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Wait, so does this mean I can sync my iPhone to my netbook when I'm on business trips, without having to break the sync to my desktop, and reload everything from scratch?

Please Steve... I've only been asking for this functionality since the 3rd gen iPod. ]]>Sep 9th 2009 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/Sep 9th 2009 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/

And what's more, iTunes 9 is causing more problems than 8 ever did... and far more than zune 3.0]]>Sep 10th 2009 2:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://mymediaexperience.com/2009/08/apple-has-missed-opportunity-with-itunes/]]>Sep 10th 2009 7:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/
The question is, can it boot up in under 20 secs on a 4GB RAM PC?]]>Sep 10th 2009 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/
?????]]>Sep 9th 2009 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/Sep 9th 2009 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/Sep 9th 2009 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/(For all you kids out there, Vinyl still beats the crap out of any kind of CD out there)]]>Sep 9th 2009 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/
This iTunes rev. be High.. Sez "i"

Arrr..]]>Sep 9th 2009 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/
But then again, I've never been able to hear the difference...my ears are already in pretty poor shape from a short stint in a small rock band that tried to convince me that earplugs were for woosies, and that ride cymbals were best experienced at a distance of three feet.]]>Sep 9th 2009 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/
First of all, you have to pay a much higher premium in order to get great sound out of vinyl. Mostly due to the mechanical nature of sound reproduction from vinyl. Mechanical means more labour in manufacturing the turntable, tonearm and cartridge (which also wears which leads to even more costs). You also have to buy an expensive RIAA-stage in order to get high fidelity.

Secondly, you have to pay a much higher premium for the medium itself. Great sounding vinyl requires high quality mastering and pressing processes. Fullfilling those criteria equals high premium. And, in order to get a well mastered and pressed vinyl, high premium is not always enough, since you cant's just walk/log into a store and pay for the product. There are thousands and thousands of beautiful recordings which have never been re-released in high quality vinyl editions. So, you have to look for the original pressings. Nowadays it's relatively easy since we have musicstack.com and such but those original pressings require, you guessed it, even higher premium.

So, if you have infinite funding and infinite time on your hands, sure, you can get the best audio quality out of vinyl. Actually it's highly subjective. Vinyl has a lot of harmonic distortion and lacks in resolution. But I admit, good vinyl sounds damn nice.

I personally have a decent vinyl system in addition to an accurately-ripped-flacs outputting PC media player hooked to a high quality DAC. I prefer, to the nth degree, the cost and ease of operation of the PC media player.

Vinyl rules for the ritual that is taking out that PVC slab from the seventies scenting jacket and putting it on the platter and dropping the needle and listening to the earthy, fleshy tone! The album art also in sensationally better then ones in CD or downloads... Still, I love the flac-thing...]]>Sep 9th 2009 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/
I do not know about that. I believe it is subjective.

Some albums I try and find the original. But it is very hard to find original copies that don't pop, skip, etc... or aren't warped. I've started buying the audiofile versions and they sound awesome. But at $25 a copy, it's a bit expensive compared to the CD.

To each his own. Although this new LP thing is cool, I probably won't ever buy one. A hard copy I can back up at a higher quality is better then a few bonus tracks or extra artwork.]]>Sep 9th 2009 3:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/
I think the best idea bands ever had was to sell vinyl with a free digital download. That way you get the best of both worlds!]]>Sep 10th 2009 1:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/
In my utopia albums would be released as vinyls which included a voucher for an at least 24bit/96kHz FLAC download including detailed meta data (composers, performing personnel) and high resolution artwork. There would also be a significantly cheaper option of purchasing only the download.

All older recordings would have gone through a remastering process of the highest degree.

You can dream...]]>Sep 10th 2009 2:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPreorder?id=327432907&s=143441]]>Sep 9th 2009 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/
what took you so long apple?

where are the apple fanatics that love donating? i'm going to spit on my iphone
]]>Sep 9th 2009 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/Sep 9th 2009 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-leaks-itunes/]]>Sep 9th 2009 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/Sep 9th 2009 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/Sep 9th 2009 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/Sep 10th 2009 11:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/
Seriously, mall record stores are outrageously expensive (I'm seeing $20+ at my local "record" stores now), even compared to iTunes. You can't buy everything at BigBox stores because you never know if they edit content on the disk... like a certain Wally does, and they don't stock releases more than 3 months old unless they sell.]]>Sep 9th 2009 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/
Disagree. The best thing about downloads is that they are damned near instant. If you want a particular track or album then you can have it on-demand. The price of downloads has never been something that has concerned me. Convenience is always king.]]>Sep 10th 2009 3:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/Sep 9th 2009 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/Sep 9th 2009 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/Sep 9th 2009 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/Sep 9th 2009 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/Sep 9th 2009 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/Sep 9th 2009 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/Sep 9th 2009 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/Sep 9th 2009 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/Sep 9th 2009 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/Sep 9th 2009 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/
Rrriiiiiight.]]>Sep 9th 2009 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/Sep 9th 2009 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/Sep 9th 2009 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/Sep 9th 2009 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/Sep 9th 2009 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/Sep 9th 2009 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/Sep 9th 2009 4:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/Sep 10th 2009 3:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/Sep 10th 2009 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/Sep 9th 2009 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/Sep 9th 2009 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/
you give 350 apps too much credit. maybe only 3 are worth anything.]]>Sep 9th 2009 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/Only MS fanboys/Apple haters make sorry attempts at trying to make the App Store's vast quantity of apps as a negative. Keep amusing us big boy.]]>Sep 9th 2009 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/Sep 9th 2009 1:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/itunes-9-bringing-itunes-lp-functionality-mentioned-in-new-del/
fixed it for you. ]]>Sep 9th 2009 1:11PM