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Subject: Re: Music Downloading
At 04:53 PM -0700 05/21/2005, Dennis B. Swaney wrote:
At 99 cents per song or less than $10.00 per album, Apple's iTunes
Music Store is the best value and the cheapest around IF you want to
OWN the music.
You don't OWN the music.
This is absolutely and unequivocally NOT TRUE. You *do* own the music
and can burn it to CD and keep it FOREVER (indeed, you are EXPECTED
by Apple to back up your music purchases to audio CD -- they
EXPLICITLY tell you so MULTIPLE TIMES in the fine print of their
agreements!).
At least it's a loose-DRM, tho - so you can convert the
tracks to mp3 or other formats without any significant loss.
Again, this is utterly incorrect. You can "convert" the track to any
format you'd like -- lossy or LOSSLESS. It's YOUR TRACK, do what you
want with it (within the boundaries of the law).
Now, some would argue that the AAC 128kbps format chosen by Apple for
delivery of the music is less than truly CD quality. I can't argue
with that at all, but would say only that it's pretty close to my
ears. Could it possibly be better? Yes. Is it more than adequate
enough for 99% of consumers? Again, yes.
But this idea that you can't convert your purchased tracks into other
formats is UTTER NONSENSE and is only spouted by people who really
have NO idea what they're talking about.
IOW, they're missing so much they sound terrible when
pumped thru a good set of speakers.
No they don't. I have EXCELLENT speakers around the house (among
other jobs, I'm a music critic who often writes reviews of live
classical and opera performance -- I know good sound when I hear it).
The songs purchased from iTunes are, as you correctly point out, not
quite CD quality -- and certainly small flaws CAN be detected when
listening carefully on good speakers -- but again, most people do not
have "audiophile ears."
It's complete rubbish to say that they "sound terrible." Compared to
what? MP3s? Don't make me laugh. When it comes to compressed music,
AAC sounds considerably better than MP3, particularly on the midranges.
You're just parroting blather you picked up from snotty-nosed hi-fi
types who can't imagine listening to music with less than $6,000
worth of equipment. It's a bunch of malarkey and good old-fashioned
MS-style FUD -- nothing more and nothing less.
_Chas_
FL-MUG: central Florida's Macintosh User Group.
Meetings: second Thursday of the month, 6-9pm,
at the Orlando Science Center.
http://www.flmug.org
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