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Last iTunes post for now -- I promise!

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October 18, 2003 1:05:37 AM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums

Jark, admin of deviantART has a very good and thorough review of iTunes. Highly recommend you check it out.

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Reply #1 October 18, 2003 7:02:27 AM
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whoa. thanks for the post brad.
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Reply #2 October 18, 2003 2:17:58 PM
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Well, I decided to try iTunes out also. It all seems fine and dandy and very easy to use. I agree with Jark's review, but there were a few things left out of the music limitations. From what I discovered (and correct me if I am wrong) was:

1. Youre screwed > You can't transfer your purchased m4p/aac tunes to your player unless it's an iPod.

2. You're screwed > You can't convert your purchased m4p/aac tunes to the mp3 to then transfer to your mp3 player if you don't have an iPod. There is an option to 'convert to mp3' but it ends up just telling you that you are not allowed to perform this on purchased music.

3. You're not screwed You can only listen to your tunes on up to 3 pc's authorized with iTunes software. Home and work will probably be most peoples locations so this is an acceptable thing.

It seems to me, anyone with an older player (mine is an Archos Jukebox 10) you're going to be limited to listening to your purchased iTunes on your PC and not on the go (unless you use a portable CD player).

Just thought you'd like a little more info before you think about trying it. If I am wrong about the above, PLEASE let me know as I don't want to mislead anyone (and I wouldn't mind getting these tunes on my player).
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Reply #3 October 18, 2003 2:40:39 PM
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1) Youc an always just burn a CD and then rip the CD.


2) See # 1.


I bought the Weird Al album, downloaded it, burned a CD of it that I then ripped to MP3 and stored the CD like I would one I bought at the store.

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Reply #4 October 18, 2003 3:05:13 PM
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Aahh... cool Thanks Frogboy... though to me that shouldn't be necessary. I am off to make a few coasters
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Reply #5 October 18, 2003 3:17:24 PM
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I would like to point out to my American cousins that this is not avaiable to us here in the UK. Bummer! And it is definitely geared more towards the I-Pod and why not, seeing as its an Apple website and the I-Pod is an apple machine! Looks good though, and hopefully this will take off over here.
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Reply #6 October 19, 2003 8:58:50 AM
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As long as the music store isn't available outside US, this app is useless for me... anyone heard anything concrete about opening in more countries? I have a credit card burning in my pocket, but as long as they keep this US-only, I'll keep my kazaa installed...
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Reply #7 October 20, 2003 1:38:09 PM
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It's very lame that you can't play your downloaded music in other players! Sure you can burn it to CD and then rip it back to your hard drive just so you can play the song in Winamp 5, but is all the really necessary? It isn't necesarry at all.

Here is an interesting article that all iTunes users and all potential iTunes users should read. http://www.downhillbattle.org/itunes/
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Reply #8 October 21, 2003 8:00:25 PM
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This is exactly the thing which makes people go to the illegal sites.The new Napster and Musicmatch sites don't work with the IPod.Everybody wants their piece of the pie without considering the consumer.The next thing coming down the pipe is copy protected cd's which can only be ripped in WMA(Microsoft) format,and restrict the number of copies you can burn.The music industry should look at the skinning community for an example.You will never find a link on any of these music sites.
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Reply #9 October 23, 2003 1:23:37 AM
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I have all the "Mac" looks to my AMD machine, so I though tI'd give iTunes a try. I thought I might have a difficult time converting from WMP 9, but I didn't. I really like the interface and the EQ controls. The only down side I have found to this point is that is uses a huge amount of resources. At last check somewhere in the range of 30-40Mb and sometimes higher, compaired to 10-20 with wmp 9 Thats my only problem, other wise it works well for me.
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Reply #10 October 23, 2003 1:27:14 AM
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P.S. Great Link imtoomuch!!
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