Album of the Week #31? (I don't remember)

ThingrueIstKRIEG · Trick Magnet Number of posts: 326 Age: 20 Registration date: 2008-12-02

foobar

ContraOneManBand · Number of posts: 430 Registration date: 2008-12-03

Kad wrote:

(cue YOU'D LIKE IT IF YOU KNEW HOW TO USE IT RIGHT etc, whatever)

DoubleL and Covert likely know how to use it, and yet they are still experiencing the exact type of constrictions placed on them by the app that I despise.

EDIT: And now you folks have opened up a giant can of RANT brand postage.

Force me to use .AAC? That's fine, I didn't want universal compatibility anyway.

Give me a 128 kb/s bitrate? Sure, it's not like 320 is considered the minimal quality in the modern age.

FairPlay? That's cool, I didn't want the music I pay for to be usable on anything except an ipod anyway.

Compatibility with any other online music purchasing service? Nope, because the vast majority (everyone except Sony and Real, but nobody uses Real so just Sony) use .WMA, which is very specifically not a supported file type for itunes or ipods. This is solely a business move, because only Apple is allowed to sell you music with their FairPlay .AAC format.

Want to use a variable bitrate? That's fine, but Apple is going to decide your average bitrate and apply it to the whole song. Never mind that almost every other application, free or otherwise, gives you bitrate flexibility.

It's legal to back up a DVD. It's legal to rip music to your PC. But not if you have to break a copyright lock to do it. Most industries function like this, and it's how the business market thrives. Reverse engineering has long, long been one of the best ways to improve a product. But with Apple, you can't reverse engineer their file format. You can't reverse engineer their media players. They all have copyright locks on every stage of the product, and Apple knows that the only way to then improve on their products is by breaking these locks, and has lawyers at the ready. What's more, only Apple can authorize a competitor to partake this reverse engineering, and to date that has only ever happened once: with a motorola phone that you've never heard of because it was nearly impossible to use after all of Apple's protection technology was embedded.

This ban on competition has created a perfectly monopolistic market where Apple can do whatever the hell it wants. Can you think of a single example in history where a company has actually forcibly removed features from a product it has sold you? Imagine Toyota coming to your house, entering your garage, and ripping the GPS out of the dash on your Corolla. Apple can do it, because they're trhe only game in town.

And now that you poor guys are ipod users, you can never switch. What, are you going to leave those $300 worth of songs on your PC, never to be used again? Because your next mp3 player won't support them.

What's more, even the Big Boys can't say no to Apple. The CEO of Warner Music can't say no to Steve Jobs. And Warner can't escape Apple's trap any more than you consumers can. Warner can't tell other media download sites/firms/services to break Apple's copyright restrictions, even though Warner holds those copyrights!

Sony BMG tried to beat Apple, too. The only way it saw possible? By being worse than Apple. We're all in trouble when the only way music producers around the world see to escape this monopoly is by further monopolizing. Can't beat a copy protection? Make more restrictive copy protection. This is the "let's sue everyone" industry, guys. This is the "VCRs will be the death of entertainment" industry. They're crazy, and they're in control of your media.

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ThingrueIstKRIEG · Trick Magnet Number of posts: 326 Age: 20 Registration date: 2008-12-02

seriously, winamp or foobar

it's not fat and bulky, isn't worthless, doesn't run as a ****ing system file, can play files that aren't mp3 or wma, isn't made by apple, is a better player overall, has more uses, and pretty much every other thing that you can imagine

itunes is absolutely worthless and i have no clue why people insist on using it

it's like dropping a hammer on your dick because you don't know where else to put it

Sam · Last edited by Sam on Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:03 pm; edited 1 time in total

I like winamp a lot, and all I did was plug my iPod into it and it recognized it instantly... it's a lot more flexible than iTunes, and it doesn't do that ****ing annoying thing where it plays the next song four seconds before the last one has even finished.

DoubleL · Subject: Re: Album of the Week #31? (I don't remember) Thu Apr 16, 2009 8:35 pm

I have a Zune...

POOPOO MCBUMFACE · Subject: Re: Album of the Week #31? (I don't remember) Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:04 pm

I took one look at the iTunes music player layout, decided it was annoying and unintuitive and bloated, and just stuck with winamp instead.
I now use winamp to play my music and iTunes to put it on my iPod and have never had any problems with this arrangement.

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Sam · Number of posts: 73 Location: shootan zombies Registration date: 2008-11-27

http://digg.com/microsoft/Sync_Your_Zune_with_WMP11_Winamp_MediaMonkey_iTunes

ContraOneManBand · Number of posts: 430 Registration date: 2008-12-03

DoubleL wrote:

I have a Zune...

I'm so sorry.

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CovertSushi · Subject: Re: Album of the Week #31? (I don't remember) Thu Apr 16, 2009 11:40 pm

Skythe wrote:

lol does Covert seriously use iTunes as his default music player

I've never had an actual problem with iTunes so I don't have a reason not to use it.

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Seraph · Subject: Re: Album of the Week #31? (I don't remember) Sun Apr 19, 2009 7:06 am

POOPOO MCBUMFACE wrote:

I took one look at the iTunes music player layout, decided it was annoying and unintuitive and bloated, and just stuck with winamp instead.
I now use winamp to play my music and iTunes to put it on my iPod and have never had any problems with this arrangement.

Exactly this.

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braindead2000 · Subject: Re: Album of the Week #31? (I don't remember) Tue Jun 09, 2009 11:32 pm

This whole time.

I didn't know those pictures linked you to rapidshare files.

fml.

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ThingrueIstKRIEG · Trick Magnet Number of posts: 326 Age: 20 Registration date: 2008-12-02

what's a rapidshare

you mean CLOWNTOWN?