Re: [SurroundSound] Re: Dolby TrueHD upscaling

I don't go near iTunes either.  I use macs regularly but for reasons wholly unrelated to the iTunes ecosystem.  Anytime there is a decided shift to the 'cloud' I tend to get very suspicious.  If anything it gives the record companies even less overhead by having one copy of a file stored somewhere and streamed to everyone.  No distribution, just profit.  No product, just subscriptions.  Never ending revenue, no ownership, no overhead, no distribution--seems like a record label's wet dream.

On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 6:28 AM, RW <rlwainwright@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm with Lokks and RA on this one.  Everyone derides MS for being a
bully, but Apple has them beat 6 ways to Sunday.  Apple always wants
to control *every* aspect of your "experience" with them.  No thanks,
I can do some thinking on my own, if you please.  For this reason I
stick with open-source products like FooBar2000...

-RW-

On May 26, 9:11 am, realafrica <paul.gam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe iTunes is much improved in recent incarnations, but I took a
> dislike to it years ago, mostly for it's  'lock you in' approach, but
> I also dislike all lossy files anyway.
> I expect iTunes, as a way of storing/cataloging and playing a limited
> range of files is very good, but it is limited in it's range and
> although less 'locked in' than it used to be, still sucks from that
> point of view.
> I don't really trust them to redeem themselves 100%. So for me iTunes
> never gets installed on my HDD, not for many, many years now. It's a
> personal boycott if you like.
>
> On May 26, 6:56 am, "Steven Sullivan" <ssu...@panix.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Why is that?  AAC is a first-rate lossy codec; iTunes Store tracks have
> > been 256 kbps for a long time now, and DRM-free as well.  If lossy tracks
> > generally are what you object to, I get it, but iTunes Store tracks are
> > among the best of the bunch if you don't.
>
> > If you mean iTunes, the application, that's another issue.  It works
> > brilliantly for Mac user, less so for PC users.
>

> > >iTunes sucks! I wont have anything to do with it.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

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