Posted by Joel on 10/21/06 21:39

"Broadway Blue" <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

>Yeah, but why buy an AAC file from iTunes just to convert it to MP3? The
>DRM protection can be stripped from the iTunes AAC file with QTFairUse 6
>and played as an AAC file without using iTunes. So why re-convert an
>already compressed file, in to another format compressed file? Different
>forms of compression strip away different bits of information. So
>reconverting, whilst it may sound ok, is never best practice. My point
>was rather that any track available from iTunes (as AAC) is probably
>available in MP3 form somewhere. Buying an AAC file just convert it to
>MP3, doesn't make sense to me.

I hadn't yet heard about the new decrypter, but it looks like it's too
complicated to bother with. I often listen to my MP3 copies of even
the iTunes files I bought before version 6, because they use less of
my K6-2 CPU; when multitasking, AACs can be stressful. Also, my DVD
player only plays MP3 data discs, so if I want to burn them for that,
I need those MP3 copies available anyway.

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Joel Crump

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