Comments on: EMI, Apple partner on DRM-free premium music

Music label confirms that it will sell higher-quality, copy protection-free digital music through iTunes Store.
Photos: Apple's DRM-free duet with EMI

[scweezil]

Oh Please

AAC is a modern Open codec that anyone can add to their players
for playback. Why can't they coexist. What this move does is keep
the playing field level. No WMA BS & all the hardware makers are
not beholden to MS for a DRM'd codec.

[scweezil]

Explanantion for MR. Winky

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding

[Mister Winky]

Read it yourself!!! Hahahahaha!

Did you miss this part?

"Overall, the AAC format allows developers more flexibility to design codecs than MP3 does. This increased flexibility often leads to more concurrent encoding strategies and, as a result, to more efficient compression. However in terms of whether AAC is better than MP3, the advantages of AAC are not entirely conclusive, and the MP3 specification, while outdated, has proven surprisingly robust. AAC and HE-AAC are better than MP3 at low bit-rates (typically < 128 kbps). At medium to higher bit-rates (typically > 128 kbps in stereo), the two formats are more comparable in most fields."

Oops!

-Mister Winky

[mattumanu]

Finally, a solution! But...

Pay more for what people can already get for free, though illegally. Yup, good solution guys! That'll fix things right up!

[scweezil]

Upgrade

You can also upgrade the EMI music in your library to the higher
bitrate

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/04/02itunes.html

[annanemas]

This Could Actually Work

The fact that any CD's are still being sold shows that people are willing to pay substantial sums of money for convenience and quality control. Many customers will gladly pay a nominal fee for the quality assurances and convenience of an official source, and still be getting a bargain over the price of retail CD's. Diehards will still find ways to collect music for free, but by removing the inconveniences of proprietary formats and license management, EMI has effectively removed much of the temptation for most paying customers to seek out illegal sources.

[wildchild_plasma_gyro]

Not a chance in hell

This could discriminate some more and defy our freedom of expression.
Think back for a minute P2P networks alwys seem to go on thorth and a good percentage of music downloaded and such on it is populist music. So the media makes you interested a new populist fad, you download it then they say hey all that you own is mine. The words to discribe that kind of pratice is not allowed in this forum.
What if you accessed a centraless P2P buffered website not much diffrent to the old MP3.com where you could find real artist that we're really interesting who after listening to thier lowish bit version you could purchuse their track from their website. With all this done at somthing the
size of the old mp3.com maybe even bigger. Sort of like limewire cross mp3.com.That way fatcat beeps can't miniplulate what you listen to like that and you do have to bow to them not "one bit",people like mr Jobs no matter how honerable you think their backgroud is "when did he ever produce anything interesting to listen to".

Then if EMI or whoever thinks someone is avading some probably dubious copyright issue they have to deal with the artist instead of crushing the best thing this planet ever had(MP3.com).
as you may tell i'm a tad bitter.

[Fil0403]

iPod, iTunes keep anti-competitive eco-system

And for when iPod's working well with any media player and iTunes syncing with any MP3 player?
Or is Microsoft the only company in the world that has to have fully compatible hardware and software and be fined when it doesn't give its competitors the recipe for them to do the same?

[cjwall67]

Not a pirate or hacker.

Imagine my surprise when I went to load purchased songs from
Itunes onto my kid's mp3 player. They load, but are in a new
form that the player doesn't see as being a song file (m4p). You
also can't change them into an mp3 in itunes. However, for the
cost of a blank disc, you CAN make a CD and rip it back into
itunes. Once the files go to the disk, it seems the protection is
lost. I know there are easier (free) ways to get music, but I don't
have a major problem with going the legitimate route if they
would quit treating me like a criminal, just because I didn't feel
the need to pony up for ipods for my three children. I don't
blame Apple too much, since RIAA seems to be trying to hold
everyone for ransom for access to music, even when it's
legitimate. Look at XM radio: RIAA is trying to sue them, and XM
is probably the largest payer of music royalties in North
America. As an aside, who the heck figured that 128KBPS was
good enough for a sample rate at the itunes store? 160 is the
best compromise on file size and clarity for portable and mobile
platforms, and it takes a pretty good system to show much
deterioration in quality, compared with an original cd. Don't call
it premium music, itunes, call it the least you could do.

[Alain.R]

YouSwitch.tv Live Music Online

Hi all!

I found a live music site which is pretty cool: YouSwitch.tv
You can look at four video streams simultaneously with 4 different camera angles during a live show. You just have to choose the stream you want to watch. (if you want to see the drummer, the guitarist during a solo?) The nice thing is, switching allows you also to create a mixture of individual streams, and thus, you build your own montage for the concert and keep it.

www.youswitch.tv

Al.