beatles fans are probably the ones that find this the least exciting. Think about it.

Frankly, anybody who actually pays money for compressed music with DRM restrictions are retarted in my book. Why not just buy the CDs, and get a stable back-up source, real booklets, good sound quality (even if you don't own the hi-fi equipment to make the best out of it now, it's nice to be future proof) and the ability to compress the music with your own specs -- AND play it on CD players -- AND copy them to as many digital devices you want?

In Norway, those Beatles iTunes albums are actually more expensive than the CDs are in some stores (94 NOK vs 89 NOK). The only real use would be to buy single songs you're missing. I can get that. But to buy albums? So retarted!

Was hoping for a streaming service btw, very disappointed.

Beatles rules, I'm gonna listen to them now.

iTunes hasn't had DRM on music for more than a year. The rest of your point stands.

 

[goobot]

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Only Steve Jobs would get a boner over this.

Lmao

 

[baller1308]

Yawn....took The Beatles long enough to strike a deal, idiots.

 

[BlackMangoTree]

... You clearly don't know what you're talking about. Since trying to argue lossless vs constrained bitrates is obviously failing, let me provide a different logical explanation through economics: if it's too hard to hear any difference between lossless and lossy, why do these high end speaker/headphone companies stay in business? There's a reason we have JH13 and JH16's, Klipsch Palladium speakers, etc; it's because there IS a difference. Get some nice headphones or speakers, in fact, they don't even have to be THAT nice ($100-300 will easily show the differences), and compare. The difference between 320 and 256 is huge, and the difference between 256 and lossless is phenomenal.

You're are all over the place with that statement.

Do some ABX results, and see for yourself.

 

[whatever]

You know a lot of idiotic families then don't you?

"Oh my god, I've put the original CD in a box in the closet! I'll never reach it in time to just rip it to my iTunes account! Must waste money and download a lesser quality version! For every member of the household!"

Actually from what I've been told the sound quality of the original CDs are a less quality than the iTunes version.

And my point is that the CDs first goes to the closet, then the basement, then the trash. And in case you don't know, CDs do go bad over time....

 

[JS77]

Only Steve Jobs would get a boner over this.

Best comment yet! L M A O !

 

[SockRolid]

Now we all know. Get over it.

...
Yep, it all comes back to everyone EXPECTING something bigger
...

So now we know. If it requires a keynote, it's a new product (e.g. MacBook Air, iLife '11, etc.) And if Apple devotes its home page to it without a keynote, it's some kind of content deal.

Simple enough for you?

 

[essex sound lab]

650+ negatives. So you don't like the Beatles, oh well, but this is a pretty big deal given all the legalities Apple has faced with McCartney, Ringo and Yoko (who was pushing for the deal). Personally, I couldn't care less, but for those who do it's a pretty big deal that took almost a decade.

I think a large percentage of people that voted "negative" simply think it's jumping the shark to suggest that this is a day we will never forget.

Ah yes, the JFK assassination, man walking on the moon, and the day iTunes started selling Beatles songs...

 

[Popeye206]

Wow... I'm surprised at all the negative comments. But I guess the younger crowed may not appreciate how much the Beatles changed everything in music.

Yes... this was not some huge technology or new gadget announcement, but it's still cool. Now Apple has yet another asset you're not going to find on other networks and this one is a huge one. Good for Apple.

I'm sure we'll get more toys and technology soon.

 

[JAT]

I'm all for high-end audio but those JH Audio earbuds are nearly $1200. That's insane! Just give me a pair of Denon AHD 7000's or the Grado PS 1000's.

So $1200 is overdoing it for headphones, but $1000 is ok? Guess you drew the line!

 

[Puddinman]

Exactly!

And if you're buying a "collection", meant to last many years, you should be able to purchase it in something approaching archival quality.

If one truly saw a difference in having lossless files, then I don't understand why one would care about iTunes at all. I'm sure that person would buy Vinyl/CD (depending on their acoustical proclivities) and lovingly rip them into the lossless format of their choice. For that person, iTunes is a toy for the masses and not a serious way to build an audio collection.

 

[Nebulance]

I was secretly hoping for lossless tracks. I already own all the Beatles I need on CD and vinyl.

This is NOT exciting news for me.

same here... oh well.

 

[adztaylor]

650+ negatives. So you don't like the Beatles, oh well, but this is a pretty big deal given all the legalities Apple has faced with McCartney, Ringo and Yoko (who was pushing for the deal). Personally, I couldn't care less, but for those who do it's a pretty big deal that took almost a decade.

I made this point a few pages ago and it really needs reinforcing to people.

 

[Nothlit]

could they not just have done this announcement on the iTunes music store?
You put it on the Apple website people assume it'll have to do with computers or software.

With the fact they changes their home page i was expecting possibly ios 4.2 and yes i know about the wifi issue but the second gm build has already been released. I was also kinda hoping for the Verizon iPhone announcement i mean it would have made sense for either of those

You both fail at reading comprehension, then. The teaser page yesterday said "Check back here tomorrow for an exciting announcement from iTunes." What part of that makes you think it could possibly be a hardware and/or iOS announcement?

 

[Surf Monkey]

the fact that Apple have made more of a build up on their site about this, than any of their own products, it's not unexpected that people were getting this hyped...

Utter and complete hogwash. They didn't hype this more than their own products. They hardly hyped it at all. They devoted a graphic on their Web site to it for less than 24 hours. Anyone who classifies that as a big buildup or an example of an over exuberant hype machine in action is nothing short of delusional.

 

[SR2]

Michael Jackson had one good album in 1986. But then he had a producer miles better than any producer the Beatles ever had, and musicians helping him who were the best that money could buy at the time. And from that album on, it went downhill. A man who thought he could save the world and all the children and couldn't even save himself. Some serious talent wasted.

Jackson was nothing more than a child molesting drug addict homosexual with a unique (high pitched) voice. basically he sounded like a female child. With one decent album in 30 years and people like him?
The Beatles wrote their music played instruments and released the most important album of all time, but you people are too stupid to know anything before 1999.

 

[aggiesrwe03]

People who are angered by this are just ignorant to the value of having The Beatles on iTunes, the power of Apple's advertising, how promotion is done in the 21 century and how great and influential The Beatles still are.

I don't think its the fact that the Beatles are finally on iTunes that aggravates people (me for example) it's the fact that Apple is on the verge of a major release of iOS, not to mention all the other "things" they have been working on (mostly rumored of course) and they hype the release of a few albums like they did it is really kind of a buzz kill for lack of better term.

 

[HLdan]

650+ negatives. So you don't like the Beatles, oh well, but this is a pretty big deal given all the legalities Apple has faced with McCartney, Ringo and Yoko (who was pushing for the deal). Personally, I couldn't care less, but for those who do it's a pretty big deal that took almost a decade.

LOL, 650 is nothing. These negative morons here think they are gonna bring down Apple by posting negative stuff. Wait until the sales figures are put out about the Beatles. There will be millions of iTunes downloads for the Beatles collection vs. the lame 650 negative comments. Let them keep crying.

 

[Simplicated]

The Box Set is already filled with reviews made by naive and selfish kids.

 

[haruhiko]

I don't think its the fact that the Beatles are finally on iTunes that aggravates people (me for example) it's the fact that Apple is on the verge of a major release of iOS, not to mention all the other "things" they have been working on (mostly rumored of course) and they hype the release of a few albums like they did it is really kind of a buzz kill for lack of better term.

exactly.

 

[essex sound lab]

If one truly saw a difference in having lossless files, then I don't understand why one would care about iTunes at all. I'm sure that person would buy Vinyl/CD (depending on their acoustical proclivities) and lovingly rip them into the lossless format of their choice. For that person, iTunes is a toy for the masses and not a serious way to build an audio collection.

It's pretty simple really. I'm out of real estate for housing physical media, I play most things from a hard drive (yes, through decent DACs) and I'd like to purchase music online.

Is that really so hard to figure out?

 

[nemaslov]

Actually from what I've been told the sound quality of the original CDs are a less quality than the iTunes version.

And my point is that the CDs first goes to the closet, then the basement, then the trash. And in case you don't know, CDs do go bad over time....

I still have CDs from the mid 80s that are in perfect shape.

This is great that the Beatles are on iTunes because there are so many new buyers who simply don't buy CDs. Plus all the late night impulse buys. Many had Michael Jackson's hits already but he still had all the top ten downloads after he died. Anyway I still suggest buying the box set of CDs not the downloads. Amazon just lowered the price and it's about $30. less than these digital versions...And you get great packaging!!!