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The Beatles Appear in iTunes Store

Now I know where I am going to spend the money that I don't have. They could have negotiated with a more important artist like the estate of Frank Zappa. How incredibly boring, as much as I like some Beatles stuff I already own it. No need to spend another several hundred dollars on something I bought 15 years ago.
 
tblrsa said:
I second that, i´d love to have them lossless too. Apple, adress this issue soon. Glad the Beatles are now on iTunes, not a letdown for me at all.
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Having lossless will allow anyone to convert to the file format of their choice. Some people don't want AAC some prefer MP3 ect.

The fact that at least were i am the iTunes Store is far more expensive than buy the actual cd, a cd i can rip to any format i like.


Apple are you listening we need lossless and much much cheaper pricing in the Australain store.
 
glossywhite said:
I am not "dude", "blud", "bruv", "cuz" or "man"... ugh!

Do you wannabe American? do you really really wannabe? Look around you, and then think hard... uhhhm, possibly not.
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Blimey bloke, are you an old geezer then... or just a young wanker? Pip pip, cheerio and all that rot. Eh what, guv'nor?

Seriously... perhaps you're not exactly the epitome of intellect, or even a semi-adequate role model which your fellow countrymen would choose to represent the "Empire" either. [much of your other posts have been filled with similar twaddle... perhaps the result of watching too much television. If you think you "know" all about Americans, you're sadly mistaken. I don't even try to make that claim... and i live here.]

Besides, what would the "British Invasion" have sounded like if they didn't have Elvis, Muddy Waters, Freddie King, Albert King, Bobby Bland, Lightnin' Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, Willie Dixon, [etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.,] to copy from? Are you under the impression the Rolling Stones invented rock&roll or something? If it wasn't for hard-ass American blues/rock of the 50's... you'd still be listening to something like Herman's Hermits or the Dave Clark Five.

Just check with Eric Burdon, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page if you don't believe me.

[and i'm sure the last thing you want to do is look back, because —when we hit WWII —it's all over for you. Ach du lieber!]
 
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while I am not so thrilled with the hype, i can still see where Apple is coming from. after years of legal entanglements with the band & its label (& criticisms about the iTMS for its lack of Beatles content), Apple must have really felt that this is such a big deal to warrant the hype surrounding the announcement.

and the conspiracy theorist in me suggests that the the over-hyped announcement was one of the band's conditions in entering into the agreement with Apple.

& for the record, I am a beatles fan & I actually have the box set that they released last year, among other things associated with the band.
 
mannix87 said:
while I am not so thrilled with the hype, i can still see where Apple is coming from. after years of legal entanglements with the band & its label (& criticisms about the iTMS for its lack of Beatles content), Apple must have really felt that this is such a big deal to warrant the hype surrounding the announcement.

and the conspiracy theorist in me suggests that the the over-hyped announcement was one of the band's conditions in entering into the agreement with Apple.

& for the record, I am a beatles fan & I actually have the box set that they released last year, among other things associated with the band.
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It was never over hyped by Apple. Apple simply placed this unforgettable ad on their page and the over hyping was done by media and people expecting way to much from the iTunes store. Some people in this thread admitted to losing sleep over it and that is extremely sad.
 
hexonxonx said:
It was never over hyped by Apple. Apple simply placed this unforgettable ad on their page and the over hyping was done by media and people expecting way to much from the iTunes store. Some people in this thread admitted to losing sleep over it and that is extremely sad.
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Agreed. If it was something truly game-changing, they wouldn't announce it with a stupid post on their Website. People over-hyped it, not Apple.
 
lmao! so all of a sudden everybody's a Beatles fan?! Apple is getting seriously lame and boring beyond belief but one thing you have to give them credit for is for brainwashing everybody by making them believe you absolutely need to buy the Beatles just because its on the itunes store. I'm sure 50% of the people on her claiming they will buy the beatles now that its on itunes never actually tought about getting the albums or by now they would have done so.

as for me personally, i don't like the beatles and never will. second Apple is becoming more boring and lame every-time they announce something, what a pathetic company its becoming
 
hoefler said:
lmao! so all of a sudden everybody's a Beatles fan?! Apple is getting seriously lame and boring beyond belief but one thing you have to give them credit for is for brainwashing everybody by making them believe you absolutely need to buy the Beatles just because its on the itunes store. I'm sure 50% of the people on her claiming they will buy the beatles now that its on itunes never actually tought about getting the albums or by now they would have done so.

as for me personally, i don't like the beatles and never will. second Apple is becoming more boring and lame every-time they announce something, what a pathetic company its becoming
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Its funny as they are becoming more pathetic they are becoming more successful.
 
hoefler said:
lmao! so all of a sudden everybody's a Beatles fan?! Apple is getting seriously lame and boring beyond belief but one thing you have to give them credit for is for brainwashing everybody by making them believe you absolutely need to buy the Beatles just because its on the itunes store. I'm sure 50% of the people on her claiming they will buy the beatles now that its on itunes never actually tought about getting the albums or by now they would have done so.

as for me personally, i don't like the beatles and never will. second Apple is becoming more boring and lame every-time they announce something, what a pathetic company its becoming
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News flash.

The Beatles have more fans in the history of music. Nothing new. So lame that your on an Apple board posting your ingnorance.
 
nemaslov said:
I have about 8,000 CDs (and many vinyl LPs). Been collection CDs since the beginning 84 or so. In that entire time I have had maybe two CDs go bad or chip away and maybe five or so that I scratched an ruined. Never had a problem with any others. I've been loading them on Hard Drives at lossless for a few years now. A long way to go as I only have about 60,000 songs loaded so far. I probably have purchased 200 songs from iTunes but if I find I really want the music, I'll buy the CD for the better quality. Even used copies for 3 or 4 bucks which is far cheaper and better quality. You can find great used deals via Amazon from third parties.
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Most people don't take as good care of their CD's as you most likely do, i.e. keeping them in their original jewel cases (rather than sleeves that will cause disc rot by abrasion of the label surface every time you remove/insert them), handling them carefully, etc. I had CD's from the 90's go bad on me within 5 years. But by 2004-2005 I think I pretty much eliminated use of CD's entirely, and by 2008, DVD's. My next step is to go to SSD storage to eliminate risk of data corruption due to drive head failures, overheating, etc.

As far as fidelity, dithered 16-bit Linear PCM CD Digital Audio is pretty mediocre to begin with. It's not hard to reproduce the clarity with 256 Kbps AAC as it's a perceptual coding schema which greatly reduces the amount of data required to reconstruct the same audio information so faithfully that AES engineers can't tell the difference.

If however you told me that you had DVD-Audio in 24-bit, 48 or 96kHz, that were recorded, mixed and mastered at 24 or 36 bit... and it was all highly dynamic material like classical music or jazz, then I'd agree as to the benefit. 24-bit LPCM has a dynamic range of 140dB versus 16-bit's 96.7dB, and vinyl's roughly 80dB. 24-bit LPCM requires no dithering to avoid quantization interval error, and sampling above the Nyquist limit (44.1kHz) is fundamentally unnecessary as a 20kHz lowpass filter applied during the mastering stage will essentially act as an anti-aliasing filter.

As a rule, I master my own music to a 24/48 format, but for 99% of my listening, 256 Kbps AAC is much more than sufficient, even for supleratively mastered popular recordings, Peter Gabriel's "So" being an excellent example. For classical and jazz, I do try to seek out 24-bit recordings but more importantly than anything I seek out copies of the original issues (even on iTunes) rather than remasters or greatest hits, because you'll invariably run into the problem of amplitude pumping on any music that's been remastered since 1989.
 
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tigres said:
News flash.

The Beatles have more fans in the history of music. Nothing new. So lame that your on an Apple board posting your ingnorance.
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oh no someone on macrumors thinks i'm lame...did my world just collaps!?...


i couldn't care less if the beatles have loads of fans, all i know is that i'm not one of them...but hey if you like to listen to a bunch of overrated guys looking like the walking wounded after an explosion in a fancy dress shop. by all means go ahead
 
hoefler said:
oh no someone on macrumors thinks i'm lame...did my world just collaps!?...


i couldn't care less if the beatles have loads of fans, all i know is that i'm not one of them...but hey if you like to listen to a bunch of overrated guys looking like the walking wounded after an explosion in a fancy dress shop. by all means go ahead
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If don't care why are you here?:rolleyes:
 
hoefler said:
lmao! so all of a sudden everybody's a Beatles fan?! Apple is getting seriously lame and boring beyond belief but one thing you have to give them credit for is for brainwashing everybody by making them believe you absolutely need to buy the Beatles just because its on the itunes store. I'm sure 50% of the people on her claiming they will buy the beatles now that its on itunes never actually tought about getting the albums or by now they would have done so.

as for me personally, i don't like the beatles and never will. second Apple is becoming more boring and lame every-time they announce something, what a pathetic company its becoming
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Says the guy with 100% negative comments about Apple in his post history since day one. Why become a Mac user? You've complained about everything since you bought it. Apple obviously brainwashed you into believing you needed a Mac. :rolleyes:
 
Gonzo3333 said:
Now I know where I am going to spend the money that I don't have. They could have negotiated with a more important artist like the estate of Frank Zappa. How incredibly boring, as much as I like some Beatles stuff I already own it. No need to spend another several hundred dollars on something I bought 15 years ago.
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Zappa was great, but the suggestion that he's more important than The Beatles is foolish, as is the claim that Zappa would sell better than the most popular rock band of all time.
 
HLdan said:
Says the guy with 100% negative comments about Apple in his post history since day one. Why become a Mac user? You've complained about everything since you bought it. Apple obviously brainwashed you into believing you needed a Mac. :rolleyes:
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if there's negative comments then there probably is a reason for it, unless you like paying 5000$ for a computer with a faulty graphics card, and yes a large % of apple's mac pro's have faulty graphic cards and they know about the problem but don't do anything about it, so as a paying customer i think i have the right to be a bit negative, but i guess when youre a fan boy its different then everything with an apple on it is great.

and no, apple didn't brainwash me, apple tricked me into making them believe they actually had good and descent products...turns out they are more a toy and icrap making company than anything else

anyway back to the the hippy crap
 
BlackMangoTree said:
Thats a massive issue i feel, Apple need to start offering lossless.
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agreed. its the only reason i dont use itunes to buy tracks. imagine how nice it'd be though if you could just click and buy lossless tracks. already ripped, cd art, named, etc. all ready to integrate w/ itunes and the ipod
 
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