[iBook] File format

[Brian Olesky]

You end a downer rant like that with...Cheers?




On 2/28/06 1:04 PM, "Angus Wallace" <angus.wallace at flinders.edu.au> wrote:

> 
> 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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