> curiosity, I just asked a friend to look for 11 bands that I > like and he > didn't find a single one on there. They only have about 200,000 songs on it now, but are saying they are going to add a ton more soon. There's a rumor flying around that they are trying to buy Universal Music for $6 billion. If they have the rights to all of Universal's library, that will likely bring in a pretty penny for Apple. There were a couple of things I was looking for that I didn't find on there (Zero 7, Blue Six, the first Portishead album, etc). But, it's not very mainstream stuff either. It seems to me that Apple has just positioned itself to become a major record label on their own. They have the means to distribute anything they want, and they don't have to worry about print and distribution costs at all. It would be interesting to see them come out with a service similar to Amazon's self-publishing service, where independent artists could upload their tracks, and take a cut of whatever gets sold. Someone asked if it worked with non-iTunes software. Nope. At least not yet. I can't imagine it would be too hard to reverse engineer it and come out with a program for linux that would interface with the site. It's simply HTML inside of a frame in iTunes. You'd need to somehow interface it with an audio player that could play AAC files that have DRM though. The DRM is fairly unrestrictive. Basically, the only thing iTunes won't let you do is convert it to another format directly. You can burn it to CD if you want and re-rip your burned CD. Converting compressed audio is just a bad idea anyway, but the only portable player that will play the files is the iPod. Speaking of which, the new iPod is sweet. It's smaller than the old version, and has an all touch interface, no moving buttons. Jay _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list