[CUBE] itunes 4-Where to now?

[Eagle]

I can tell the difference.  MP3s (even at 160kbps) sound much worse 
than CDs.  I hope AAC is better.

Eagle

On Thursday, May 1, 2003, at 11:57 US/Eastern, akiang at att.net wrote:
> perhaps that might be true years down the line, but we're definitely 
> not at the
> point where downloading music can compete effectively with buying CDs 
> from a
> store.
> - most people in the US still don't have broadband.  (i think i read 
> in the NYT
> that 40% of people in the US still don't use computers!)  on a 
> dial-up, it
> takes about 5-10 minutes to download a 5-minute song via the iTunes 
> store and
> that's really tedious even for 1 song.
> - as it stands right now though, downloaded music (even from the 
> iTunes store)
> doesn't have the same quality as uncompressed music on a CD.  most 
> people may
> not hear a difference, but there are a number who do (or think they 
> do).