iTunes for Windows due next month

SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
edited September 2003 in Science & Tech
Newsweek has reported that Apple expects to release iTunes for Windows next month.
"Apple has quietly informed some music insiders that it’s moved up the date for expanding its current Mac-only iTunes for the vast universe of Windows-based PCs to mid-October," as it discusses the recent lawsuits by the record companies against individuals and the future of music: "Technology is creating new markets for music as well. The music giants are banking on an exploding U.S. market for dialing up music on cell phones—in effect, you would use your phone as a portable player. It’s already a multibillion-dollar business in Europe and Japan."

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  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    what format do itunes songs come in as?
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited September 2003
    .AAC format I think.
  • LawnMMLawnMM Colorado
    edited September 2003
    Gay. When you can download them in .mp3 at a decent bit rate and the cost is like 50 cents, let me know.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    .AAC = 128kbps MP3s played through a CB radio and recorded by a playskool microphone.
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited September 2003
    Thrax: So, in other words ".AAC = crap?"
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    Yeah.

    But the <s>lemmings</s> <s>blindly-following idiots</s> <s>ignorant fools</s> <s>people who are lead around like total tools</s> Mac users love it.

    Like most things that are Apple, and crappy.
  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    i agree that on the whole apple users are lemmings who do what the Jobs tells em (buy my new $17,000 g54 imac, it's the bestest computer evar, and it'll even run doom 2!!!!@!@!) but have you actually heard a .AAC? I haven't, i'm just curious whether you have or not.
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    You may find this interesting..........

    http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?showtopic=13127&

    Using -

    Ahead/Nero 6.0.0.15 HE AAC VBR profile Streaming :: Medium, high quality
    Ogg Vorbis post-1.0 CVS -q 0
    MP3pro (from Adobe Audition 1.0) VBR quality 40, Current Codec, allow M/S and IS, allow narrowing, no CRC
    Real Audio Gecko (from Real Producer 9.0.1 64kbps
    Windows Media Audio v9 VBR quality 50
    QuickTime 6.3 AAC LC 64kbps, Best Quality
    Lame MP3 encoder 3.90.3 --alt-preset 128 --scale 1. high anchor
    FhG MP3 encoder (from Adobe Audition 1.0) 64kbps CBR, Current codec, allow M/S, no I/S, allow narrowing, no CRC. bottom anchor


    NS
  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    very interesting, I will have to try this when I get home. I didn't know .AAC would work on PCs
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    kanezfan said
    very interesting, I will have to try this when I get home. I didn't know .AAC would work on PCs

    Anything can work on everything as long as there is software to decode it.

    NS
  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    well i did a couple of the tests and to be honest I didn't hear any difference. and I played music for 7 years. i say a lot of people make more of this stuff than there really is. it either sounds like crap or it doesn't, there are too many fanboys out there.
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    kanezfan said
    well i did a couple of the tests and to be honest I didn't hear any difference. and I played music for 7 years. i say a lot of people make more of this stuff than there really is. it either sounds like crap or it doesn't, there are too many fanboys out there.

    Heh. Did you do the Yellow Taxi test? (Sample Set 1).

    I thought 3 of them sounded really crap, 1 was quite bad, 1 was noticable but not annoying, and the rest sounded fine (though not all perfect). Though I did pass the ABX tests everytime I took them. I think I just have sensitive hearing.

    NS
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