Re: Apple Computer changes its name

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <20070113172434210+1300@News.Individual.NET>,
Roger Johnstone  <roger@roger.geek.nz.removethisbit> wrote:

> In <1168590223.853192.306910@51g2000cwl.googlegroups.com> bieling@terra.
> es wrote:
>> 
>> Paul Schlyter ha escrito:
>> 
>>> But what if I wanted to play my music on some other brand of portable
>>> music player (Creative, Iriver, Sandisk, whatever) ?   Then my music
>>> library becomes inaccessible.   Suppose you decided to switch e.g.
>>> your Sony CD player to a Philips CD player for whatever reason, and
>>> then you found out that your entire CD collection was unplayable on
>>> the Philips CD player - it could be played only on a Sony CD player.
>>> What would you think about that?
>> 
>> But you can, from within iTunes, transcode the music between WAV, AIFF,
>> mp3, AAC or Apple lossless. Even if it's a protected file (a music 
>> file that you've bought in the iTunes Store).
> 
> No, sorry you can't. The iTunes application will transcode unprotected 
> music tracks, but the iTunes Store only sells music in a protected AAC 
> format which Apple calls FairPlay. These can be played on up to five 
> authorised computers using the iTunes application, played on any iPod 
> synchronised to any of these computers, and burned to an audio CD.
> 
> Without some sort of cracking software the only way around the DRM is to 
> play the audio and re-record it, or to burn it to a CD and rip it back 
> from there. Either way involves recompressing the audio for a further 
> loss in quality, unless you use a lossless codec which will only achieve 
> about 50% compression.

You just made a strong point for the traditional audio CD record.... it
can be encoded as many times as you want into various compressed digital
formats, with no or negligible quality loss compared to if it had been
encoded to that compressed format directly.

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