Sony set to fulfil iPod killing dream – Prepares PSP music download service
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Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:28
tyrion wrote:
No it's not a driver, it's not solely a store either. It's a music management, player and playlist editor. It also happens to allow you to connect to Apple's online music store, coincidentally called iTunes music store.
The player software was around well before the online store, so was the iPod. The three are not joined at the hip,they just work together in that Apple "just works" kinda way.
well color me retarded! ( i imagine the color of retarded to be a tiled image of george dubya bush)
thanks for the education. i was under the belief that the itunes store was released simultaneously with the ipod hook up software/music emanagment software. I still do not agree with putting the lock on the itunes music but its not as bad as i thought.
also i was wondering if you are able to remove music from your ipod to a different computer, because i thought that that was a limitation. Itunes music or not i didnt think it would copy stuff back on to my hard drive from a friends ipod. (isn't that what that fairplay software is for?) please feel free to further prove my ignorance if that is indeed the case.
thanks.
p.s. im not attempting sarcasm, i really just don't know.
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Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:48
LUPOS wrote:
well color me retarded! ( i imagine the color of retarded to be a tiled image of george dubya bush)
Now that made me laugh!
LUPOS wrote:
thanks for the education. i was under the belief that the itunes store was released simultaneously with the ipod hook up software/music emanagment software. I still do not agree with putting the lock on the itunes music but its not as bad as i thought.
I think it makes sense. Apple would never get any buy-in from the music publishers without it. Hence there would be no store.
LUPOS wrote:
also i was wondering if you are able to remove music from your ipod to a different computer, because i thought that that was a limitation. Itunes music or not i didnt think it would copy stuff back on to my hard drive from a friends ipod. (isn't that what that fairplay software is for?) please feel free to further prove my ignorance if that is indeed the case.
thanks.
thanks.
While trying to piece together the facts about the FairPlay DRM scheme, I found this from Apple's website which just explains it all.
Apple wrote:
The iTunes Music Store lets you quickly find, purchase and download the music you want for just 99˘ per song. You can burn individual songs onto an unlimited number of CDs for your personal use, listen to songs on an unlimited number of iPods and play songs on up to five Macintosh computers or Windows PCs. And the iTunes software works so smoothly on both platforms that you can share music with any combination of Macs and Windows PCs on a local area network — regardless of whether you’re running iTunes on a Mac or PC.
Apple iTunes Music Store
If you want to be "naughty" about it, I'm sure you could burn the music to CD as CDDA, then re-rip it to whatever format you chose and then share it with a few million of your closest friends.
Not that I would ever encourage you to do this, of course. Besides being illegal, the quality will always be less than a direct rip since Apple only do AAC@128kbps (equiv. to MP3@192kbps apparently). I personally rip my music using VBR with a high quality, quality and low size - nice.
Fri, 4 Feb 2005 10:59
HUMM has anyone not thought they already do this and have done for about 2 months now
Sony CONNECT = iTUNES (Killer)
does no one own a Network Walkman
Sony CONNECT = iTUNES (Killer)
does no one own a Network Walkman
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No it's not a driver, it's not solely a store either. It's a music management, player and playlist editor. It also happens to allow you to connect to Apple's online music store, coincidentally called iTunes music store.
The player software was around well before the online store, so was the iPod. The three are not joined at the hip,they just work together in that Apple "just works" kinda way.
Nothing prevents you from downloading MP3s or AACs from other stores, or ripping them from your own CDs and importing them into iTunes then putting them on your iPod. It's not as if the only music you can put on there is music sold by Apple.
DRM is another matter. Music bought from iTunes music store can only be played in iTunes (on a Mac or PC) or on an iPod.
iPods aren't limited, iTunes software isn't limited, but to make sure they aren't used as a piracy vector, Apple put DRM into the music sold through iTunes Music Store. Sounds reasonable to me.