Posted by Michelle Steiner on 01/01/06 17:28

In article <1h8hjeu.4tdq60t3h7x1N%usenet@alienrat.co.uk>,
usenet@alienrat.co.uk (Woody) 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.

True.

> 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,

I play it on my car stereo by burning it to a CD, and play that.

> by which time it would have lost a lot of quality.

Just converting it to MP3 loses a lot of quality.

Thing is that you don't have to use the iTunes music store to get music
for the iPod. You can download it from anywhere and load it into the
iPod.

> 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.

But if you want only one or two tracks from the CD, why pay for the
entire CD?

I'm originally from New York City. About a year ago, I was feeling very
nostalgic, so I searched the iTunes music store for songs about New
York, and downloaded about 35 of them. It cost me about $35 to do so,
but if I had to buy the CDs that those songs were on, it would have cost
me hundreds of dollars.

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