help me I just can't stop laughing

Hilary Rosen, formerly of the RIAA writes:

[link|http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/2005/05/steve-jobs-let-.html|http://www.huffingto...ve-jobs-let-.html]

There are lots of places you can go for great music at good deals and with a deep catalog of songs from over the last 20 or 30 years. MSN.com, Rhapsody.com, aolmusic.com, even walmart.com. There are little players to make your favorite music even more portable than ever starting at as little as 29 bucks. Most every player device works at every one of these \ufffdstores\ufffd and it is pretty easy to keep all the songs, no matter where you got them, in a single folder or "jukebox" on your computer.

But not the iPod. Most agree it is the best quality player on the market even if the cheapest one costs a few hundred dollars. The problem is that the iPod only works with either songs that you buy from the on-line Apple iTunes store or songs that you rip from your own CD\ufffds. But those other music sites have lots of music that you can\ufffdt get at the iTunes store. So, if you have an iPod, you are out of luck. If you are really a geek, you can figure out how to strip the songs you might have bought from another on-line store of all identifying information so that they will go into the iPod. But then you have also degraded the sound quality. How cruel.
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Post #206,732 by tuberculosis 5/10/05 1:08:05 AM Reply	help me I just can't stop laughing Hilary Rosen, formerly of the RIAA writes: [link\|http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/2005/05/steve-jobs-let-.html\|http://www.huffingto...ve-jobs-let-.html] There are lots of places you can go for great music at good deals and with a deep catalog of songs from over the last 20 or 30 years. MSN.com, Rhapsody.com, aolmusic.com, even walmart.com. There are little players to make your favorite music even more portable than ever starting at as little as 29 bucks. Most every player device works at every one of these \ufffdstores\ufffd and it is pretty easy to keep all the songs, no matter where you got them, in a single folder or "jukebox" on your computer. But not the iPod. Most agree it is the best quality player on the market even if the cheapest one costs a few hundred dollars. The problem is that the iPod only works with either songs that you buy from the on-line Apple iTunes store or songs that you rip from your own CD\ufffds. But those other music sites have lots of music that you can\ufffdt get at the iTunes store. So, if you have an iPod, you are out of luck. If you are really a geek, you can figure out how to strip the songs you might have bought from another on-line store of all identifying information so that they will go into the iPod. But then you have also degraded the sound quality. How cruel. =========== Careful what you wish for. "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
Post #206,734 by pwhysall 5/10/05 1:46:32 AM Reply	... Er. ...haha. Ahem. HAHAHA. Cackle. Shit. She's serious! /me falls over. Peter [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu Linux] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #206,735 by pwhysall 5/10/05 1:48:10 AM Reply	Also... How cute. A blog where you can't say "It's fuckin' WMA that's proprietary, you senseless mare!". Oh well. Expect the (ugh)macblogosphere(/ugh) to explode over this. Peter [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu Linux] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #206,756 by bepatient 5/10/05 7:28:00 AM 5/10/05 7:28:39 AM Reply	Agreed. WMA is worse than iPod ever will be. And iPods play mp3 and m4a formats (wish ogg was there...but whatever). And those young listeners only need download a free file converter to change those files to mp3 and make them available...except that they sell them at bit rates that suck to begin with...so OF COURSE they sound like shit. If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient] Edited by bepatient May 10, 2005, 07:28:39 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #206,740 by cforde 5/10/05 3:02:38 AM Reply	:-> Have fun, Carl Forde
Post #206,754 by CRConrad 5/10/05 6:27:41 AM Reply	Well, at least we're not alone. On the same site, Richard Bradley replies, asking, [link\|http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/2005/05/what-is-hilary-rosen-smok.html\|What is Hilary Rosen Smoking?]. [link\|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode\|Christian R. Conrad] (I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.) Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575\|Ashton Brown]
Post #206,786 by admin 5/10/05 10:51:41 AM Reply	It's a joke, says El Reg [link\|http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/09/rosen_joke_jobs/\|http://www.theregist.../rosen_joke_jobs/] Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #206,794 by pwhysall 5/10/05 12:02:36 PM Reply	Read it through British eyes. The Register article is being ironic. HTH ;-) Peter [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu Linux] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!

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