how does Itunes work?

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how do you pay / how much are songs / what are the advantages over soulseek besides not breaking the law, etc etc

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Friday, 21 January 2005 03:25 (twenty-one years ago)

you'll go to heaven and [INSERT STEVE JOBS FUNNY]

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 January 2005 03:30 (twenty-one years ago)

$.99 / song, varying prices for full albums (less than $.99/song, though). You don't have to wait in queues, and are guaranteed quality. If you can afford to pay for it, and listen to the music they supply, then there's no reason not to use it.

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 21 January 2005 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

(Unless you have a portable music player that doesn't support AAC, ie not an iPod)

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 21 January 2005 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

presumably the question is about iTunes Music Store. iTunes is a music playing and organizing program. it works like a music playing and organizing program.

the cost of the songs on iTMS depends on what country your are accessing it from. or something.

― gspm (gspm), Friday, 21 January 2005 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I used it a lot for a while, but ultimately I feel like a chump buying digital music. Now I just slsk things and then buy them for real later. Also, I had a computer crash and all my music went away--one thing when it's ripped or downloaded, and another when you've paid for it.

That said, iTunes, the program, is great.

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Friday, 21 January 2005 03:45 (twenty-one years ago)

mrjosh, would you still feel like a chump buying it if it wasn't available on any other medium?

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 21 January 2005 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i think i would use it more if the songs weren't encoded at 128!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 21 January 2005 05:18 (twenty-one years ago)

You get five free songs if you sign up now to pay with Paypal.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 21 January 2005 05:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think asking for a 256 or even 192 kbps is asking too much.

― earinfections (Nick Twisp), Friday, 21 January 2005 07:05 (twenty-one years ago)

(Unless you have a portable music player that doesn't support AAC, ie not an iPod)

itunes will convert files to mp3.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 21 January 2005 07:06 (twenty-one years ago)

AFAIK a 128kbps AAC is indistinguishable from/better than a 192kbps MP3. to these ears it's true, anyway.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 21 January 2005 09:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Converting from one lossy format to another only serves to further lower the quality.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 21 January 2005 10:05 (twenty-one years ago)

One of the things that I don't understand - I'm dumb, I know - is that you can only use the song 5 times but you can use it as many times in *different* playlists. So when you download the whole album, you can only burn/copy that album five times, but if you use seperate songs in playlists, you can use those as many times as possible. I think that's... how I interpreted it.

― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Friday, 21 January 2005 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

the itunes music store is the slutty lady friend you only had sex with once, but it made your dick fall off five years later.

― irrigation can save your people, Saturday, 22 January 2005 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Itunes is nice if you're only searcing out one or two tracks per artist.

The sucky thing is that a lot of their library is still pretty incomplete. For instance, I wanted "2,000 Man" by the Stones, but they didn't have Satanic Magesties. Yet they did have Goat's Head Soup. (?!)

― darin (darin), Saturday, 22 January 2005 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

AFAIK a 128kbps AAC is indistinguishable from/better than a 192kbps MP3. to these ears it's true, anyway.

I recently did a little blind test for myself with a number of different formats and bitrate encodings of each of several songs I'm really familiar with, and I'm not hearing too much difference. What's more it kinda varies from song to song... In some cases mp3 sounded better than AAC and in other it was reversed. Across the board though, lower bitrate sounded worse (i.e. 128 AAC not as good as 160 mp3, 192 mp3 not as good as 256 AAC, etc.)

YMMV, of course.

― martin m. (mushrush), Saturday, 22 January 2005 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

If you're dying to listen to a song you can't find on soulseek it's absolutely worth it at 99 cents per song. I got the Pixies' "Bam Thwok" and Galt McDermot's "Coffee Cold" (bluesy piano diddy Handsome Boy Modeling School sampled for "The Truth") a while back after soulseek searches turned me down. $1.98 well spent.

Anyone know how much of it actually goes to the artists?

― Shaun (shaun), Saturday, 22 January 2005 08:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, this is extremely outdated, but here's the somewhat legendary CD Baby report on what Jobs told him and a slew of other indie labels back in June 2003 regarding deals with Apple and iTunes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 22 January 2005 08:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks Ned.

"* Apple only deals with the partner/label. It's up to the label to pay the artists, writers, publishing, etc."

― Shaun (shaun), Saturday, 22 January 2005 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

Thanks too Ned.

Anyone know anything about actualyl approaching Apple, or one of their 'pertners'?

Where can I get a list of these partners?

― mei (mei), Thursday, 17 February 2005 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

To answer the original question - basically, you arbitrarily give money to Apple for something which is free if you can figure out file-sharing. For $.99, you get some convenience, a unacceptably poor quality rip, a kiss on the cheek from the Apple brand machine, and the feeling that you're paying the artist.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

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