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Dear Apple,
I have no problem paying for music. I really don't. Never have. I just hate DRM. Refuse to play any locked music, ever. It's not that I want to share music (though I sometimes do); I just like to be able to play things wherever I want. Plus, it's the principle of the thing. So back when JHymn worked on iTunes-purchased songs, I happily bought from you. When you blocked out JHymn, you stopped getting my money.
I still held out hope that I'd come back to you. You're the market leader, after all. For a year or more I've really had no good alternative. I may have downloaded some music through some less-than-industry-supported means, shall we say. And I never did stop buying and ripping CDs on occasion. But for the most part I just got less music. A shame, really.
But now I hear that Amazon has a new digital music store. MP3-based. No DRM (which might not even be possible to put on MP3s anyway). And it's even cheaper than you. I've tried it already, and it's quite nice.
Sorry, Apple. It's over. For good. You're off my speed dial.
Love,
Desh
I have no problem paying for music. I really don't. Never have. I just hate DRM. Refuse to play any locked music, ever. It's not that I want to share music (though I sometimes do); I just like to be able to play things wherever I want. Plus, it's the principle of the thing. So back when JHymn worked on iTunes-purchased songs, I happily bought from you. When you blocked out JHymn, you stopped getting my money.
I still held out hope that I'd come back to you. You're the market leader, after all. For a year or more I've really had no good alternative. I may have downloaded some music through some less-than-industry-supported means, shall we say. And I never did stop buying and ripping CDs on occasion. But for the most part I just got less music. A shame, really.
But now I hear that Amazon has a new digital music store. MP3-based. No DRM (which might not even be possible to put on MP3s anyway). And it's even cheaper than you. I've tried it already, and it's quite nice.
Sorry, Apple. It's over. For good. You're off my speed dial.
Love,
Desh
you're blaming the wrong people
i've stayed away from everything that is DRM. which is why i am a music pirate in addition to my emusic subscription and CD and direct-from-the-band buys. i don't need itunes' management capabilities either, file folders do the job for me. ratings? i am not a critic, i don't rank my music; i am either in the mood for a song or not, and no fiddling with trying to slap a classification system (beyond reasonably fine-grained genre) in there can determine that for me. i'm no longer an audiophile, 256k/VBR is good enough for my elderly ears and the headphones through which i play it all back.
if i were still on windows, winamp 1.0 would be fine.