iTunes going DRM free - finally!

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iTunes Plus has been around for a couple of years, it just wasn't promoted very well and didn't have a lot of content available. The difference is that today they've bumped up the content to include about 8 million songs in the Plus format.

Too bad they're still offering AAC files only and you need to use the clunky iTunes software. I'm sticking with Amazon.
 
The Wizard Of OZ said:
Care to elaborate Rick?
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Hang on, let me get another beer... :)


Just simple economics -- right now, the economy is in the dumps -- that is generally a buyers market. More choices, less dollars to pay.

Music, movies, TV, DJs, etc., are all luxury (discretionary) spending. In a downturn, people focus on necessities (food, fuel, etc.), not luxury things. So, the sellers of luxury items/services, have to adjust their prices and policies to match the demand (except Cap :D).

Once the economy picks back up again -- it becomes a sellers market.
 
Well, that may be the case, but I see it more as a trend and I don't see the prices going back up. I think mp3 prices are going to go down even more.
I could be wrong . . .
 
I've been using iTunes plus whenever I can, but still the only way I can turn the files into a usable MP3 file for VDJ is to burn them to a CD and re rip them. Has anybody found a solution to this?

Also I know there is a way to do the same thing with iTunes music videos, somehow convert them and make them usable in VDJ, if anybody knows how to do this I've been trying to find out how for quite some time.
 
iTunes has a function named "create mp3 version" when you right click on an owned AAC file. It bumps a 256K AAC file to a 320K MP3 which overshoots the slightly better AAC algorithm, but is MUCH better than the loss of quality from burning to a CD and ripping to back.

However, Virtual DJ works fine with AAC files, so there is no need to do this if that's the only issue.

There are many options for converting the M4V files, but I don't have any experience playing video through VDJ so I will leave that to someone else.
There is
 
scharris_99 said:
iTunes has a function named "create mp3 version" when you right click on an owned AAC file.
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It does? Since when? I know you could always make your own mp3's, but what you have above goes against Apple having had DRM until now. Makes no sense to me...

Where is this feature located, and in which version?

I am not saying you are wrong, but I am saying it doesn't seem to make sense. ( and it muist not always have existed ). I've been using iTunes since version 2.x
 
Ha!! Nice try Apple.

Your still not going to get me to put your crap on my PC.....

No I-Tunes for this guy
 
No friken I tunes for me either! I installed it a couple years ago on one of my XP computers and removed it shortly after. Apple loooooong ago was an uderdog fighting "THE MAN". Then they began using the microsoft playbook and took it to another level. Overpriced, overhyped marketing machine is what they are. They won't get any of my money. I'll be buying my music from amazon and off ebay or local stores. Apple can kiss my grits. I don't need to belong to any cults.
 
I love it when a company becomes successful, suddenly they are a "cult" or a "sell out".

Would any one of us not want to make more money or be more successful in what we do? And if we do, are we too then sell outs?

I applaud Apple for making this decision. So what if it is because of economic reasons or if it because they listened to customers. Does it matter what the reasoning behind it is? Does it matter if they "used Microsoft's playbook?" Can any of us really say we have never taken an idea from someone more successful than us and used it on our own businesses? If you have, then you are being completely hypocritical in criticizing Apple for doing the exact some thing.

They saw a problem with one of the their most popular products and took steps to remedy the situation. Is that not what each and every one of us strives to do to be better business people?

Just because they are a multi-million corporation does not mean their business strategy is any different than yours or mine.
 
Papa Deuce said:
It does? Since when? I know you could always make your own mp3's, but what you have above goes against Apple having had DRM until now. Makes no sense to me...

Where is this feature located, and in which version?

I am not saying you are wrong, but I am saying it doesn't seem to make sense. ( and it muist not always have existed ). I've been using iTunes since version 2.x
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I was wrong..... once. :)

This function exists in the current iTunes version 8, right click on any non-DRM AAC file (with the keywork here being non-DRM) such as one ripped to AAC or iTunes Plus (note that iTunes Plus is non-DRM), select "Create MP3 Version" and watch the magic happen. :)
 
Still does not beat buying the CD and ripping at my own preference.
I love iTunes Store but hate itunes. It is an aweful program.
the more updates it has the more of a resource hog it becomes.
I have deleted it and installed version 6. Works for what I need and does not have that horrible Gapless Playback scan all the time.
 
DRM was fashionable when the paid downloading scheme was getting off the ground. It was an incentive to get more licencees on board. DRM isn't infallible, it never was. It was marketed as a deterrent to pirating moreso than anything else.

DRM is no longer needed. Amazon sells an MP3 that doesn't have to be "converted". Why shouldn't Apple/iTunes? As Pat mentions, they have to compete with the rest. If Amazon is allowed to sell DRM-free downloads, Apple should be allowed to do the same.
 
MC Johnny Cruz said:
Still does not beat buying the CD and ripping at my own preference.
I love iTunes Store but hate itunes. It is an aweful program.
the more updates it has the more of a resource hog it becomes.
I have deleted it and installed version 6. Works for what I need and does not have that horrible Gapless Playback scan all the time.
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The scanning you were seeing was because you had enabled the sound leveling option at some point. (It may have been set as default in some version.) Disable "sound check" under edit, preferences, playback and there is no scanning.
 
I wouldn't write I-Tunes off so flippantly.... sure you can get some music downloads from Amazon and other sources but, none have near the library that I-Tunes has nor do they get the new music nearly as fast.

I don't like Apple computers anymore than the next guy but, when it comes to music and legitimate down loadable music I-Tunes has the vast majority beat hands down like it or not.

This move is huge and mark my words it will catapult I-Tunes head and shoulders above any other service.
 
jokerswild said:
I wouldn't write I-Tunes off so flippantly.... sure you can get some music downloads from Amazon and other sources but, none have near the library that I-Tunes has nor do they get the new music nearly as fast.

I don't like Apple computers anymore than the next guy but, when it comes to music and legitimate down loadable music I-Tunes has the vast majority beat hands down like it or not.

This move is huge and mark my words it will catapult I-Tunes head and shoulders above any other service.
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I have no problem with Apples music store -- it's the iTunes software that sucks :sqerr:

It even sucks on my Mac :sqeek:

If they would let you just use a regular browser, without all their sheenanigans, I'd probably buy some from them too... But, as long as it's locked into their software -- no go.
 
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