Posted by Woody on 01/01/06 12:35

Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:

> In article <1h8gjkp.14w4y5fxpos52N%usenet@alienrat.co.uk>,
> usenet@alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote:
>
> > To be honest, I have a few hundred CDs but don't have anything from
> > the iTunes store. In general most of them were picked up for less
> > than they would be on iTunes, and I don't get the restrictions on
> > what I can listen to them on.
>
> You can listen to music purchased from the iTunes store on any device.

If you want to go through hoops you probably can but it is a lot harder
than if you had an unprotected MP3.
I could play it on my car stereo but I would have to burn it to CD, then
rip it to mp3 and then play that, by which time it would have lost a lot
of quality.
Also I didn't say about which device I get to play it on, I said I don't
get the restrictions. If I buy a CD I can rip the tracks and put them on
my Mac, my PC, my powerbook and my tablet, my iPod, my wifes nano and
the iPod I use when playing the guitar. When I want to copy it from
there, I don't need to deauthorise it on one machine to copy it, I just
copy it.

If a track on a CD costs me about £1, then a track with restrictions
like from the iTunes store is worth (to me) about 35p, so they are
currently too expensive.


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Woody

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