Apple Introduces iTunes Music Store, iTunes 4, new iPod 1775
The store also offers exclusive music, music videos, and other multimedia, all in the main iTunes window. iTunes 4 will be available now (along with QuickTime 6.2), and the music store will be available today. It is Mac-only now, but will be available for Windows by the end of the year.
As a compromise to help prevent piracy, you must change your playlist every 10 CD burns, and you may share the music with only three other Macs (you may modify the list of computers that the music may be shared with at any time). There was no word on the technology used to handle this DRM.
The iTunes playlist sharing allows sharing of playlists, and the streaming of music from one machine to the other, though copying is not supported ("that would be verboten," Jobs added).
The new iPods will be $299 (10GB), $399 (15GB), and $499 (30GB). The dock holds the iPod upright, and has a line-out. The FireWire port is now on the bottom of the unit, and the buttons have been moved up higher, just below the screen, in a row. The improved screen features a backlight. The new units will be in Apple stores on Friday.
Why not... (Score:1, Funny)
In other news! (Score:5, Funny)
30GB iPod + 7500 songs = $499 + $7425 = $7924 (Score:4, Funny)
Re:ACC to MP3/OGG Converter (Score:1, Funny)
Oh, sure ... I can hear it now. (Score:3, Funny)
"Check, check". "Is this thing on? Test test". "1-2-3-4. Check check". "Is tape rolling?" ("Rolling!"). "Inna Gadda Da" ("cut! You were flat."). "From the top? Check check". "Can someone adjust my monitor volume?" bwanggg! "Damn, I broke a string!" ...
Re:Total ripoff (Score:2, Funny)
True, since they aren't helping that much anyway.
Clue: If you spent $1000 for cables you aren't really in a position to be judging whether or not something is a rip-off.
Re:The obvious question (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Total ripoff (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Total ripoff (Score:3, Funny)
You got ripped off. Plain and simple. Those 1000 dollar cables will do jack shit to the sound-quality, and whatever benefit you might get (due to placebo-effect), will be compensated by those "average at best" Bose-speakers
Why don't you just install green LED's in your CD-player? Or color your CD's with green magic-marked. It's alot cheaper, it's also popular among audiophiles and it gives you just as much benefit as those 1000 dollar cables do (read: none).
Re:Still kinda expensive... (Score:5, Funny)
Hey now, there's no reason to poke fun at Canadian math skills ...
Re:Hey dickhead, pay attention: (Score:3, Funny)
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Apple not /.ed yet (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why not... (Score:2, Funny)
Best of Celin Dion (Don't play on a MAC)
Re:The *really* obvious question (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Why is this SO F**KING hard to understand? (Score:4, Funny)
7. Earn $1.75 per year.
8. Get Drunk.
9. Work at McDonald's.
Please, if there was that much of a market for indie artists, CD Baby would be edging out Amazon by now.
Re:Why is this SO F**KING hard to understand? (Score:5, Funny)
- Get music from artists,
- Offer tracks in an open format (ie ogg),
- Charge 50 cents per track,
- Keep 5 cents for your trouble,
- Give artist 45 cents,
- Shut up.
Right?Right. Now for the X-Prize checklist:
Join me next week when I distill world peace into six easy steps!
(IHBT)
Re:But the price of music is still unrealistic. (Score:4, Funny)
So you are going to make your own music now? Good for you. Remember if you make any quality music, you'd probably want people to pay $15 for your cds too.
Re:But the price of music is still unrealistic. (Score:5, Funny)
In the meantime, over to the right is an open mic night at a coffeehouse. You might be able to mooch and avoid a $4 coffee. Otherwise, there's that guy down the hall with the guitar.
--
Evan
Re:Its about farking time! (Score:5, Funny)
Music Store:
The Apple Music Store is currently unavaiable.
Please check back later.
Re:The *really* obvious question (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In other news! (Score:4, Funny)
2. Rip CD to mp3
3. Share mp3
i am teh 1337 h4xx0r
Solitaire! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Food For Thoughts (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Timeouts? (Score:3, Funny)
sending a message (Score:2, Funny)
In other words... (Score:5, Funny)
Where do I sign up?
Kjella
No Metallica.... (Score:3, Funny)
No. (Score:2, Funny)
Rock and Roll will never die. A digital recording is forever. I still listen to music that is over ten or twenty years old because I can come back to it and it rocks out. For instance, Led Zepplin III is still a great way to get laid.
Your problem is that you're listening to the Backstreet Boys. Stop that.
Re:step in the right direction... (Score:3, Funny)
Because you can't get it for free...
Unless your time is free.
And your bandwidth is free.
And your conscience is free.
And your lawyer is free.
Porn-o-nomics (Score:4, Funny)
Look: it would be nice if the whole world was run like a giant porn business, I agree. But you've got to give some thought to the pool of available talent, production costs, and the economics of distribution. Bottom line: it's somewhat easier to find a woman down on her luck who needs food and shelter and is willing to trade for them by laying in the center of a bunch of strangers who penetrate and ejaculate upon her, than it is to write, record, and sell a record.
From time immemorial, artists have been struggling with this very problem at the intersection where art and anonymous, for-pay sex meet. As Michelangelo once said, "Argh! If I don't get that Sistine Chapel commission, I'm going to have to do 'Venetian Orgy 4: My Tower of Pisa Leans to the Left'." Fortunately, he was spared that indignity and went on to paint one of the truly inspiring works of art of the ages featuring, but only by coincidence, God and Man in the nude.
So you see, while porn does appear to make the world seem more happily unidimensional, there are still nagging complexities that prevent our moving fully to a Porn-centric Economy. Besides, Alan Greenspan's ticker couldn't take it.
Re:It's all in the volume (Score:2, Funny)
That wouldn't be ... apple pie would it? HAH! Ok, i'm an idiot.
-matt
The iPod Dock Double Entendre (Score:2, Funny)
"no more reaching around looking for the right port"
indeed...
Re:Yeah but for $1 a song? (Score:5, Funny)
Obviously you're not an engineering student.
0 time, zero $$
Re:A lesson in economics. (Score:3, Funny)
Hey, I can get my top 100 favorite tracks on 7 CD's
Re:What a silly troll. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not good enough (Score:3, Funny)
Exactly. Unfortunately, they are still gatekeepers so if you want to play, you have to make them feel all warm and fuzzy. Would it were different, but it's not.
Later, when we digitize Hillary Rosen at the stake, we can dispense with the silliness, but for now...
Re:Its about farking time! (Score:1, Funny)
As in the life of a middle-aged man who still has a roommate? A roommate that comes with an 18 year old son no less?