Yep me too. The sound quality is terrible (128kb/s instead of 192kb/s and yes I can tell the difference). The prices are high. Why use it. I like Yahoo! Music good quality and price.
Weather you buy Apple products or use ITunes is not the point. The Zucker is an idiot, and is only doing all this smack talking just to get attention for his crappy little hulu.com -- and you 2 are buying it hook, line and sinker.
We ALL KNOW NBC will be going back to iTunes -- all they're doing is wasting everyones time.
To be fair, iTunes Plus music is 256kbps DRM-free AAC, and is now available for a ton of indie tracks as well as EMI, and no longer costs more (it's the same 99 cent price). At this point the only thing really preventing everything in iTunes from being in this same format is the other labels who aren't willing yet to follow EMI's lead.
Isn't a 128kb/s AAC encoded file generally thought to be about as good as a 192kb/s MP3 encoded file anyway? Not to mention that iTunes is moving towards 256kb/s AAC encoding.
However I do agree to a certain extent, I dislike downloading AAC as other programs and players aren't universally compatible with it to the same extent as MP3 files. For most of the population of iTunes users who dump stuff straight to their iPods it's probably fine though
@ Ignatius because, the article has nothing to do with sound quality (the second comment in this thread) and the first comment in the thread is ... well it's not a comment in the sense that there is no there there...
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The man has a valid point. I avoid iTunes and Apple products all together like the plague.
Yep me too. The sound quality is terrible (128kb/s instead of 192kb/s and yes I can tell the difference). The prices are high. Why use it. I like Yahoo! Music good quality and price.
Weather you buy Apple products or use ITunes is not the point. The Zucker is an idiot, and is only doing all this smack talking just to get attention for his crappy little hulu.com -- and you 2 are buying it hook, line and sinker.
We ALL KNOW NBC will be going back to iTunes -- all they're doing is wasting everyones time.
Uh... why did everyone downvote someone who was expressing their opinion about a company?
God forbid someone have an opinion without a bunch of fanboys freaking out and slamming down the - button.
To be fair, iTunes Plus music is 256kbps DRM-free AAC, and is now available for a ton of indie tracks as well as EMI, and no longer costs more (it's the same 99 cent price). At this point the only thing really preventing everything in iTunes from being in this same format is the other labels who aren't willing yet to follow EMI's lead.
Isn't a 128kb/s AAC encoded file generally thought to be about as good as a 192kb/s MP3 encoded file anyway? Not to mention that iTunes is moving towards 256kb/s AAC encoding.
However I do agree to a certain extent, I dislike downloading AAC as other programs and players aren't universally compatible with it to the same extent as MP3 files. For most of the population of iTunes users who dump stuff straight to their iPods it's probably fine though
I hadn't seen that LOLrus pic before. Where's his bucket?
@ Ignatius because, the article has nothing to do with sound quality (the second comment in this thread) and the first comment in the thread is ... well it's not a comment in the sense that there is no there there...