Sometimes it sucks not to have a Mac.
Apple's new music service is out and only Mac people get to play.
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Posted by michael at April 28, 2003 11:12 AM | TrackBackFor now. Like the iPod, I have no doubt it will be opened up to PC users in the near future.
Posted by: alan [http://www.geekandproud.net/] on April 28, 2003 11:19 AMSometimes it's also good to NOT have a mac... I've already dropped way way too much money on music in the last twenty minutes of looking around the Apple Music Store, they make it way too freaking easy, a buck a song adds up REALLY quick.
Posted by: Keith [http://unrelatednews.com/] on April 28, 2003 12:10 PMWhy don't you just use the iBook you ordered April 1st? No, we haven't forgotten.
Posted by: Mister P. [http://misterp.blogspot.com] on April 28, 2003 04:03 PMIt is indeed easy to plunk down a bunch of bucks on downloads.
I figure it's going to a good cause to show the recording industry that honest people do download music and pay for it if given a chance.
Now, it remains to see exactly how encumbered by DRM the files will be.
Posted by: Dino [http://www.thompsonian.org/blog] on April 28, 2003 10:30 PMFrom what I was told yesterday by Happy Mac Owners, the AAC files can be converted to MP3 or burned to CDs without DRM concerns.
I have yet to see it for myself.
This is the first music download service I've actually been interested in - tried it last night. It is indeed too easy to buy music, one-click ordering at its finest. I did a whole album too and burned to CD, sounded great! I'm going to rip to MP3 tonight just to compare quality. So far, no DRM related hassles.
Posted by: Elisabeth [] on April 29, 2003 03:51 PMYes I am a biased Mac user. But wow is it fast easy and scary to buy songs like this. In general testing, I found about half of the songs I was searching for, and bought 4. The library needs to grow, but the foundation is there.
Posted by: Mister P. [http://misterp.blogspot.com] on April 30, 2003 11:09 AM