http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/ Engadget Comments for Apple officially says it's the #1 music retailer in the US 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/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/Apr 3rd 2008 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/Apr 3rd 2008 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/Apr 3rd 2008 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/
Do you even know what fascism is? Because I have a feeling that if you did, you wouldn't throw it around so freely while describing a hardware/software manufacturer.]]>Apr 3rd 2008 4:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/Apr 3rd 2008 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/
If they released their DRM they wouldn't be number 1.]]>Apr 3rd 2008 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/Apr 3rd 2008 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/Apr 3rd 2008 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/Apr 3rd 2008 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/Apr 3rd 2008 11:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/
Amazon didn't remove the DRM. The labels allowed Amazon to do it to bring down Apple's monopoly. Apple was calling for DRM-free music long before iTunes Store was a major player. Warner's CEO even called Jobs a fool for suggesting such a thing, just to give DRM-free tracks to Amazon months later.]]>Apr 3rd 2008 3:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/Apr 3rd 2008 3:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/Apr 3rd 2008 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/
have you seen their latest mac ads, their a joke. nothing but vista bashing yet again.

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So long as it's not crappily encoded, low bit-rate garbage. ]]>Apr 3rd 2008 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/
If a normal audio CD is, say, ~500MB at $14, then buying 4MB of song data from Apple should be.... 11.2 cents!!

Why are people paying 99 cents?? Apple, stop taking artists' bits!!]]>Apr 3rd 2008 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/Apr 3rd 2008 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/
So no, Jobites. I wasn't bashing Apple. In fact I credit them for pioneering the digital download store for the mainstream the way they have. ]]>Apr 3rd 2008 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/
The mp3 KILLS the sound quality of the treble. I won't argue that most people aren't listening on crappy speakers; I know they are. But if Apple wants to be involved in the music industry, it should offer AT LEAST the quality that was available with "1980s compression technology".

Record companies have hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars invested in equipment which is used to make original recordings. What's the point if no one ever plays-back that sound?]]>Apr 3rd 2008 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/
Anyway, color me skeptical that you or (almost) anyone else could pass a blind listening test between 256k AAC and a CD.]]>Apr 3rd 2008 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/
They could be referring to how compressed the tonal range is on today's CDs. ie. the range of difference between the quietist part of a song vs the loudest.

Music isn't my field either but from what I hear, most songs are mastered now with much less range, so they sound louder and 'better'.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war]]>Apr 3rd 2008 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/
In fact, even if it's something I really like, I still rip and reencode it just so I won't scratch the thing to death. Pretty soon I'll have reencoded all my 5GB DVDs down to 700MB h264's that look just as good and boot up from my HTPC easily.]]>Apr 3rd 2008 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/Apr 3rd 2008 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/
still... there's something kinda spiffy to, say, vinyl, for having an analog source, master, and album. course that master's prolly digital these days 99.99% of the time. d'oh!]]>Apr 3rd 2008 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/
Just a thought.

Jerks.]]>Apr 3rd 2008 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/Apr 3rd 2008 4:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/
But srsly, u guyz, "Hey, can you autograph my digital download?"
I lament the decline of CDs. Not so much because I care about the means that other use to get their music, but because it could mean that it pushes my preference for CDs to the brink of abandonment for distribution.]]>Apr 3rd 2008 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/Apr 3rd 2008 4:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/Apr 3rd 2008 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/
but i guess that $10 CD at shows thing would be in danger. still, it's hard for upcoming/unsigned bands to make money off those. maybe digital distribution one way or the other could help them too (i mean, besides the usual myspace thing)]]>Apr 3rd 2008 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/Apr 3rd 2008 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/
Lets stop pointing fingers at downloads as being bad but lets look at ourselves and be edgy - sign new music artists - and american idol doesnt count.]]>Apr 4th 2008 2:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/Apr 3rd 2008 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/Apr 3rd 2008 4:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/Apr 3rd 2008 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/Apr 3rd 2008 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/
Y'All Want a Single?

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I also hope you're not stealing music, because that just hurts the artists.]]>Apr 3rd 2008 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/Apr 3rd 2008 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/Apr 3rd 2008 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/Apr 3rd 2008 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/apple-officially-says-its-the-1-music-retailer-in-the-us/
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