In article <11re70cl0nl0o5d@corp.supernews.com>,
"G.T." <getnews1@dslextreme.com> wrote:

> I've got a modest 800 CDs now and none of them are the mainstream crap
> available on iTMS.

Didn't know your were a death metal fan.

Nige.

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On 31/12/05 23:15, in article 43b7107c$0$909$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk, "Paul
Russell" <prussell@sonic.net> wrote:

>> Yes, I know, but his instructions would apply just as well to this
>> laptop running OpenBSD so I'm glad he went to the trouble of posting his
>> summary.
>>
>
> Classic Usenet thread - guy posts harmless, well-meaning and potentially
> useful nugget of information and then all hell breaks loose as the
> fanboys, netcops, pedants and nit-pickers rip him to shreds. What's not
> to love ?

Nuffin.'

Apart from WHY you'd want to do it. It just seems like someone coming up
with a complicated solution to a non-existent problem. Which is the IT
industry all over.

On 1/1/06 02:27, in article scfer15cmvb52a2g8pe9bfn54b5c3t5evu@4ax.com,
"Timothy J. Trace" <tim@nospam.co.uk> wrote:

>>> Unless iTunes has changed, and *please* correct me if I'm wrong,
>>> songs that you download to the player are not backed up on the host
>>> PC.
>>
>> You are wrong, and things have not changed; they've always remained on
>> the host computer.
>
> Help me here. If I buy a song from iTunes, do I select a destination
> for it, such as the iPod or the local computer's library? Or is it
> always downloaded to the local computer, and I check it out, like a
> library book, to the player?

Music ALWAYS gets downloaded to the music library folder. Set its location
in the preferences (yes it can be a local or remote folder) and "always at
music when adding to library". Then you copy stuff to the ipod.

> Is there a FAQ on this stuff?

No. Look the software is free. Just download a copy of it and play. You're
obviously bright. Itunes will take you all of 30 seconds to work out. Then
if you don't like it, dump it.

On 1/1/06 04:14, in article
michelle-D90ABB.21140731122005@news.west.cox.net, "Michelle Steiner"
<michelle@michelle.org> wrote:

>> To be honest, I have a few hundred CDs but don't have anything from
>> the iTunes store. In general most of them were picked up for less
>> than they would be on iTunes, and I don't get the restrictions on
>> what I can listen to them on.
>
> You can listen to music purchased from the iTunes store on any device.

Rubbish.

Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:

> In article <1h8gjkp.14w4y5fxpos52N%usenet@alienrat.co.uk>,
> usenet@alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote:
>
> > To be honest, I have a few hundred CDs but don't have anything from
> > the iTunes store. In general most of them were picked up for less
> > than they would be on iTunes, and I don't get the restrictions on
> > what I can listen to them on.
>
> You can listen to music purchased from the iTunes store on any device.

If you want to go through hoops you probably can but it is a lot harder
than if you had an unprotected MP3.
I could play it on my car stereo but I would have to burn it to CD, then
rip it to mp3 and then play that, by which time it would have lost a lot
of quality.
Also I didn't say about which device I get to play it on, I said I don't
get the restrictions. If I buy a CD I can rip the tracks and put them on
my Mac, my PC, my powerbook and my tablet, my iPod, my wifes nano and
the iPod I use when playing the guitar. When I want to copy it from
there, I don't need to deauthorise it on one machine to copy it, I just
copy it.

If a track on a CD costs me about £1, then a track with restrictions
like from the iTunes store is worth (to me) about 35p, so they are
currently too expensive.


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Woody <usenet@alienrat.co.uk> wrote:

> > You can listen to music purchased from the iTunes store on any device.
>
> If you want to go through hoops you probably can but it is a lot harder
> than if you had an unprotected MP3.
> I could play it on my car stereo but I would have to burn it to CD, then
> rip it to mp3 and then play that, by which time it would have lost a lot
> of quality.

That seems like a lot of steps. I have stuff I have downloaded from the
iTMS, using iTunes. To make a copy to play in the car (I don't have an
iPod) all I do is to create a compilation in iTunes and burn that
directly to CD. One step. It works fine and can be repeated ad
infinitum. Quality is perfectly okay for listening in the car.
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Peter Ceresole <peter@cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Woody <usenet@alienrat.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > > You can listen to music purchased from the iTunes store on any device.
> >
> > If you want to go through hoops you probably can but it is a lot harder
> > than if you had an unprotected MP3.
> > I could play it on my car stereo but I would have to burn it to CD, then
> > rip it to mp3 and then play that, by which time it would have lost a lot
> > of quality.
>
> That seems like a lot of steps. I have stuff I have downloaded from the
> iTMS, using iTunes. To make a copy to play in the car (I don't have an
> iPod) all I do is to create a compilation in iTunes and burn that
> directly to CD. One step. It works fine and can be repeated ad
> infinitum. Quality is perfectly okay for listening in the car.

You are just making a CD though with up to 20 (short) tracks - I am
talking about an mp3 cd with 100 or so.


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On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 13:07:02 +0000, usenet@alienrat.co.uk (Woody)
wrote:

>You are just making a CD though with up to 20 (short) tracks - I am
>talking about an mp3 cd with 100 or so.

Ahh, CD's, how quaint.
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Davoud <star@sky.net> wrote:

> > Hi, I have managed to load my wife's 1GB shuffle without using iTunes.
> > Let me summarize for you...
>
> This is only a summary!? My sincerest sympathy if old age took your
> dearly beloved wife while she was waiting to listen to her music. About
> 20 years ago Apple introduced a thing called "Drag and Drop" to
> personal computers. Using that clever little innovation, it takes my
> wife less than 60 seconds to load her 1GB Shuffle -- all by herself, no
> less -- from iTunes!

I have an iPod and iTunes, but I don't have a wife. So consequently, as
you might imagine, I feel a bit left out by all this. Is there some way
I can enjoy easy digital music file transfers without having a wife?

Thanks, and Happy New Year.

Daniele

Jim <jim@magrathea.plus.com> wrote:

> D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address@apple-juice.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Davoud <star@sky.net> wrote:
> >
> > > > Hi, I have managed to load my wife's 1GB shuffle without using iTunes.
> > > > Let me summarize for you...
> > >
> > > This is only a summary!? My sincerest sympathy if old age took your
> > > dearly beloved wife while she was waiting to listen to her music. About
> > > 20 years ago Apple introduced a thing called "Drag and Drop" to
> > > personal computers. Using that clever little innovation, it takes my
> > > wife less than 60 seconds to load her 1GB Shuffle -- all by herself, no
> > > less -- from iTunes!
> >
> > I have an iPod and iTunes, but I don't have a wife. So consequently, as
> > you might imagine, I feel a bit left out by all this. Is there some way
> > I can enjoy easy digital music file transfers without having a wife?
> >
>
> You need to wait a couple of weeks - Jobs is expected to announce iWife
> '06 at the Expo.

She will look great but be a bit slow :-)

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