Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Itunes holdouts

http://www.wired.com/news/wireservice/0,71624-0.html?tw=rss.index

Whats worse is that some songs are specifically unavailable for a lot of
artists that do have their catalogue online, often their most popular
songs.  Sinatra's New York New York, Joan Jett's I love Rock and Roll,
and The Butthole Surfers Pepper are three examples that I know of, tho
Pepper is now available on itunes.  Even worse, if you buy these songs
off Itunes and then try to take them to a standard MP3 player it is very
cumbersome to reencode them to standard DRMless MP3.  When I brought my
Itunes Library over to my Xbox360 for example I had to rencode literally
thousands of songs and it took hours.

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