Hi Graham,
No, if you only want to download podcasts, you don't need to provide
Apple with any financial details, as the majority of podcasts are
free, although you'll find a great many in the ITunes store, you'll
find hundreds if not thousands more all over the internet.
The same is also true for burning/importing CDs.
Hope this helps
With warmest wishes
James
MSN - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Skype - saulky1984
On 22 Jul 2008, at 21:07, graham wrote:
Hi,
As someone who's just gotten interested in Itunes do I understand it
that if you want to download podcasts only and have no intention of
buying tunes from the Itunes store which I certainly never will, you
have to set up an Itunes account and give Apple your credit card
details?
Does this also apply if you just want to load your own cd's in to
the library?
Sorry if I'm missing something here.
As for that chap being so obviously rude I only wish he'd said what
he did to me.
Kind regards
Graham
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Gilland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS
Xby theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: iTunes strange happening
Jude,
You're not alone my friend.
My mom's over paranoid and won't accept the terms for me. She
thinks that just because it asks for a credit card number to put on
file, that means I'm autojatically gonna be charged. I tolder no,
that is not the case, but she won't listen. So, I dono what to
do. I don't have Leopard, so I can't use back to my Mac, and have
someone remote into the system. Mike's gf and I tried IChat, but
my version in Tiger of IChat doesn't seem to wanna let me add
me.com addresses, but instead only .mac addresses. and AIM through
IChat wouldn't let us do it. Apple due to quote: legality reasons
won't remote in and help me. When I spoke with an ITunes product
store specialist, they said in there exact words: The law, is the
law, is the law. I asked them, when that part would be made
accessible, and they said, well, that's so minor of a thing, just
get over it, and get someone sighted, we could frankly care less to
fix that part. the guy was extremely rude. When I threatened him
with the ADA and told him, that by them not wishing to provide
access, was their right, but when they sit here and say since I am
blind, there is no reason for us people to use the ITunes store
when there are many other legal music download services that would
work... I told him, o, so, you're refusing purposefully to help
the blind with things like this... He then very directly, said
that is correct. Why should we? It's not worth us fixing it. We
got bigger accessibility things to deal with to make you all
happy. It's almost like he felt that we're doing them a burden by
making things so accessible. Boy did that make me lose a lotta
respect in them. I thought they were honestly doing it cause they
wanted to. Not because they had to. In any rate, I took this
complaint to my local nfb chapter, and I also took it to my local
ACB chapter. Both of which are looking into this to see what we
can do to fight this, and get that stupid window to be vo ready, as
both organization chapters down here agree if they could make
everything else work, then, this is stupid. why couldn't they make
this work. I even told them, when he said, well the way that
window works if we made it work, voice over would jump to it, but
then vo up down left or right would then skip over all the content
inside of it. I'm like, don't give me that BS. Have you never
heard of interacting with an item? He's like, ok, so you bought a
program that speaks to you what is on the screen? I'm like, no,
I'm using voice over. He's like, o, you talk to your computer.
OK, well, you need to go to the company who makes voice over so
they can help you more. I'm like, you! idiot? You all! make voice
over. It's built into your opporating system. This is why all you
Apple certified technitions know your products. And why, you all
clame to be committed to accessibility, thus, know your
accessibility products, or, have folks there who for once, do. O,
I was piss'ss'ssed!
I dono, yall got any comments on this?
Chris.
!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jude DaShiell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 9:25 PM
Subject: iTunes strange happening
I went to listen to an episode of the screenless switchers podcast
earlier tonight. First time I had tried that with this version of
Itunes. I got asked for credentials so gave the iTunes store
my .mac address and password and was told those credentials had
never been seen by the store before; then I was given the option
to review my credentials or cancel so I hit the review button
because I didn't want to cancel the listening session. Strangely,
my credentials and account did not appear on the screen again, but
the screenless switchers podcast began to play. I'm pretty
certain I still don't have an iTunes account nor will I have one
until someone gets through that captta for me but this was an
interesting thing to have had happen.
