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iTunes music store for Canada now open WOHOO!!!
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| starsearcher |
Well not that I actually buy a lot of music online but it's about time, the iTunes Music Store Canada is now open!
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| dEsidEL |
i'd still rather buy a CD :D
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| goodnet |
| Alright! Time to buy some DRM'd music, baby! Yeah! |
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| starsearcher |
Hehehe one of the top new reseases in the Canadian store...Tiesto - Parade of the Athletes :haha: :stongue: NOICE!
The complete U2 thing is pretty incredible....446 songs and remixes...wow impressive!!! |
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| tw1tch |
| Like I'm going to install that cancer on my computer. :) |
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| dallastar |
I have used i tunes for the longest time - it is super wikkid!~
Even limewire is a good tool too - sometimes a few bugs... but i LOVE MUSIC and it luvs me!
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| maxtuh |
| i rather download:D |
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| starsearcher |
| quote: | Originally posted by dallastar
I have used i tunes for the longest time - it is super wikkid!~
Even limewire is a good tool too - sometimes a few bugs... but i LOVE MUSIC and it luvs me!
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iTunes is my pic for the media player...especially how Apple uses it to show you movie previews, you can watch free music videos, and lots more...besides the database model for music is just aweome! iPod + iTunes =  |
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| rabbitjoker |
iTunes vs. Puretracks: The downloading duel begins!
12/2/2004 5:00:00 PM - Apple's popular service makes a belated Canadian debut, while Moontaxi signs up more carrier partners. Analysts discuss the competitive landscape for digital music delivery
The music download market became more crowded Thursday with the Canadian launch of iTunes and expanded ISP partnerships for Puretracks.
Eagerly anticipated north of the border, iTunes actually launched a few days later than expected, having missed its initial deadline of late November. But
the download service provided by Apple Computer Inc. is likely to find a foothold in Canada thanks to shrewd marketing and a well known presence in the U.S., according to analysts.
Apple's handheld music device, iPod, has already found an audience here. It's a simple matter to provide content for the Canadian market through iTunes, said Apple's vice-president of applications, Eddy Cue.
There will be some differences in music selection in Canada, said Cue, and the iTunes store will highlight popular Canadian artists like Alanis Morissette, Diana Krall and the Tragically Hip.
Apple has set its Canadian pricing at 99 cents, which works out slightly cheaper than the American pricing of US$0.99 per track.
Toronto-based Moontaxi Media, the developer of Puretracks, meanwhile has expanded its ISP partnership base in Canada to include Sasktel and Aliant. Broadband customers of the telecommunications providers can use the Puretracks service to download music with prices starting at 79 cents per track.
Moontaxi launched the Puretracks service in October 2003 and quickly formed partnerships with Bell Canada and Telus. The company will announce alliances with two more telecommunications providers on Friday, bringing its coverage of the Canadian broadband market up to 90 per cent.
Bringing the service to Canadians through partnerships was Moontaxi's strategy from the beginning, said Moontaxi co-CEO Alistair Mitchell. "It's just our fundamental belief that working with ISPs that have a large population of high-speed users can promote our music effectively."
The telcos that offer Puretracks to their subscriber base also benefit. Most Canadian providers have been looking for a way to add services above and beyond Internet access that they can charge for, said Elroy Joping, telecommunications analyst with Gartner Canada.
"With voice, they were very good at it. They came out with call answering, call forwarding and the cash registers rang every month. They've never found anything as good with the whole broadband area," he said.
"We've talked to our customers about what they want to do online and what they want to be able to access and certainly music is a growing piece of that," said Heather Tulk, vice-president of broadband marketing for Halifax-based Aliant.
"Music is growing in terms of demand, particularly in the youth segment, so we thought we could have a part to play in terms of making it easier for those customers to find what they want."
Music downloading represents a possible revenue stream for telcos like Aliant, said Jopling, "but will it be significant? Not at the present time."
The downloading market -- the legal downloading market, at least -- is still in its infancy, and the preferred delivery method is subject to change. David Card, an analyst at New York City-based JupiterResearch, said that the majority of downloaders still use online music services as a way to sample a few tracks then go out and buy an actual CD.
The research firm's five-year forecast suggests that in the future music lovers may be looking for subscription-based services that could offer unlimited downloads for a regular fee or provide something akin to an Internet radio service.
"As more of the (music ownership) rights get cleared and are available on these (subscription) services, you'll have this mythical, celestial jukebox where you'll be able to listen to anything you want to at any time," said Card. "There's some new technology on the horizon which would enable that to be portable."
In the meantime, the a la carte model of music downloading is expected to grow with Apple as the undisputed leader (the firm claims a 70 per cent market share in the U.S.).
"One of the reasons that Apple has been so successful, besides the fact that they have the best device in the business, is that they spent millions and millions of dollars on advertising," said Card, adding that for other providers to compete, "there's going to have to be some serious marketing."
Mitchell said he welcomes Apple to the Canadian market since it boosts the profile of music downloading overall. Moontaxi recently made Puretracks available in the U.S. and is expected to announce American partnerships soon. |
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| rabbitjoker |
I recommend that EVERYBODY who buys music from iTunes also get iOpener.
http://hymn-project.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=203
iOpener is an application that will find all of the “protected” AAC files in your iTunes library (the ones you purchased online) and remove the DRM (encryption) from them “in place”, allowing you to enjoy the music you’ve purchased on any device anywhere that supports the standard AAC format. This means that you will notice no change whatsoever in iTunes except that the “type” of the track will change from “Protected AAC audio file” to “AAC audio file.” Additionally, iOpener can run in the background (in your task tray, actually) and auto-decrypt any “protected” AAC files as they are added to your iTunes library. |
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| rabbitjoker |
http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthr...09&page=1&pp=15
I have converted the music I downloaded from iTunes from M4P to MP3. It works PERFECTLY !!!! The thing that's good, is that once you converted them, you can put too many MP3 songs in your MP3 player!! What I mean is : I converted a song (A Storm Is Coming from the Lord Of The Rings). The size in M4P was 2860 KB and in MP3 it's only 995 KB and the quality did not change !!! |
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| rabbitjoker |
| Bye bye HMV. The end is near. |
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