Recent content by poondoggle

Hi All, I'm running 7B85 and new to OSX in general. I have all of my music stored on a Windows based fileserver and notice that every time I reboot my G5, I can no longer access my iTunes library. I do not want to copy the files to my library because I like having a central location for all...

I am not familiar enough with the DRM that Apple has imbedded into ITMS, but one thing that the music industry really seems to like about Windows Media Player 9 is the Digital Rights Management. It may be a daunting task for Jobs to convince them to allow Windows users the same access, but I...

Isn't that a bit prejudiced? Do you speak for Windows users and what their wants are? I recently purchased a PowerMac G5 and look forward to my first Mac, but I've been a PC and yes Windows user for a long time and I can tell you based on my time spent in forums like these there is an...

The ship date went from "on or before September 2nd" to August 29th. Looks like the end of August guys and gals.

My Apple store order says that my G5 Dual will ship on or before September 2nd. But I ordered mine about a week ago. Others who ordered on the announcement date might have a different date.

Yes it is. I think that given the option of allowing me to download music and then buying it versus never getting the money from me because I wouldn't have heard it, they would take the latter, but I do know that in many cases, people are not buying the music and just downloading it and that is...

Yeah I've never had a problem with people getting the money they deserve. The funny thing is that for me being able to get MP3's actually increased my music purchases by 10x. Before CD Now went under aka I might have been their number one customer. :) I think I purchased over 200 CD's in 2...

My problem with iTMS is that the songs are only 128kb. If I am going to pay $1.00 a song they better be CD quality. Otherwise I'm better off sampling songs via some P2P app and determining whether or not a CD is worth full purchase price.