> -----Original Message----- > From: Austad, Jay [SMTP:JAustad at temgweb.com] > Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 2:00 PM > To: 'tclug-list at mn-linux.org' > Subject: RE: [TCLUG] iTunes music service > > > 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. > What gives them an advantage over say Microsoft here? I mean Microsoft could do the same and leverage there home entertainment XP line. --Just a thought. > 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 > I think Apple is making a windows version, perhaps they will make a linux version _______________________________________________ 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