Timothy J. Trace wrote:

> I've ripped almost 500 discs from my collection using Exact Audio Copy
> and LAME, and I populate my players from those rips.
>
> The last thing I need is an outlet where I can toss away $1 per song on
> new stuff and rarities...I'll be broke within a week :>

Yet you were able to afford 500 CDs?! There's something not right there.
I buy a lot from iTunes because in many cases it is *less* expensive than
CDs. For example, last week I downloaded "Hayley Westenra - Pure" album
- 20 tracks for £7.90. I have seen the CD version for sale at £11.99 and it
only has 13 tracks on it!

> As for missing out on the functionality of iTunes, that's not a huge
> concern, but I'll grant that I don't know much about iTunes. What I
> have now with Ephpod, etc, works well and is not all that much more
> complicated than what I imagine iTunes to be.

You're waging war on iTunes but don't know your enemy? Why don't
you try it and see what you're missing...

G.T. 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 ?

Paul

Eric Kay <eric.kay@lineonenospam.net> wrote:

> Timothy J. Trace wrote:
>
> > I've ripped almost 500 discs from my collection using Exact Audio Copy
> > and LAME, and I populate my players from those rips.
> >
> > The last thing I need is an outlet where I can toss away $1 per song on
> > new stuff and rarities...I'll be broke within a week :>
>
> Yet you were able to afford 500 CDs?! There's something not right there.
> I buy a lot from iTunes because in many cases it is *less* expensive than
> CDs.

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.

--
Woody

www.alienrat.com

In article <43b7107c$0$909$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk>, Paul Russell
<prussell@sonic.net> wrote:

> Classic Usenet thread

Nah... I haven't seen anyone correct his spelling or grammar yet. Heh.

--
Garner R. Miller
Clifton Park, NY =USA=
http://www.garnermiller.com/

Eric Kay wrote:
> Timothy J. Trace wrote:
>
>
>>I've ripped almost 500 discs from my collection using Exact Audio Copy
>>and LAME, and I populate my players from those rips.
>>
>>The last thing I need is an outlet where I can toss away $1 per song on
>>new stuff and rarities...I'll be broke within a week :>
>
>
> Yet you were able to afford 500 CDs?! There's something not right there.
> I buy a lot from iTunes because in many cases it is *less* expensive than
> CDs.


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

Greg

--
"All my time I spent in heaven
Revelries of dance and wine
Waking to the sound of laughter
Up I'd rise and kiss the sky" - The Mekons

In article <311220051849536904%garner@netstreet.net>,
Garner Miller <garner@netstreet.net> wrote:

> In article <43b7107c$0$909$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk>, Paul Russell
> <prussell@sonic.net> wrote:
>
> > Classic Usenet thread
>
> Nah... I haven't seen anyone correct his spelling or grammar yet. Heh.

Stop criticizing him. With your attitude, you're just as bad as the
Nazis.

(OK, now we're done...)

- geoff

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 23:02:54 GMT, Eric Kay
<eric.kay@lineonenospam.net> wrote:

>> The last thing I need is an outlet where I can toss away $1 per song on
>> new stuff and rarities...I'll be broke within a week :>

>Yet you were able to afford 500 CDs?! There's something not right there.

I've been buying CDs since at least 1987.

>You're waging war on iTunes but don't know your enemy? Why don't
>you try it and see what you're missing...

I'm not waging war. I'm avoiding in ignorance :>

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 16:29:34 -0700, Michelle Steiner
<michelle@michelle.org> wrote:

>In article <53qdr15u41ridh8brdbhi0tg24qo6qgoji@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?

Is there a FAQ on this stuff?

Paul Russell wrote:
> G.T. 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 ?
>

Agreed. I thought it was a cool hack. What the hell. There was a day
when folks were encouraged to play around computers and make them work
the way YOU want. What the hell :-)



> Paul

Paul Russell:
> Classic Usenet thread - guy posts harmless, well-meaning and potentially
> useful nugget of information...

This is obviously some strange usage of the word "useful" that I wasn't
previously aware of.

> ...and then all hell breaks loose as the
> fanboys, netcops, pedants and nit-pickers rip him to shreds. What's not
> to love ?

Well, we haven't heard from the "Intelligent Design" nutsos yet.

Davoud

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