Bryan Murdock wrote on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 4:55 PM:
> 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. Allofmp3.com ... For one. Brian > > 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 -------------------- 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
