BuyMusic Problems
It’s the user, stupid. For those of you who haven’t used the iTunes Music Store, let’s just say that Apple’s user experience far exceeds that described above. She had to click every single song she downloaded.. including ones purchased as albums. On iTMS, they just download automatically. It works transparently. You can even go and play other music in your Library.. don’t worry about finding your new tracks when they’re done: they’re automatically downlaoded to and sorted in the filesystem by your iTunes preferences, and also automatically added to a Smart Playlist called “Purchased Music.” Also, she talks about multiple types of licenses, including a “secondary license” that doesn’t allow her to burn her new music to a CD, which her husband’s computer was limited to because it was a secondary machine, and her primary machine crashed when using the Roxio plugin that’s apparently required to burn BM’s purchased musoc. iTMS has no such alternative licensing; every song has the same priveliges on every authenticated machine, Despite BuyMusic’s purported $0.79/song, most of them are $0.99, with a bunch as high as $1.29. Oh and don’t forget the identical commercials. Sounds like we have another Microsoft on our hands, in terms of copying Apple.
Read this awful message hidden inside a privacy policy: “we may disclose, sell, trade, or rent your Personally Identifiable Information to others without your consent”
Fuck that. Glad I own a Mac.
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Yeah, that buymusic.com is sh*t… Even worse than the license restrictions is that you pay $1 for a freaking 128 kbps file. I listen to all my music at 192 kbps and up… If I really like a band, I’ll buy their cd and rip at 320 kbps. Why the hell would I pay the same amount (sometimes even more!) for a “CD” that is not only terrible quality, but also can’t be transported anywhere and doesn’t include the cd book/case/etc.
Got a question, by the way… Does iTunes sell high quality mp3’s or AAC files, or are they POS 128kbps as well? I might actually use iTunes for Windows if you confirm the files are high quality -_-.
By the way, banning users doesn’t work on this site 🙂
it is 128… but i think the idea is that AAC has higher quality.
Eh, oh well… I could always just *buy* a CD instead of using IRC or Kazaa.
Me, I’m still just stunned by the “we may disclose, sell, trade, or rent your Personally Identifiable Information to others without your consent” blurb. Cripes!
you need to take this type of language off of the internet. FCC should ha law against such garbage.