The limitations on music bought from iTunes

[Sean Gadoury]

In Canada, I bought the lastest Mars Volta for 7.99, but CDs can go as high as 25 or 26 if you go to HMV. It would be nice if there was uniformed pricing for hard copies, but this is impossible due to distribution and availability. I would always rather hunt around for a real copy of the CD since that way I have a full quality back-up.

I like to download music for free until I can obtain said copy. I make music for free and it's better than some **** you pay money for.

Plus, the limited edition of Amnesiac doesn't feel as cool if you download it.

 

[mfacey]

actually no.

If you go up to "Advanced >>> Get CD Track Names"

That only works if you burned your tracks exactly like they should be on the original album (so right order and everything). Doesn't work with any custom playlists you burn.

 

[Cinematographer]

If you go up to "Advanced >>> Get CD Track Names"

Is each and every iTunes CD on Gracenote CDDB as well? I'm not sure about that.

is there a way to burn a song to CD from itunes that was bought from the music store, and KEEP all the song information?

If you burn a Audio CD, the tag info is lost. But you could burn a Data CD/DVD. Then you could easily transfer the music with all the tags from one machine to the other.

 

[Applespider]

is there a way to burn a song to CD from itunes that was bought from the music store, and KEEP all the song information?

You could just drag the mp4 files from your iTunes library onto a CD in the Finder and burn a data CD. It won't play in a CD player but you can then just drag them into iTunes on your PC, authorise your PC to play the tracks and they'll play there.

 

[frankblundt]

actually no.

If you go up to "Advanced >>> Get CD Track Names"

... but ONLY if the cd you burnt is the same (like the whole album) as the commercial version. AFAIK "Get names" just queries CDDB for a matching track list. And i'm not sure that the downloadable albums are necessarily exactly the same as the Cd version, so they might not work either (haven't tried it yet) If it's you're own playlist you're burning it won't work.
[e] wow. waaay too slow typing that..

 

[eva01]

That only works if you burned your tracks exactly like they should be on the original album (so right order and everything). Doesn't work with any custom playlists you burn.

make the custom playlists after you burn it.

 

[Marky_Mark]

actually no.

If you go up to "Advanced >>> Get CD Track Names"

You're quite right, this doesn't relate to DRM. That'll teach me.

However, you can only get the track names if the CD you burned matches a pattern stored in CDDB - in other words, not for custom playlists.

The other thing is that if you burn an Audio CD, it'll show you the track names on the machine you burned it on because it keeps a record of what you've created, but if you try and read it on a different computer you get the Track 1, 2 etc nonsense because you lose the ID3 info when a 'data' track is turned into a 'audio' track.

EDIT: Just seen the other dozen posts to this effect above. Sorry...