Downloading via iTunes...

[cpals]

Okay, so I tested out this thing... have a couple questions now.

1. Say I purchase one song a day for two weeks. I'm going to have 14 purchase lines on my credit card??? That seems like a pain, can't they just run through one purchase at the end of the month? I know you can do the shopping cart thing, but you can't get the songs right then I don't think.

2. When I purchased my first song it was downloaded in AAC format. Some audio protection thing... why can't I get it in mp3 format? Is there a downside to this AAC thing?

Thanks.

 

[notfred]

All the songs you buy are in AAC format. It's for DRM. Did you really think the music industry was going to allow people to download unprotected MP3 files?

I don't know about the credit card thing. Having a bunch of small purchases on my card wouldn't bother me.

 

[LethalWolfe]

1. You buy as you go. I don't see how 14 seperate charges is worse than 1 big charge.

2. AAC files contain the DRM (digital Rights management) and they are also higher quality than MP3's of the same size. The iTunes music store has the most liberal/user friendly DRM of any of the on-line music stores. Hit the itunes website to find out more.


Lethal

 

[AnyMal]

Can you legally convert AAC file to regular CD music?

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: AnyMal
Can you legally convert AAC file to regular CD music?

Yes, you're allowed to burn as many CDs as you want from the files you download off iTunes.

 

[cpals]

Is it possible to move AAC files around or if I reinstall windows is it linked to my system somehow?

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: cpals
Is it possible to move AAC files around or if I reinstall windows is it linked to my system somehow?

You can move them wherever you want, and if you accidentally delete them you can download them again for free.

 

[iamme]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: cpals
Is it possible to move AAC files around or if I reinstall windows is it linked to my system somehow?

You can move them wherever you want, and if you accidentally delete them you can download them again for free.

nice.

 

[cpals]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: cpals
Is it possible to move AAC files around or if I reinstall windows is it linked to my system somehow?

You can move them wherever you want, and if you accidentally delete them you can download them again for free.

Whoa, I didn't know that... that's cool.

*goes to read up more on iTunes*

 

[LordJezo]

Burn .aac to audio cd image, mount the image with daemon tools, rip the tracks to mp3.

Why wouldnt that work?

 

[cpals]

I noticed the bit rate the purchased song I got was only like 128... isn't that kind of low for a music file?

 

[yoyo25]

Anyone know how if iTunes will automatically search/fix id3 tags for mp3s you allready have, I cant seem to find this option, which they have in MusicMatch...like it will search some database and give you options on how it will rename the tags - song name - album name - artist..etc. I just dont want to manually change stuff.

 

[iamme]

Originally posted by: LordJezo
Burn .aac to audio cd image, mount the image with daemon tools, rip the tracks to mp3.

Why wouldnt that work?

isn't that re-compressing? like re-encoding a 192kbit MP3 to 128kbit?

my guess is that the MP3 quality wouldn't be great.

 

[LordJezo]

Originally posted by: iamme

Originally posted by: LordJezo
Burn .aac to audio cd image, mount the image with daemon tools, rip the tracks to mp3.

Why wouldnt that work?

isn't that re-compressing? like re-encoding a 192kbit MP3 to 128kbit?

my guess is that the MP3 quality wouldn't be great.

Average people wont notice the difference..

I have gone from 128kbps mp3 to cd to 192 mp3 again and you can't notice a difference.

At least I can't or none of my friends can't.

I only think it would matter if you had high end stereo equipment or had a good ear for such things.

 

[LethalWolfe]

Originally posted by: cpals
I noticed the bit rate the purchased song I got was only like 128... isn't that kind of low for a music file?

AAC files have a better compression scheme than MP3's so you can get better sound quality at the same bit rate. So an 128 AAC file will sound better than a 128 MP3.


Lethal