Comments on: iTunes hits 250 million downloads http://thomashawk.com/2005/01/itunes-hits-250-million-downloads.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:09:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Sir Not Appearing in this Blog http://thomashawk.com/2005/01/itunes-hits-250-million-downloads.html/comment-page-1#comment-20791 Sir Not Appearing in this Blog Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:36:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=4423#comment-20791 As an addendum:<br /><br />I'm not opposed to the iTMS because of the DRM-I'm opposed to it because you pay full price for a compressed copy of the music. You don't even get a CD if you buy a full album!<br /><br />If they started offering their music in Apple Lossless (at current prices) I might be more favourably inclined to use the store. As it stands, the only stuff I've downloaded from them was the free political stuff they made available last year. As an addendum:

I’m not opposed to the iTMS because of the DRM-I’m opposed to it because you pay full price for a compressed copy of the music. You don’t even get a CD if you buy a full album!

If they started offering their music in Apple Lossless (at current prices) I might be more favourably inclined to use the store. As it stands, the only stuff I’ve downloaded from them was the free political stuff they made available last year.

]]> By: Sir Not Appearing in this Blog http://thomashawk.com/2005/01/itunes-hits-250-million-downloads.html/comment-page-1#comment-20792 Sir Not Appearing in this Blog Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:32:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=4423#comment-20792 You DO realise that only tracks purchased from the iTune music store have the DRM on them, don't you? Nothing you encode yourself will have DRM on it. Any MP3s, AAC or Apple Lossless files you create are clean.<br /><br />I've found iTunes to be an excellent library management tool. If you already have something which does this (I assume MCE does) and you don't have an iPod, then there's no real need for iTunes. You DO realise that only tracks purchased from the iTune music store have the DRM on them, don’t you? Nothing you encode yourself will have DRM on it. Any MP3s, AAC or Apple Lossless files you create are clean.

I’ve found iTunes to be an excellent library management tool. If you already have something which does this (I assume MCE does) and you don’t have an iPod, then there’s no real need for iTunes.

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