So for those of you who have legit music services, which do you think is the best one? It looks like most of them are under a buck per download anymore, so I guess what I'm wondering is about the music selection and the files themselves. Some of them seem to have burn limitations. Currently I'm looking at just using the musicmatch service since I already have an account with them. However, I want to make sure that I can drop this file onto my palm as many times as I want. Any advice?
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iTunes does a pretty good job and has a nice selection. RealRhapsody is alright, but I have to authorize my computer pretty frequently so I don't think I will get anything else from them. Haven't tried the others.
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Yeah I like iTunes a lot, but it's the only one I've tried so far. I don't know how it works for the other services, but if you delete the songs you download, then you have to pay for them again if you want them back. They aren't just permanently tied to an account of yours or anything, which really kind of sucks. But you can burn the songs to CD as many times as you want, or you can authorize up to 5 different computers to play the music you bought.
what about mp3 players? I frequently load new songs on my pda and what I'd really like to know is if I can do this an infinite amount of times, or just a limited amount.
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Here's some info directly from the iTunes help file...Looks like I gave you a bit of wrong info. It says that you can only burn to CD 7 times, and doesn't mention any other MP3 players than the iPod.
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The iTunes Music Store is a convenient way to add songs to your iTunes library. Anyone can browse the store and listen to samples of the songs that are available. If you'd like to buy a song, just sign in using your Apple or America Online (AOL) account ID and password, and click to buy the items you want to purchase. When you click Buy, the music is downloaded to your hard disk and imported into your iTunes library. (You can also choose to have the music added to a shopping cart instead of being immediately downloaded, or use an iTunes gift certificate, prepaid card, or allowance to buy music.)
If you don't have an Apple Account, you can create one in the iTunes Music Store. Or, if you've already set up an Apple Account on the Apple Store website, on .Mac, or in another application, such as iPhoto (available for the Mac only), you can use the same account to shop in the Music Store. You'll just need to verify your account information in iTunes the first time you sign in to the Music Store.
Before you can listen to your music purchases, your computer needs to be "authorized" to play music you've purchased. (Authorization is a way to help protect the copyrights on the music.) A computer becomes authorized the first time you set up your account, or when you enter your Apple or AOL ID and password to play a song that you purchased. However, you can only authorize and listen to your music purchases on five computers at a time. If you plan to sell or no longer use a computer, be sure to deauthorize it so you can authorize and listen to your music purchases on a new computer.
Purchased songs are encoded using MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format, a high-quality format that rivals CD quality. You can listen to AAC files in iTunes and on your Apple iPod (with iPod software 1.3 or later). You can also create your own audio CD containing songs you've purchased so you can listen to them on a consumer CD player. You can only burn seven copies of the same playlist to an audio CD when it contains purchased music.
The seven burn thing means you can only burn a playlist with the purchased song 7 times. If you've burned the playlist 7 times, make a new playlist and add the songs to it, 7 more burns. That limit's retarded, but its a quick workaround. The iTunes files can only be played in iTunes and on iPods, but if you want regular MP3s, burn them to a CD in iTunes and rip the CD to MP3 format and put them on your player
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devil wrote:
The seven burn thing means you can only burn a playlist with the purchased song 7 times. If you've burned the playlist 7 times, make a new playlist and add the songs to it, 7 more burns. That limit's retarded, but its a quick workaround. The iTunes files can only be played in iTunes and on iPods, but if you want regular MP3s, burn them to a CD in iTunes and rip the CD to MP3 format and put them on your player
I got a 2 month subscription to napster for xmas... It's pretty nice, but the thing that will keep me from renewing my subscription is the fact that napster does not support the iPod... the songs you download can be on up to (I think) 3 devices, incl. several MP3 players.. but the iPod doesn't support WMA, and napster is WMA-only so unless I can find a way to crack DRM9 (not likely) I'm outta luck...
and yes, you can remove all copy protection and convert to whatever format you like by burning to a CD then ripping.. but to me this is more trouble than it's worth... see my post on the subject: http://seek42/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=92429#92429
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