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Are you an iTunes Music Store addict?
Authored by: sdewidt on May 09, '06 05:23:17PM

I've bought ~600 songs from the iTMS. Recently though, I've had some concerns about the ability to play my music in the future. I know I could just burn my music to CD and then re-rip them to a DRM-free format, but some quality is lost in the process. So I've decided to go back to buying CDs more frequently since they are only a few dollars more and I get the actual disc with which I can do basically whatever I want.

In the past I bought a lot of music from allofmp3, but my bank (Wells Fargo) put an end to that. I received a new Visa check card in the mail from them one day with a letter stating that they had seen some 'unusual' activity on my card, and that as part of their early fraud detection program, they were assigning me a new card number. They also will not verify my card anymore on the site. I guess I could get some other card, but I don't know if it's worth the hassle. Too bad allofmp3 doesn't use paypal anymore; that would be sweet.



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allofmp3 for me
Authored by: escowles on May 09, '06 05:33:02PM

I haven't had any problems with allofmp3.com. I definitely prefer MP3 to AAC, since it works with all my computers/devices, not just my Mac/iPod. And you really can't beat the price (assuming you value your time enough that you don't want to spend time searching for stuff on p2p).

The DRM is the thing that drove me away from iTMS. I felt pretty ambivalent about it, but since the DRM was cracked and could be removed with JHymn, it was mostly an academic consideration. But the v6 DRM isn't cracked (yet). I definitely won't buy from iTMS unless I know I can remove the DRM, so it's allofmp3.com for me for the time being.

-Esme



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Are you an iTunes Music Store addict?
Authored by: frgough on May 10, '06 08:32:28AM

The quality loss is overhyped. Most people can't discern it. As my Physics prof used to say: If you can't detect the change, there was no change.



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