On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 02:50 PM, Matt W. wrote:
Hrm, so I've been meaning to check out this $0.99 per song offering that
apple.com has been advertising -seems pretty cool, I can finally get those
few songs that I don't want to buy an album for. Just checked into it only
to find that you have to purchase these songs through apple's iTunes
software which only runs on Mac OS X 10.? and above. I heard that they are
considering development of a Windows version.
Out of curiosity, has anyone used this service?, bought any songs for 99c?,
what format/quality do the songs come in?, can you copy them to any
computer/MP3 player?
I've used to to purchase 20 or so songs. The songs are downloaded as 128 Kbps AAC and from there can be played on 4 different computers, burned to CD any number of times (the only restriction being you can only burn the exact same CD 10 times from iTunes -- if you need to make more copies, cdda2wav and cdrecord help out immensely) and can also be copied to your iPod. Most of the songs sound pretty good, but I am not an audiophile. If I don't think one sounds good, I buy it anyway, and then download a 192 Kbps MP3 from Limewire to actually use on my CD's and stuff. :)
Grant
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