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Author Topic: The Mad Raging Music Media Battle  (Read 12517 times)

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Re: The Mad Raging Music Media Battle
« Reply #60 on: January 08, 2013, 10:18:23 pm »
I can get my Amazon stuff onto any device that can get on the internet. I don't know how that differs from how iTunes does it though, I don't have any Apple stuff.

I have to say I sort of miss the printed CD inserts. But I don't miss not being able to find the CD I want among the dozens (or hundreds if I include the Tech Staff's stuff) that are all over the house.
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Re: The Mad Raging Music Media Battle
« Reply #61 on: January 08, 2013, 10:25:27 pm »
Quote from: jaydub on January 08, 2013, 10:16:21 pm
Can't you have Itunes import a stand-alone mp3?  I thought I had done this a while back, but maybe it was something else.

Yes, but AFAIK you can't store it in the cloud once you've imported it, so you have to transfer it manually.
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Re: The Mad Raging Music Media Battle
« Reply #62 on: January 08, 2013, 11:03:23 pm »
i care so little about purchasing music that i only listen to pandora and grooveshark.
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Re: The Mad Raging Music Media Battle
« Reply #63 on: January 09, 2013, 12:50:44 am »
I think iTunes was pretty heinous about DRM back in the day and were also super expensive. I use Amazon and have had no troubles so far.
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Re: The Mad Raging Music Media Battle
« Reply #64 on: January 09, 2013, 01:06:47 am »
Their cloud, their rules I guess.  Its just another opportunity for Google to eat their lunch though.
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Re: The Mad Raging Music Media Battle
« Reply #65 on: January 09, 2013, 02:26:27 am »
soulseek for piracy.  amazon for legit purchasing if its not available to steal.  i am a music-stealing prick.
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Re: The Mad Raging Music Media Battle
« Reply #66 on: January 09, 2013, 04:35:22 am »
I try my damnedest to only pirate things that there are no legitimate ways to easily obtain.

If it's something that's out of print and 300 dollars on the secondary market or if it's just so obscure that there's no way to get it or, y'know, it's a bootleg live thing or a demo or something that's leaked that there is no "legal" version of, I'll pirate that stuff.

If I can get it at a price that isn't inflated by the collectors market and without having to make a day job of obtaining it, I pay for it.

There's probably been a few times when I played fast and loose with the "easy to obtain" part but later I'd buy it legit in those cases.
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Re: The Mad Raging Music Media Battle
« Reply #67 on: January 09, 2013, 05:15:03 am »
I just sit at my desk and listen to music on YouTube all day.  Or watch Gomer Pyle.
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Re: The Mad Raging Music Media Battle
« Reply #68 on: January 10, 2013, 08:30:48 am »
I thought a lot about what makes something "pretentious" while my boss at work lectured me about how I need to work on my latte art, because that is a huge part of the "coffee shop experience."

My drinks are fuck*ng delicious, but I can't even make a little rippley wave design on top. I am having a hard time caring. Today I learned that I am not included on the manager's mostly-secret list of the "most promotable" employees, and I would like to imagine it is because of my lack of latte art.

(it is probably actually because when I haven't had a customer in 15 minutes I read Moby Dick, instead of polishing the counter for the 20th time. Little do they know, coffee jerks who read books at work are an important part of the "coffee shop experience.")
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Re: The Mad Raging Music Media Battle
« Reply #69 on: January 10, 2013, 04:03:35 pm »
I've been an eMusic member since 1999 and I'm happy with it. I'm actually a little sad they they have all the major labels now because their sales charts used to be a really good way to discover new-to-me artists. Now it's all Taylor Swift etc. I refuse to buy proprietary files from iTunes so Amazon is my back up.

For whoever was complaining about a harddrive in a dead desktop like 3 pages ago, have you tried putting the drive in an external enclosure? http://www.newegg.com/External-Enclosures/SubCategory/ID-92
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Re: The Mad Raging Music Media Battle
« Reply #70 on: January 10, 2013, 04:05:05 pm »
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Re: The Mad Raging Music Media Battle
« Reply #71 on: January 10, 2013, 04:34:34 pm »
I was beginning to wonder what was wrong with us that this thread was on topic for six pages.
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Re: The Mad Raging Music Media Battle
« Reply #72 on: January 10, 2013, 04:42:17 pm »
And just today there's this: http://consumerist.com/2013/01/10/ever-bought-a-cd-from-amazon-it-might-be-eligible-for-free-mp3-conversion/

(Amazon will provide a free mp3 copy of most CDs you purchase or have purchased since 1998)
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Re: The Mad Raging Music Media Battle
« Reply #73 on: January 10, 2013, 05:57:35 pm »
Whoa. I just went and they did that thing, automatically. I am a happy customer.
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Re: The Mad Raging Music Media Battle
« Reply #74 on: January 10, 2013, 06:22:05 pm »
Too bad I've already done that. When I got my first iPod I ripped about 2 thousand cds to mp3.
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