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Thread ID: 80397 2007-06-21 07:59:00 Media Player Issues! passtheblunt (12438) Press F1
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561357 2007-06-22 08:44:00 Very true David, but you have forgotten one thing, MS haven't done it Yes, I know they haven't, I said if they did :)


That's a very big "IF" TEoR. Considering that Microsoft has tried DRM with it's Plays for Sure wma stores which bombed only to move onto it's highly restrictive DRM on the Zune which has also bombed and the DRM by default on WMP11. Do you ever get the feeling that maybe Microsoft likes restrictive DRM and that they are going to stay on the DRM path? (it keeps the RIAA happy)

The biggest easiest place to get DRM free music would be the iTunes store followed by Amazon I believe as well as a number of MP3 stores that are online. It might well be, but in the PC world there is nothing that is impossible ;) So what? They obviously didn't do it RIGHT then :rolleyes: There is a 'right', a 'wrong' and a 'not right and not wrong' way to do things... MS obviously hasn't done it the right way have they? :rolleyes: they CAN do it the right way, they have the potential, but IF they do or not is up to them
The_End_Of_Reality (334)
561358 2007-06-22 09:07:00 MS obviously hasn't done it the right way have they? :rolleyes: they CAN do it the right way, they have the potential, but IF they do or not is up to them

Yes they might get it eventually. But why wait for that to happen when eventually could be eternity. I guess it just depends on how many hundreds of millions their share holders are willing to let them waste while they try to gain any form of market share in the online music download business. You never know, they may eventually be forced to follow the rest of the pack and start selling DRM free music when people completely stop buying any music from music stores that only sell MS supported music which is DRM'd and restrictive in how many devices you can play it on. DRM free music coded in aac will play on any device that supports aac (including Creative):)
winmacguy (3367)
561359 2007-06-22 09:15:00 Oops I just checked. Creative doesn't appear to support aac.:( winmacguy (3367)
561360 2007-06-22 10:08:00 At least Creative supports more filetypes that Apple :rolleyes: Anything on this PC mediawise my Zen can play :D If I had an iPod EVERYTHING would need converting... what a waste of my time :groan: The_End_Of_Reality (334)
561361 2007-06-22 10:35:00 At least Creative supports more filetypes that Apple :rolleyes: Anything on this PC mediawise my Zen can play :D If I had an iPod EVERYTHING would need converting... what a waste of my time :groan:

Actually TEoR according to the Creative website the Zen only supports MP3, wma and wav + jpgs
The iPod supports wav,aac,h.264,mp3,apple lossless and aiff which would be more than Creative and it's cross platform. I think your getting confused by the fact that aac is the default codec for the iPod which you just need to change to MP3 if you want to import your tracks in a generic codec that will play on any device.
:)
winmacguy (3367)
561362 2007-06-22 10:54:00 I was talking filetypes in general... including VIDEOS... the iPod only supports MPV, MP4 and MOV where as the Zen supports MPEG 1,2,4 WMV 9, AVI, DivX, Xvid (most common codecs out there!).

Meh, I consider iPods CRAP because you HAVE to change things to what you want and this is not on the threads topic so the disscussion...

>>>>ENDS HERE<<<< >>>>NO ARGUEMENTS<<<<
The_End_Of_Reality (334)
561363 2007-06-22 11:08:00 I think YouTube might be going to change that in the not too distant future. ;) winmacguy (3367)
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