Comments on: Let’s Kill iPod and iTunes

By: Andrew110

Andrew110 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I have a Creative Zen Sleek Photo and couldn’t be happier. Works amazingly with Windows Media Player 11.

By: VdoNgneer

VdoNgneer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

There’s always a way to get around things. I discovered completely by accident that when you burn the Protected AAC files to a disk as a standard audio CD they lose their protection. I went to transfer the songs to my iPod and to my surprise the disk contents had no volume! What does this mean you might ask? Well iTunes does not recognize the contents of the disk so when I transferred the so-called protected AAC files back into iTunes they transferred as either standard AAC or MP3 files (depending on the default setting in the preferences). Once this happens then SURPRISE! You can transfer the files to any MP3 player. So do yourself a favor and invest in a CD-RW blank disk. Do the transfers then erase the disk until you’re ready to transfer the next batch of files. You can transfer up to 80 minutes at a time (the maximum capacity of the disk).

By: Andrew110

Andrew110 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

No offense but I think pretty much everyone here knew that already.

By: Burd

Burd — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Encodes it with my personal information? Excuse me? This is bullshit. When are they going to get over this total control thing? Aggressive attempts at total control are usually met with revolt and revolution and that’s what they’re going to get. I will continue to make most of my mp3 files using audio recording software; if it comes out of your speakers it can be recorded. In this new age of digital music files I am proud to say that I have not bought one single mp3 file. Subscribe to a music service or satillite radio and use your audio recording software (like Music Replay for example…Google it) and you have perfect mp3′s (but burn them to regular CD’s…they sound the best in that format; so you can’t have 1000 songs with you. Do you know how long it takes to listen to 1000 songs? You’ll be in another stage of your life by then!) And of course there’s still the old file sharing networks. Whatever I can’t get using the method I just described I still file share. Some artists like The Black Eyed Peas and other “super acts” are too good to put all of their songs on the music services. You get 15-second bites instead. So just go into file sharing and there they are! That’s my method right now. If all of this gets messed up I will adapt but I will NEVER buy a song on line. As VdoNgneer said “There’s always a way to get around things.”

By: Signa

Signa — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

burd’s right but you still have to give them credit for trying. i doubt that corperations will ever trust us enough to give us what we demand but they arent ignoring us and that is a good first step