On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 21:02 -0700, David Allred wrote: > you can burn a CD of protected (purchased from iTunes) and then the > DRM is gone. Any you have the happy Audio Cd back up
No it's not a backup. What you have is a the equivalent of running a cable from line out back to line-in and re-recording. You lose fidelity (such as you can get from crappy 128-bit encoding) and quality and you introduce noise. This may be fine for most people (and most of the crap that comes out these days) but for a lot of music this just can't work. Better to buy from a source that's not DRMed at all. Yes CDs are still probably the way to go. Buy CD, rip it, put CD away in a safe place. Then you can always go back to the original uncompressed data. Probably the best way to go is to encode all your CDs in FLAC format and then transcode on-demand to AAC, or mp3 or ogg for portable devices. That said, I do buy music on-line in ogg format (usually 192 or higher to get near-cd quality). If the song is really important to me I'll buy it in flac. But I'd never buy from iTunes because of this DRM issue (and the fact that to me AAC is a useless format - no ipod). Michael > > > On Mar 14, 2006, at 7:35 PM, Michael Moore wrote: > > >> Can someone explain the extent of the "drm" in itunes? How bad is > >> it? Is > >> it noticeable? > > > > It's not that noticable as far as DRM goes, especially if you're a > > Mac/Win/iPod house. If I want to play an iTunes song on Linux, I have > > to strip the DRM first with Hymn. > > > > I actually have more of a problem with not having a real-world backup > > of it. If you lose the file, Apple is fairly reluctant to let you > > re-download them. With most of my songs, I can just re-rip the CDs if > > something happens...I like that. > > > > -- > > Michael Moore > > ------------------------------- > > www.stuporglue.org -- Donate your used computer to a student that > > needs it. > > > > -------------------- > > BYU Unix Users Group > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU- > > UUG. > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
