Posted by The Rev Gaston on 01/01/06 17:14

Peter Ceresole <peter@cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Woody <usenet@alienrat.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> That seems like a lot of steps. I have stuff I have downloaded from the
> iTMS, using iTunes. To make a copy to play in the car (I don't have an
> iPod) all I do is to create a compilation in iTunes and burn that
> directly to CD. One step. It works fine and can be repeated ad
> infinitum. Quality is perfectly okay for listening in the car.

Too bad there's no easy way to burn the tracks to disk image, so you
don't have the nuisance of an actual CD.

I often buy individual tracks on impulse from ITMS, and last week I
bought a whole CD. I thought "that was easy - why don't I do that all
the time" - before I remembered that the reason is that I now have a
distinctly un-portable pile of protected files.

"Don't steal music". OK, but at least let me have what I bought.

G;


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