iTunes4 & Music Store

[xyle_one]

wow. very nice. iTunes has a small facelift, cleaner interface, plus Music Store. so far, i really dig music store. though, i have had a little trouble accessing the library, but i am sure that will be fixed. .99 a song is not bad, and it is all aac, which is smaller than mp3. i wonder if i can convert that into mp3. anyways, it looks like you can buy whole cds for a good price too. .99 for each track, and 20+ tracks a cd could get rediculous, but it seems like there is a discount for buying the whole thing. cool. i could very well get into this service. no version for other systems yet. so you will have to wait. i do not know if a linux version will be available, and i will be alittle annoyed if they dont write one.

the new iPods are very cool as well. lighter than 2 cds, and holds 30gigs worth of mp3 & aac. too cool. and it now has a dock, for easier transfering between mac & iPod. so, it looks like im going to dump some money into apple soon  

[bossesjoe]

quote:Originally posted by ecsyle:
wow. very nice. iTunes has a small facelift, cleaner interface, plus Music Store. so far, i really dig music store. though, i have had a little trouble accessing the library, but i am sure that will be fixed. .99 a song is not bad, and it is all aac, which is smaller than mp3. i wonder if i can convert that into mp3. anyways, it looks like you can buy whole cds for a good price too. .99 for each track, and 20+ tracks a cd could get rediculous, but it seems like there is a discount for buying the whole thing. cool. i could very well get into this service. no version for other systems yet. so you will have to wait. i do not know if a linux version will be available, and i will be alittle annoyed if they dont write one.

the new iPods are very cool as well. lighter than 2 cds, and holds 30gigs worth of mp3 & aac. too cool. and it now has a dock, for easier transfering between mac & iPod. so, it looks like im going to dump some money into apple soon    

Very true, I am buying one too, but I wonder if the 10 gigs can use the dock?  And also I don't like the font in itunes4, too grainy

[Pissed_Macman]

Wow!!   :eek:  

Except I think there's something wrong with the search engine in the music store. I found System of a Down stuff okay, but then I searched for White Stripes and it gave me no matches, then for the heck of it I searched for metallica and it also returned no matches!! I could also find the Vines perfectly.

As for iTunes 4, very nice. I was looking at the Visualizer and was thinking it had some new patterns. Very cool, although I'm not very fond of the new green color scheme.

[Pantso]

I just finished downloading it and I have to say that it looks nice as always. I haven't tried the music store yet, but I have to admit that I don't like this aac stuff. I'm usually very reluctant when it comes to proprietary formats and this certainly looks like one.   :rolleyes:   I'll do some search to see if I can convert them to MP3s.

[Pantso]

Why do I suddenly feel neglected?  

[cocoamix]

The playlist streaming feature rocks. My friends and I are all checking out each other's collections.

[xyle_one]

quote:Originally posted by Panos:
Why do I suddenly feel neglected?      

weak  

[Pantso]

quote:Originally posted by ecsyle:

weak    

Apple must have something against my country. Not only don't they officially support Greek, they don't list Greece on their official site.   :eek:  

As I found out, the reason for that kind of poor support was the low percentage of sales in Greece, a situation that has recently started changing. Hopefully, one day we might make it to Apple's music store.  

[Pissed_Macman]

That sucks! This did just start today though. I'm sure it won't be long.

[Pantso]

quote:Originally posted by Macman: HAS 1000 POSTS:
That sucks! This did just start today though. I'm sure it won't be long.

Well, I like to believe so myself.   :rolleyes:   I'm really starting to get jealous of you guys. Looks like every Mac related boards I visit (hell, even Slashdot) today, have threads about how great the Music store feature is etc.  

[billy_gates]

I love it, just love it, I doubt I will use it much, I still have a thing about having a physical copy and full on CD quality, instead of slightly less quality compressed.  Although I do have my list in mp3, just because I don't want it to use the whole damn hard drive.

[bossesjoe]

quote:Originally posted by Macman: HAS 1000 POSTS:
Except I think there's something wrong with the search engine in the music store. I found System of a Down stuff okay, but then I searched for White Stripes and it gave me no matches, then for the heck of it I searched for metallica and it also returned no matches!! I could also find the Vines perfectly

Nothing wrong with the search engine, its just that Metallica hasn't signed with the record labels that are involed with this whole thing. I don't think apple isn't making the money, its the labels, apple is doing this for:
1) Bringing music to mac users legally
2)Pioneering a new legal download service

[Pissed_Macman]

quote:Originally posted by bossesjoe:


Nothing wrong with the search engine, its just that Metallica hasn't signed with the record labels that are involed with this whole thing. I don't think apple isn't making the money, its the labels, apple is doing this for:
1) Bringing music to mac users legally
2)Pioneering a new legal download service

Yeah I knew that...

[billy_gates]

quote:Originally posted by Panos:
I just finished downloading it and I have to say that it looks nice as always. I haven't tried the music store yet, but I have to admit that I don't like this aac stuff. I'm usually very reluctant when it comes to proprietary formats and this certainly looks like one.    :rolleyes:    I'll do some search to see if I can convert them to MP3s.

Isn't MP3 proprietary as well.  If only apple would support Ogg vorbis, that would be cool.

[Crunchy(Cracked)Butter]

just placed on order for the 15GB ipod.

The 10GB ipods are the new ones as well and they can use the dock if you want it to, the advantage of the dock is that it has another firewire port for daisy chaining, unlike the older ipod which took up the one port.  Bonus for ibook owners like me!