On 3/15/06, Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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).
Who sells ogg and flac music online? Just curious. Bryan -------------------- 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
