Oops, I mean "discourage from purchasing" or "encourage not to purchase".
Ugh, need to read my posts closer before I hit send.
Paul
>>> pwilliamson (AT) mandtbank (DOT) com 06/08/04 10:16AM >>>
>>> civan93 (AT) gmail (DOT) com 06/08/04 10:03AM >>>
<snip>
>However the Apple product has one feature the Squeezebox does not. It
>can play songs from the iTMS. That is critical, perhaps not as much
>for we audio geeks, but it is to most everyone else. That has been a
>snare in trying to sell others on the Squeezebox. That and price.
I discourage everyone I know to not purchase from iTMS. I've let
multiple people hear the difference between a 128k mp3 and a flac
encoded file on my system and they instantly understand - at least
most people do. When I ask them what they plan on doing if they
want to listen to the music they purchased on a car stereo, a work
pc, a portable device, etc, the response is always "Um, I'm not sure -
burn them to a CD?" Yeah, that's great. Once mobile consumer audio
has either a usb port, a memory-stick or SD card interface and you
are able to avoid the whole media mess, you're SOL. Still need to burn
to a CD and then rip back to a PC. When the original file was 128, and
the rip gives the option for 320, it's quite a misnomer. And lot's of
unnecessary wasted file space to boot. I love macs and some of what
Apple does, but I really hate iTMS. Ironically, I like iTunes.
Paul
Ugh, need to read my posts closer before I hit send.
Paul
>>> pwilliamson (AT) mandtbank (DOT) com 06/08/04 10:16AM >>>
>>> civan93 (AT) gmail (DOT) com 06/08/04 10:03AM >>>
<snip>
>However the Apple product has one feature the Squeezebox does not. It
>can play songs from the iTMS. That is critical, perhaps not as much
>for we audio geeks, but it is to most everyone else. That has been a
>snare in trying to sell others on the Squeezebox. That and price.
I discourage everyone I know to not purchase from iTMS. I've let
multiple people hear the difference between a 128k mp3 and a flac
encoded file on my system and they instantly understand - at least
most people do. When I ask them what they plan on doing if they
want to listen to the music they purchased on a car stereo, a work
pc, a portable device, etc, the response is always "Um, I'm not sure -
burn them to a CD?" Yeah, that's great. Once mobile consumer audio
has either a usb port, a memory-stick or SD card interface and you
are able to avoid the whole media mess, you're SOL. Still need to burn
to a CD and then rip back to a PC. When the original file was 128, and
the rip gives the option for 320, it's quite a misnomer. And lot's of
unnecessary wasted file space to boot. I love macs and some of what
Apple does, but I really hate iTMS. Ironically, I like iTunes.
Paul