best online music store (iTunes, Napster and now Yahoo)

[j.t.]

Couldn't you simply just burn the protected songs as a standard music cd, and then rip the cd as whatever format you want? If the protected format allows you to burn it like this, you should be able to do that.

I prefer to just buy the cd. You get alot more for your money. $1 for a song really is not a fair price if you include everything that comes with a typical cd. Say you want to buy one album online and it has 12 tracks on it. That costs you $12, and you get some poor quality, 128 kbps, mp3/aac files that are in a protected format. Now if you go out and buy the cd, which will probably cost your around $13-$14, you get the entire cd at a super high quality, which is usually over 1000 kbps, the stuff that comes with the cd (album art, lyrics, liner notes etc.), AND the freedom to rip the music to your computer and do whatever you want with it.

Ill stick with buying cd's...

[p8ntball365]

Or you can borrow a friend's cd. Upload it to Itunes and put it on your mp3 player.

EDIT-J.T. you live in scarborough. Are you going to AO NE Day?

[Maggot6]

When is google gonna come out with music. I mean, they are expanding so much they might want to get into that..

[Timmee]

Couldn't you simply just burn the protected songs as a standard music cd, and then rip the cd as whatever format you want? If the protected format allows you to burn it like this, you should be able to do that.

I prefer to just buy the cd. You get alot more for your money. $1 for a song really is not a fair price if you include everything that comes with a typical cd. Say you want to buy one album online and it has 12 tracks on it. That costs you $12, and you get some poor quality, 128 kbps, mp3/aac files that are in a protected format. Now if you go out and buy the cd, which will probably cost your around $13-$14, you get the entire cd at a super high quality, which is usually over 1000 kbps, the stuff that comes with the cd (album art, lyrics, liner notes etc.), AND the freedom to rip the music to your computer and do whatever you want with it.

Ill stick with buying cd's...

The problem with your example (the way I see it, anyways), is I rarely want ALL the songs from an album. Usually, my only exception to that rule is comedy albums. Also, I can live with 128kbps.

[j.t.]

Timmee- I guess I don't listen to music that way. When I listen to music, I expect to be able to enjoy the entire cd. If a band/artist cannot produce an entire cd worth listening to, I wont listen to them anyways. This is just my opinion though...

And no, I dont feel that comedy albums need to be in super
high quality, obviously. I only own like 2 of them anyways (RIP Mitch Hedberg )

p8ntball365- Im still unsure about going to AO NE Day. Will Wood has been trying to pursuade me to go, but I dont post much on AO anymore, and I don't shoot a mag anymore either. It also conflicts with my teams practice that day. I will see what happens I guess...its a maybe