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iPod Nano v4

you have to authorize computers to use your music - meaning you have to log in on said other computers to allow them to play music purchased with that account.

and even then, you're only allowed like 5 computers or something. you are not buying anything except permission to suck apple's dick.

really, why would you use itunes to purchase music? if you're going to be stupid and purchase music, at least use amazon - DRM-free at around 300kbps or so. you are getting a better quality and permission to do whatever you want with your files for the exact same price.
 
Furretsu said:
4. I can't stop you from using the iTunes store, but think about what comes with buying a song/podcast/movie from the iTunes store - especially Apple's nasty DRM. The DRM prevents you from transfering the file to other computers, using the file in any non-iTunes application, and isn't even very good quality anyway - 128kbps? No thanks. Honestly, you're not buying music... more like renting it. You don't actually own anything.
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okay, question (not in Apple's defense). you can open up any music file in NotePad, and look at the code, right? and so somewhere in that code, there must be a bit of script for the DRM, telling your computer to not play the song unless you authorize it and whatnot. so, assuming you were an el33t computer mastermind and you completely understood how the code worked, wouldn't it be possible to take the bit(s) of DRM code out of the txt file, and therefore get a DRM-free song?

obviously there is some major flaw with this reasoning or it would have happened already, so could someone please tell me what that flaw iss?
 
Furretsu said:
1. The "i" in iTunes and iPod are lowercase.
2. CD burning in iTunes is a joke; enjoy your bloated crappily-encoded files with no proper metadata.
3. Yamipod is not the only thing out there, it's just the one I use. It doesn't have any video support; however many other managers do. (Second column.)
4. I can't stop you from using the iTunes store, but think about what comes with buying a song/podcast/movie from the iTunes store - especially Apple's nasty DRM. The DRM prevents you from transfering the file to other computers, using the file in any non-iTunes application, and isn't even very good quality anyway - 128kbps? No thanks. Honestly, you're not buying music... more like renting it. You don't actually own anything.
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1. I don't care, I think that is stupid. But fine >.>
2. I THOUGHT that there was a problem with a CD only holding ~31 songs, despite other CD's holding the same amount, with each song being 3x longer (I like video game music, OK?)
3. I will look into that, thanks
4. Yeah, not my fault that people only release podcasts on iTunes, after being forced to go to iTunes because YouTube is run by a bunch of paranoid freaks that are afraid that they will get sued over even having PARODIES on it, despite them still allowing episodes of, say, The Simpsons stay on for years >.>
5. You missed the part about the fact that iTunes makes it nigh on impossible for me to download a DVD that I own onto my iPod >.> Yeah, no way in HELL am I paying for a copy of a movie I already own just to be able to watch it on my iPod on long road trips

Also, Furret, I apparently have sensitive ears (*Shrugs*), and I barely notice any drop in quality between CDs and my iPod
 
Furretsu said:
Better quality :P If you can somehow manage to put that into other words, power to you.
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I can't because I've never heard it. So I'll ask questions.

Sometimes I have to think really hard to hear insturments in the background. Is that a problem for this format?
 
Uh, probably not. That's probably a dB/equalization issue or something with your ears. Having a clearer, more vibrant quality will certainly help, though.
 
furret, you should do one of those highly scientific tests where you get your brother or something to play a low-quality song and also play a high-quality song and you have to tell him which is which, and then you do that like ten times and he writes down what percent of the time you were right.

THEN we'll see if it's a placebo or not.
 
yeah there have been so many times I've been out and about

and thought

I just can't go on without playing a bad port of a PS1 game right now

but alas I did not have a brick in my pocket so I died on the spot
 
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