[iBook] File format

[Angus Wallace]

Oh yes, I was actually intending to answer your question. ;-)

If you burn an audio-cd with Roxio, you can tell it to include track names. This
might make it easier to reimport back to itunes.

Hmm. I'm not sure if Roxio will burn .m4p (DRMd) files... I don't have Roxio
myself.

In all honesty, your best bet might be to wait until the jHymn folks crack the
iTunes6 DRM. That, or download the albums you've bought via BitTorrent.

(note that I'm not encouraging you to do this - it's illegal)

-Gus

Quoting Angus Wallace <angus.wallace at flinders.edu.au>:

> 
> I think shopping at ITMS is a bad idea. Here's why:
> 
> If you want portable music (free from DRM), you need to reencode it*. This
> is
> bad, because everytime you encode it, you sacrifice quality. By reencoding
> the
> same music twice (once at ITMS, and once on your computer), you will end up
> with a file that sounds much worse than the CD.
> Apart from this it is a hassle.
> 
> Are you aware of the restrictions placed on files downloaded from the ITMS?
> (eg.
> can listen on 5 computers, etc). Did you know that these restrictions can be
> changed, retroactively, in the future? For example, next year Apple could
> come
> out and say 'now you can only listen to songs on one computer, and put them
> on
> 2 ipods', and that would affect all the music you've already bought. (I
> don't
> think this is particularly likely, but it *is* possible. What would happen
> if
> the record companies somehow got Apple over the barrel?)
> 
> As stated before, ITMS files aren't compatible with other players, because
> Apple
> hasn't licensed the protocol. The SONOS lounge-room player can't play them
> for
> example. No other portable player can play them either. Do you really want
> to
> tie yourself to buying Apple music devices forevermore?
> 
> Maybe some people are different from me. Maybe they think that music is
> truely a
> comsumable, and that in 5 years, they won't care about the music they have
> now.
> But if you do care, I suggest you consider this. (I bought Dire Straits - On
> Every Street in 1992, and I still love it)
> 
> These are the reasons that I won't buy music that has DRM (other examples
> are
> Harmony, Rhapsody - anything that says PlaysForSure - that's M$'s DRM
> scheme).
> I buy all my music from www.emusic.com, which sells independent music, in
> high-quality mp3 form. I know that the music I buy there can play on
> anything.
> 
> Sorry, this has become a bit intense, but this is a subject (that as a
> musician)
> I feel somewhat passionate about.
> 
> Cheers,
> -Angus
> 
> *jHymn can remove the DRM on music purchased on ITMS before iTunes6. If
> you're
> using itunes5 or earlier, you can use jHymn to remove the DRM.
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