Re: Anyone else tried the online iTunes Music Store?

Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 17:42:25 -0700
Newsgroups: rec.video.production
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> >
> > Then again, I bet if we factored in inflation, Jobs is actually selling
> > these cuts at somewhere like a nickle a song in 1950's cash!
> >
> So, what is he getting for an album? 60 cents? Of course his distribution
> and manufacturing cost are nearly non existent.
>
> Can the music you buy from Jobs be played anywhere besides your
> personal I-pod? What if you I-pod (and/or your Mac) goes south? Can
> you redownload the your purchased tunes to the new device?
>
> Give me a 45 any day.
>
> David
According to the service, each download is licensed for THREE personal
music devices.
So there's some kind of serial management system so you can't just pay .99
and then feed all your friends MP3 players.
I haven't tried ripping a CD yet. Maybe that counts as a copystrike, I
don't know.
I do my online shopping on my studio G4. Then I use iSync to transfer the
tunes to both my iPod and my PowerBook.
So there's really not much chance I'll totally lose any of my purchased music.
As to what happens when I want to move stuff to a 4th computer or when I
retire one device and want to move my tunes to another, I don't know -
haven't tried it yet. Maybe you need to cough up another $.99 if you want
to feed three MORE devices.
For right now, it seems a pretty well thought out system and the REAL
strength is that it's FAST in both searches and downloads.
I even had a download crap out in mid-album on my first day. Next time I
logged into my "purchased music" library the first thing the software did
was re-initiate the download and complete my previous purchase.
IMO, Apple got a whole lot of this stuff RIGHT the first time.
--
Bill Davis
NewVideo
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