Bye, Bye ITMS??
This past week I have decided to no longer purchase music from Apple's iTunes Music Store because of its insane DRM license to satisfy RIAA. I love iTunes to manage my music and to browse music but to purchase DRM music is just painful. I know that ITMS has some DRM-free music but I just do not have time and do not want to figure out which song is DRM'd and which is DRM-free.
Although I have an iPod and can move purchased music there, I wanted to move MY music to my Blackberry so that I do not have to carry 2 devices. Well, it took me over an hour to create a playlist, burn the CD, rip the CD, get song titles and finally move music to Blackberry. Ouch! that did it! I'm done.
To be honest its been quite a while since I've purchased music from ITMS and have instead been buying music from Amazon because it is DRM-free and I can move the music to my Blackberry or iPod without the burn/rip thingees. I like Amazon's digital music service because it's easy to use and they have REAL deals and free music is always free, not just for one week like ITMS.
What do you think? Am I nuts?
2 comments:
DRM sucks. And there are certainly a lot of people that feel the way you do, so no, you are not nuts. You have an immediate need that iTMS isn't working well with, so I completely understand. I've heard that a number of people shop in iTMS, but buy in Amazon. Probably not a bad strategy.
Long term though, I think iTMS is a pretty safe bet. It became the #1 music retail store earlier this year, surpassing BestBuy, Walmart, & Amazon. I figure any incompatibility there is today, will only be less in the future. And for the foreseeable future, I listen to my music in iPods or directly from iTunes.
Agree. I still think that iTunes is the BEST way to manage my music. I also shop in ITMS and buy from Amazon. I think the most important thing about non-DRM MP3s is that it is portable to any device...
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