iTunes and Amazon license agreement

Zer0 · 12-11-2011, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by RMR

Itunes gets a lot of flack around here, but it is a very powerful program that will let you do pretty much whatever you want in whatever format you want with your music. Personally, I think listening to music (in lossless format) through my itunes (which is hooked up to a receiver and real speakers) is unparrelled.

You may be able to do a lot of things with itunes but from my experience with music players I've found Winamp and foobar2000 to be far more effective in letting you do whatever you want. Itunes is limited in what you can do compared to those two. Itunes also won't play ogg vorbis or FLAC files without having to find some tedious way around it while Winamp and foobar2000 play all file types effectively.

LoathsomePete · 12-11-2011, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by RMR

You completely own it. I'm not that familiar with Zune, but your problem might be that it is not compatible with the format that Itunes downloads to by default (AAC Encoder), but if you go the Itunes menu>preferences>Import settings>Import using, you can choose whatever format you want: mp3, lossless, or whatever, and those are universal formats, so I would assume one of those formats would work with Zune. You can also convert anything already in your itunes to any equal or lower format. In other words, you can go fro lossless to mp3, but you can't go from mp3 and turn that into lossless. Good luck!

Itunes gets a lot of flack around here, but it is a very powerful program that will let you do pretty much whatever you want in whatever format you want with your music. Personally, I think listening to music (in lossless format) through my itunes (which is hooked up to a receiver and real speakers) is unparrelled.

I didn't know iTunes allowed you to change the file type, I just remember being unable to change a bunch of .m4a files (the default file type for purchased music) in a 3rd-party file converter program. I did have a bunch of songs (around 200 or so) of purchased music that I can't seem to access any more and all my attempts to contact iTunes staff and find out what happened to them have gone unanswered. I personally don't like the program, I find it slow to load up, slow to browse through, and slow to shut down, despite my PC having a decent amount of RAM. I also don't really use media libraries, often times I just open up Winamp and drag the album I want to listen to into the playlist editor. I was so happy when I found I could do iOS updates wirelessly and now with Dropbox I can add PDF's and eBooks to my iPad without needing to manually import them by plugging in. Perhaps I do rag on iTunes too much, it definitely was the best way to get music legally and did a lot to help usher in the age of digital distribution and get record execs to put down their pitchforks and torches and at least acknowledge that digital distribution is the way of the future. That being said though, I would much rather purchase through Amazon MP3 or Band.Camp, or even just stream it through Spotify.

SATCHMO · 12-11-2011, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

I didn't know iTunes allowed you to change the file type, I just remember being unable to change a bunch of .m4a files (the default file type for purchased music) in a 3rd-party file converter program.

As far as I know you still have to convert the file before you import it.