Creative Zen X-Fi: great MP3 player

[editor]

Because every interface for putting music on a phone ever, apart from the iPhone which is basically an iPod, is crap? (also the battery life thing)

Wasn't the iPod interface nicked from Creative in the first place?

 

[editor]

Well, no, most people get their songs from CDs or file-sharing etc surely? iTunes is just a music player.

I'd say that the figures - over 5 BILLION songs downloaded via iTunes by summer 08 - would strongly suggest that the vast majority of regular punters get their music through the iTunes service.

 

[editor]

Here's where Apple are with DRM right now:

The iTunes music library is looking a little shabby these days. Look around, Steve: iTunes is the last great refuge of DRM-laden downloads. Is this the image you want for Apple?

More than 18 months have passed since you signed your one and only deal to acquire music free of copy-protection software with a major recording company. And that was with EMI, which accounts for less than 9 percent of U.S. album sales and is the smallest of the four top music labels. In the meantime, Apple has continued to wrap the vast majority of major-label music in Fairplay, the company's proprietary digital rights management software, at a time when your major competitors have already signed DRM-free deals with all the big players.

http://news.cnet.com/8300-1023_3-93.html?keyword=The+Detroit+Free+Press

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I'd say that the figures - over 5 BILLION songs downloaded - would strongly suggest that the vast majority of regular punters get their music from iTunes.

I would say that this isn't the case at all. I have known... actually, no people ever, apart from myself, who have ever downloaded music from the iTunes Music Store. Clearly there are people who have downloaded one or more tracks but every single person that I know with an iPod, without a single exception, has the vast majority of their music library originating from ripped CDs and copying music off other people. Just like people who own any other damn music player.

 

[editor]

I would say that this isn't the case at all. I have known... actually, no people ever, apart from myself, who have ever downloaded music from the iTunes Music Store. Clearly there are people who have downloaded one or more tracks but every single person that I know with an iPod, without a single exception, has the vast majority of their music library originating from ripped CDs and copying music off other people. Just like people who own any other damn music player.

Yeah, but you hang around with computer savvy hipsters who could hand code an automated pair of walking underpants for fun.

Five billion is an awful lot of downloads.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Nobody I know with an iPod can torrent or soulseek to save their lives. "Hey fridge, I've got an iPod, I've put in all the MP3s that were on my flatmate's computer, have you got any music?"

 

[lunatrick]

tech tip for getting around the tiresome drm apple stuff and the not being able to share your library with other ipods....download itunes so you have the apple drivers...then manage the musci library with the latest version of winamp.