Steve vRS

I'm just going to buy the bloody albums.

First Itunes - cannot convert to MP3, you have to burn them and then rip the tracks back to MP3

Now MSN Music - Even worse. WMA files that cannot be converted even with WMA workshop and cannot even be ripped.

What is even worse is that the system of a Down album I downloaded it insists on renaming Natalie Imbruglia!

Steve - off to HMV

class_A

There are ways of transcoding iTMS protected AAC files to MP3 without burning discs, it's even been covered on here before, but you can't seriously be complaining that vendors of DRM enabled software don't give you any sensible or quick way of circumventing it?

DJ140

With the price of a delivered CD around £8.50, why would anyone download a compressed recording for the same price?

Someone please tell me what the advantage of downloading music is, I just don't get it!

Taff107

Steve, I don't bother with peer to peer applications like Shareaza etc. Now, I always use MP3ru . The songs are recorded at a high bitrate, virus free and are only charged $00.10 per track.

Taff107

Simple....because

1. you can get them instantaneously

2.I can get 8 albums for that price

3. If the track is recorded at a well and at a high enough bitrate, you cannot tell the difference.

DJ140

Please tell me where I can get a legal copy of the new Coldplay album for 95p?

jgc

The annoyance with iTunes is this machine authorisation business.

You can authorise up to 5 machines, which is fine until one of the authorised machines dies a horrible death ... the authorisation dies with it!

At one point, due to hardware failure, I only had 2 authorisations left!

markr1963

Less than 95p

I know the legality of this site is questionable blah, blah, blah but quite frankly I don't GAF

Taff107

Wot he said.......

bioforger

iTrader: (1)

Here here, I paid fackall for it

Daz34

You obviously need a better hi fi then.

Taff107

So on the 'Gadget show' they bring the band Stereogram into a professional recording studio and play back their album to them in the 3 formats - CD, MP3 and vinyl and how many of the three were guessed correctly? - none.
Oh....and they weren't using Alba or Amstrad equipment in the studio, funnily enough.
A good audiophile probably would be able to tell between the two, but how many of them are there about? The majority of people listen to music in the car etc and don't get too obsessed about spending hundreds of pounds on interconnects. We'll leave that to the (sometimes pretentious) prima donnas....

Daz34

Perhaps I should have put a wink in my reply
You can tell the difference between a compressed signal and a CD, and you don't need the hearing of a bat or exotic hi fi to do so. Mine certainly isn't.

Gridlock Mikey

What?? Your hearing Or do you have an exotic Bat knocking around

PS What you doing in here?

class_A

It is fairly easy to tell the difference, although most people don't care. However, some of the "legal" Russian sites (under Russian law at least) do offer lossless compressed (eg. FLAC) and even uncompressed CD-DA (.wav) files for download.

messiah

Good site

now to download a few samples and see if I can tell the difference. Up until now I've been recording all my cd's into iTunes AAC format at a 192 bitrate - but I bought a couple of tracks last week at a "measly" 128 - when burned onto a CD there is a definate drop in sound quality.

Fosters

go here to mp3 your iTunes music.
http://www.hymn-project.org/download.php

I bought a few 'CDs' from iTunes to play at home on our marantz mp3 player and was amazed to realise that i couldn't port them in itunes i don't have a cd burner in my work machine either.