http://www.engadget.com/2004/12/16/itunes-music-store-breaks-200-million-downloads/ Engadget Comments for iTunes Music Store breaks 200 million downloads http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2004/12/16/itunes-music-store-breaks-200-million-downloads/http://www.engadget.com/2004/12/16/itunes-music-store-breaks-200-million-downloads/Dec 19th 2005 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/12/16/itunes-music-store-breaks-200-million-downloads/http://www.engadget.com/2004/12/16/itunes-music-store-breaks-200-million-downloads/Dec 19th 2005 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/12/16/itunes-music-store-breaks-200-million-downloads/http://www.engadget.com/2004/12/16/itunes-music-store-breaks-200-million-downloads/don't want to get the pod people all mad, but real does sell songs that will work on (some) of the ipods, and they are higher quality, 192 vs. 128, the highest quality of all the stores actually.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/12/16/itunes-music-store-breaks-200-million-downloads/http://www.engadget.com/2004/12/16/itunes-music-store-breaks-200-million-downloads/
Come on people, those things will hold 5000+ songs. Everyone must be ripping all their store bought CD's. Who needs iTunes?]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/12/16/itunes-music-store-breaks-200-million-downloads/http://www.engadget.com/2004/12/16/itunes-music-store-breaks-200-million-downloads/
I've lost count of the number of people asking me about my iPod who think that in order to get music onto an iPod, they have to purchase it from the iTunes Music Store, not realising that you can just rip music from all your CDs.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/12/16/itunes-music-store-breaks-200-million-downloads/http://www.engadget.com/2004/12/16/itunes-music-store-breaks-200-million-downloads/
We iPod-owning Antipodeans don't seem to get asked these questions in ITMS-free Australia :-/]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/12/16/itunes-music-store-breaks-200-million-downloads/http://www.engadget.com/2004/12/16/itunes-music-store-breaks-200-million-downloads/its a jukebox for your mac that syncs with your ipod.
itunes is plenty useful without the store.
besides that - aac 128 quality is supposed to be equal to reals 192.
besided that, real player sucks and is a crappy company in my opinion. crappy streaming, crappy player, and crappy biz ethics.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/12/16/itunes-music-store-breaks-200-million-downloads/http://www.engadget.com/2004/12/16/itunes-music-store-breaks-200-million-downloads/
No, it's not, allofmp3.com has full CD quality downloads and it's about 30 times cheaper too.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/12/16/itunes-music-store-breaks-200-million-downloads/http://www.engadget.com/2004/12/16/itunes-music-store-breaks-200-million-downloads/
They ponder in mystery when I explain the wonders of their already existing CD collection.

And, yes, they don't know what the iTMS is in Australia.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2004/12/16/itunes-music-store-breaks-200-million-downloads/http://www.engadget.com/2004/12/16/itunes-music-store-breaks-200-million-downloads/
Because it's a completely illegal service. I'm not convinced that individual downloaders are breaking any laws, but Allofmp3.com almost certainly is (when the RIAA sues individual users, they're suing them for sharing, not for downloading, because it's the "copyrights" you're infringing - meaning you are distributing copies without authorization). So you may technically be ok downloading from them - or maybe not, IANAL - but you're on questionable moral ground if you actually believe in paying artists. The license that Allofmp3.com claims to have doesn't exist, and the organization they claim to have it from has said they're not authorized to license anyone to do what Allofmp3.com does anyway.

Maybe you don't care, in which case do whatever you want - I'm not gonna call the RIAA police on you. I'm just sayin'.

Of course, what Allofmp3.com does is exactly what I want a pay service to do (low prices, rip in a variety of non-DRM'd formats, pay per bandwidth used rather than per song), and if any such comparable service legally started operation here I'd sign up in a second. I'll never use iTMS or any other pay-per-song service with low-quality DRM'd files. I still rip all my CD's the old fashioned way for now (and I still buy new CD's to rip), mp3, no DRM, fairly high bit rates, VBR, using the latest LAME codec. Allofmp3.com's pretty much got all that exactly right, it's just a shame that it's not a legally sanctioned service.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:08AM