Ext User(Horry)
08-01-2008, 05:04 PM
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 19:03:12 -0800 (PST), fran wrote:
> My 14-year-old got an MP3 player (not an iPod) fro Christmans.
>
> I'm now looking at the most practcable legal and safe way to get him
> some music. I don't mind paying whatever the going rate is, but I'm
> keen to avoid
>
> a) breaching copyright
> b) malware on my PC
> c) huge download costs (which end up slowing down my access)
>
> I don't know where I got the idea from but I beleived it was possible
> to walk into a music shop, plug in your MP3, and for a fee dowload
> what you wanted. Is this not so? It should be.
Sanity offer this. They have little kiosks around their stores. You can
also burn the songs onto a blank CD (for a nominal extra fee to cover the
cost of the blank CD - between one to two dollars, IIRC).
> I checked out iTunes with the older boy, and he said it was basically
> bloatware and also that the files were no transferable. (Is this
> right?)
I've never used iTunes, but I have bought music online with DRM copyright
protection. I found the DRM to be unreliable (Vista refused to recognize
that I had a valid certificate, but let me play the music anyway) and, when
it did work, to be a PITA (backing up certificates, etc).
So I no longer buy music that way.
Admittedly, I didn't put much effort into fiddling around with the
certificates -- but they certainly weren't working the way they were
supposed to.
Now I just buy CDs and format shift them to MP3 files.
> My 14-year-old got an MP3 player (not an iPod) fro Christmans.
>
> I'm now looking at the most practcable legal and safe way to get him
> some music. I don't mind paying whatever the going rate is, but I'm
> keen to avoid
>
> a) breaching copyright
> b) malware on my PC
> c) huge download costs (which end up slowing down my access)
>
> I don't know where I got the idea from but I beleived it was possible
> to walk into a music shop, plug in your MP3, and for a fee dowload
> what you wanted. Is this not so? It should be.
Sanity offer this. They have little kiosks around their stores. You can
also burn the songs onto a blank CD (for a nominal extra fee to cover the
cost of the blank CD - between one to two dollars, IIRC).
> I checked out iTunes with the older boy, and he said it was basically
> bloatware and also that the files were no transferable. (Is this
> right?)
I've never used iTunes, but I have bought music online with DRM copyright
protection. I found the DRM to be unreliable (Vista refused to recognize
that I had a valid certificate, but let me play the music anyway) and, when
it did work, to be a PITA (backing up certificates, etc).
So I no longer buy music that way.
Admittedly, I didn't put much effort into fiddling around with the
certificates -- but they certainly weren't working the way they were
supposed to.
Now I just buy CDs and format shift them to MP3 files.