Comments on: iTMS – DRM?

By: John W

John W — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 23:50:34 +0000

I think it’s a great first step. And like josh I hate the idea of DRM but it’s not a major PITA for me. My one gripe is BPM analyzers can’t write the BPM to the file. so I can’t fathom why DRM’ed music isn’t packed to the gills with metadata. I am not space bar tapping hundreds of songs to manually do the BPM

Good first steps. I’m really interested in seeing how the remaining big three react.

Some one had a good point. most people don’t know the label their favorite artists are with. now people are going to seek out EMI artists and see if they like them.

By: paul

paul — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:05:33 +0000

Now someone needs to tell the RIAA the bad news!

http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/

btw I agree about the speakers, but I probably listen to music more in my car than on a PC (I listen off the iPod at work), should spend some sponds on upgrading the MINI stereo.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:39:13 +0000

Yeah, album prices stay the same. That's the best part of this announcement.

As for DRM, it's great to see the music industry finally realize that restricted music isn't good for consumers or musicians. Some musicians had already been questioning it -- such as the composer / blogger Shelly Palmer, on Media 3.0: The "Other" Digital Rights Management

It's a relief that DRM will go away so quickly. I had foreseen a long, drawn-out demise.

I'm happy to see it go.

Martin

By: Joshua

Joshua — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:34:35 +0000

I do think it’s cool, although to be honest, the only time the DRM has ever actually gotten in my way is if I want to drop a track into Garage Band, the DRM won’t let you. While I’m as anti-DRM as the next guy, I’ve never found FairPlay to be that invasive. Though I do remember that study that showed that DRM uses like 40 percent of your battery life taxing the CPU to check licenses or some such nonsense.

By: db

db — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:57:50 +0000

Most MP3 players support AAC (non-protected) now. Not all of them, but most.

The cool part is that you will be able to burn disks (with better sound) as many times as you like. And, use the tracks on more than 5 ‘authorized’ machines. In fact, you’ll be able to use the tracks any place you like.

And seriously man, you should look into upgrading your speakers. You can get better PC speakers cheap. Subwoofer and everything!

By: paul

paul — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:53:20 +0000

I read somewhere that if you buy the whole album, there is no upcharge for the higher bit-rate.

I don't think its as cool as it sounds, though. First, the tracks are AAC and it isn't yet the ubiquitous format available everywhere. Second, top down in my MINI the tracks might as well be 8-bit for all I can hear, and even at home I only play music through crappy PC speakers.

I think its a good step forward, though.