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Sunnz · #9 January 7th, 2007, 03:18 AM

A question: is it not possible to convert the songs you brought to mp3 or something? (Sorry I have not brought anything on iTunes...)

Mikuro · #10 January 7th, 2007, 03:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Sunnz

A question: is it not possible to convert the songs you brought to mp3 or something? (Sorry I have not brought anything on iTunes...)

Not directly. Apple allows you to burn songs to a limited number of audio CDs, and since audio CDs are inherently unprotected, you can then convert those to mp3. Obviously, this is not practical for anyone with a significant number of tracks.

Other than that, there is no legal way to do it (actually, I'm not even sure the burn-and-rip method is legal, technically).

Lt Major Burns · #11 January 7th, 2007, 05:19 AM

it's not. also, movies bought off the iTunes Store are nigh-on impossible to convert. the only way so far is video-screen-capture, like snapz pro, which again, is really not practical. i can't think of any reason why i would want to buy a movie from itunes for the price of a dvd. i mean, it takes longer to download than it does to rip it from a dvd!

mindbend · #12 January 7th, 2007, 06:48 PM

I think Apple's dominance in this market is evidence enough for why it's important, from a business standpoint, to maintain control of the content (e.g. DRM). For Apple to license their DRM to allow other companies to sell MP3 players would be the single stupidest move Apple could possibly make. It makes no sense at all.

And the reason a lot of people (like myself) are more than willing to buy online instead of ripping discs is CONVENIENCE. Sure, ripping a music CD isn't terribly painful, but it's still ten times more effort then just buying them from iTunes (or wherever). Not to mention the landfill savings.

**fryke** · #13 January 7th, 2007, 06:56 PM

ten times more effort? I pop in a CD, it gets the track names from the 'net and rips the CD, done. I don't see how this is "ten times more" anything...

Thank The Cheese · #14 January 7th, 2007, 10:56 PM

My question is, if Apple were to lose this law suit, and have to open up their iTunes Store to all other MP3 players, would that mean all other online music stores would have to do the same?

Sunnz · #15 January 7th, 2007, 11:04 PM

I guess he meant getting your bottom off the chair to go to the shop and buy CD is "10x" more then click click click...

But again if you want to play the songs in your car or your nice home theatre then you still have to buy a blank CD so you can burn it anyway!!!

mindbend · #16 January 8th, 2007, 09:51 AM

Thanks Sunnz for backing me up. Exactly. You have to physically make effort to buy the CD. You also have to store it somewhere, taking up space. If you want to nitpick over the math, I suspect it's actually way more than ten times the effort.

Personally, in terms of the best possible listening experience, I'd take an LP over anything. Better headroom, smoother sound. I've A/B'ed LP versus CDs and vastly preferred LP. The problem is—it's inconvenient as hell. And that's what the entire iPod experience is. Convenience. Otherwise EVERYBODY would just buy CDs and rip them.