My Dell Digital Jukebox went belly-up last week. I'm trying to decide what to replace it with (Dell doesn't sell Jukeboxes in Australia). Obviously, my biggest concern is that I can continue to play all the music I recorded from my CDs (using Musicmatch) and downloaded from the internet (using Musicmatch). I'd be interested in getting an iPod, but my understanding is that its music format is incompatible. Is this correct? Does anyone know what I need to look for in a music box?
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billytea - Nov 30, 2005 12:29:10 pm PST #5778 of 10003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
tommyrot - Nov 30, 2005 12:32:40 pm PST #5779 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Apple has its own format (AAC) that the iTunes Music Store uses, but iPods can also play mp3s just fine, and iTunes can be set to record CDs in mp3 instead of AAC.
billytea - Nov 30, 2005 12:56:36 pm PST #5780 of 10003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I think I have files in .wma format too.
Gudanov - Nov 30, 2005 1:01:16 pm PST #5781 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
I'd think the Creative Zen products would work just fine for that.
NoiseDesign - Nov 30, 2005 1:06:59 pm PST #5782 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
On the PC iTunes will convert your .wma library over to AAC or to .mp3. The only issue arises on copy protected .wma files I believe.
billytea - Nov 30, 2005 1:10:09 pm PST #5783 of 10003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
On the PC iTunes will convert your .wma library over to AAC or to .mp3. The only issue arises on copy protected .wma files I believe.
Ah, ok. Some of the songs I bought and downloaded from Musicmatch or a similar Australian service. Will they be copy protected?
amych - Nov 30, 2005 1:16:17 pm PST #5784 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
BT, they will be, but you can work around it: [link]
Note that this almost surely violates the terms of something-or-other along the way, but these are tracks that you bought legally in the first place.
tommyrot - Nov 30, 2005 1:18:16 pm PST #5785 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I think the courts have determined that you can legally use circumvention technology to get access to stuff you bought. It's just illegal to publicize such circumvention technology.
§ ita § - Nov 30, 2005 1:20:25 pm PST #5786 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wait, so amych's the bad guy in this scenario? It's a harsh world.
amych - Nov 30, 2005 1:22:52 pm PST #5787 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Huh. And here I thought the cat was the evil one in this house.
And Tommyrot, that's good to hear -- one of my big philosophical issues with DRM as it's usually implemented is that it's gotten so normal to limit legal owners' access to their stuff in the name of keeping other people from doing something illegal with it.