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re: Thing I hate the most about iTunes

>I'm having a little trouble following this argument. If you're looking to play the tracks in a car stereo (per your post, one without AAC/MP3 [or even WMA] capabilities,) wouldn't you need to burn the tracks in a native music CD format? I know iTunes does this, and I believe most others do as well. What they do not allow is the direct conversion from one protected compressed format to another compressed format. (IE: Fairplay AAC to MP3 or protected WMA to Org Vorbis, etc.) though there are ways around that without burning to CD just to rip back, etc. Beyond that, there's a great point to iTunes, Napster and the rest... you can purchase the music you want at a reasonable price. You can then listen to that music in a variety of channels, including your computers, personal music players, burning to music CD for use in home or car steros and more.

Car Stereos that support mp3(and WMA) allow for a user to burn a CD full of mp3s and listen to them in their cars. What is cool about this, is that instead of burning 72 minutes of music on an audio CD, you can burn 650 Megs worth of music onto the same CD. Thats a heck of a lot more music than 72 minutes. All the Car Stereos out there that support mp3 also support wma.

If you do a lot of downloads via iTMS, you won't be able to burn the music to CD like in the example I just stated. You can burn them to an audio CD, but thats far less music. And you must reburn another disk everytime you want to add a song or songs.

With a data CD full of mp3s, aac, or wma, you can simply do a multi-session burn, and remove and add songs as you see fit. Problem is, aac is not supported on any car cd players...so your out of luck there.

What he can do is buy an iPod, and use an adapter of RF transmiter to get music from iPod to car. Thats what a lot of iTunes uses do.

What Apple needs to be doing is trying to convince electronic makers like Sony, Pioneer, Kenwood, Alpine, etc to support the AAC format as well as mp3 and wma. I don't know how the DRM restrictions will play into doing something like that.

Since I have an iPod with a factory radio, I have never ran into this problem. Before the iPod, I would just burn audio CD's. ALOT OF AUDIO CD's. Once I even put a PC in my car (before the iPod), just so I didnt have to burn so many freakin CDS everytime I added an mp3 to my collection.

Posted by: morgande   Posted on: 04/29/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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