Comments on: Amazon launches iTunes music store competitor

By: fifiward

fifiward — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:06:57 +0000

I purchase music from iTunes for years. I hate DRM since I don’t have an iPod. I have to burn all music on CD and then rip back. It is a waste of both time and disc. First I use CD-R disc, but then I find it is more economical to use RW disc, finally I turn to virtual disc, aha , no disc is needed at all.

PS: Tim, you may write something to introduce a virtual burning program called NoteBurner and it is for burning iTunes music on virtual disc and I think it will be useful for many people. Just a suggestion!

By: Paul Morriss

Paul Morriss — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:18:17 +0000

I wondered if it would be US only. Good thing I’m visiting the US in the next few weeks. I just hope they take my UK credit card. Maybe not. Perhaps it’s time to earn some cash with Mechanical Turk.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:43:33 +0000

256 is not “a little better” than 128. It’s a huge difference, being difficult to distinguish from formats that are not “lossy”.

I was presuming that AAC is better than MP3 at any given bitrate; and allowing for the fact that one person’s “huge difference” is another person’s “little better”, or even indistinguishable. But I agree, it is definitely an improvement.

Tim

By: Nico

Nico — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:27:39 +0000

256 is not “a little better” than 128. It’s a huge difference, being difficult to distinguish from formats that are not “lossy”.