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The Final Word on Digital Music Stores...Until TomorrowIn his wonderful review of digital music stores, Brian Biggs offers this witty bit of wisdom:
If you plan on adhering to the licenses and restrictions from each service then you should read their EULAs closely, and maybe get a lawyer. Especially if you plan on using BuyMusic, a service which has various rights for the songs purchased through its service. It's one thing to have the confusion of different rights for songs purchased through different services, it's another altogether to be confused by about what you can and can't do with two different songs purchased through the same digital music store. Imagine buying two CDs at BestBuy and being told you can listen to one CD anywhere--your car, you home stereo, your walkman, anywhere--and the other you can only listen to by playing it from your computer's CD-ROM drive. You'd scream bloody murder, right? Or at least, you'd probably think twice about buying the second CD or even shopping at Best Buy for CDs again. One point Brian makes that I don't entirely agree with, however, is that the iTunes radio stations are "worth nothing". It's understandable that he makes this point, since he tests the digital music services using Windows and probably hasn't used the iTunes radio service for very long. iTunes has a fine list of Internet radio stations--it's certainly not as all-encompassing as Live365 or Shoutcast, but it's certainly worth firing up in the morning, especially if you don't want to search the web for stations everyday--and you can add more stations to your playlist, so that once you've "tuned in" to an Internet radio station like VoyagerRadio using iTunes, the station will remain in your playlist until you remove it. So the next time you listen you want to listen to that station, simply fire up iTunes rather than your browser to listen to it. iTunes certainly has some limitations, however, as do all audio players. For one, iTunes doesn't support mp3PRO, an audio format that improves upon the MP3 format. You'll still be able to listen to mp3PRO stations using iTunes, but you won't hear the actual sound enhancements that mp3PRO offers. For that, you'll have to get a compatible player. But iTunes certainly makes it easier to tune in to your favorite Internet radio stations every day.
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