15 replies to this topic

[grabacontroller]

Do you have to buy music from the Itunes store in order for you to play music on your IPod?

[TheFiresInTheSky]

no. you can rip CD's onto your computer and put them on there using their software.
you can do the same thing with any MP3's that you have on your computer.

[Andavari]

If you're going to use iTunes to rip your own audio cd's to either AAC or MP3 make sure you enable error correction in the iTunes CD drive configuration!

[Eldmannen]

If you use iTunes then reformat your computer, I heard you must buy all your music again...

And it don't support Ogg Vorbis and FLAC.
Aff!

[oli]

you can use winamp to sync to your ipod aswell

[kobrakommander56]

yeah you are correct, unlike services like say Steam, Itunes offers no way to backup your purchases so if your computer crashes you sir are s**t out of luck. I use foobar2000

[Andavari]

That's just another reason why DRM'd music sucks, and DRM'd music is something I'll neeeever, eeeever be a consumer of.

Edit: Although Windows Media Player sucks, at least it's licenses can be backed up, kudos to MS on that one.

[Eldmannen]

Same for me, never ever DRM-crippled music for me.

[PS3]

grabacontroller, on Jul 22 2006, 05:54 AM, said:

Do you have to buy music from the Itunes store in order for you to play music on your IPod?

no, i havent ever done that. i just download my music from limewire and then transfer it to my ipod.

[zaphirer]

You can use a regular MP3 player like creative's Zen or Zen micro. I've got a creative MuVo and it works great.

[IncredibleHawk]

Now why tell someone what you have and not give him the product? Im just curious!

[mushu13]

Last I checked you can bypass the iTunes protected music by burning the song to an audio cd then ripping it back to the computer as a mp3.

[Andavari]

mushu13, on Jul 30 2006, 10:25 AM, said:

Last I checked you can bypass the iTunes protected music by burning the song to an audio cd then ripping it back to the computer as a mp3.

The problem is that is transcoding, and will loose allot of quality. It's best to not support any DRM'd music in the first place, and thus there won't be a problem with it!

[rridgely]

Exactly burn a low quality drm mp3 to a disc and then put it back on your computer and then burn it again. If you have a nice sound system in your living room try listening to it on that and see how truely awefull it is!

I know that the walmart site gives their music in 128kb wma format. That is such low quality that even the first time you burn it to a disc it sounds like crap.

[Andavari]

rridgely, on Jul 30 2006, 05:18 PM, said:

I know that the walmart site gives their music in 128kb wma format. That is such low quality that even the first time you burn it to a disc it sounds like crap.

WMA at 128 k/bits doesn't make my ears happy at all, to much artifacts for me, and doesn't start sounding good/acceptable to me unless it's at 192 k/bits or higher if using WMA VBR mode, but still then I wouldn't choose it. For lossy audio formats it's hands down LAME MP3 (compatible with anything), and Ogg Vorbis (gaining more and more hardware support). For lossless audio it's WavPack.

[zaphirer]

Oggs are pretty good, just waiting it to gain more popularity. My MP3 player will only play WMAs and MP3s.