Re: [MLUG] Apple Lossless Encoding?

[Josh <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Josh wrote:
>
>> One note about paying iTunes for songs - remember that they are not
>> free (as in speech) and you are at apple's whim to change how you can
>> listen to content you "own" at any time. They've done it before (see:
>> http://www.george.hotelling.net/90percent/digital_music/features_lost_in_itunes_upgrades.php
>>
>
>
> The music industry is despicable.  One thing worse than the music
> industry are the legislators who help them to abuse their customers.
>
I completely agree. You may find this interesting:
http://intricatereality.com/blog/node/12

It is a short write-up about one legislator who actually seems to "get
it." By the way, that site is on my old blog.. I do apologize for
linking their twice in one day, though there aren't any ads or anything
so I don't really gain anything from it.

>
>> By the way, there are F/OSS iTunes clones now that are *more*
>> functional than iTunes itself.
>
>
> Can they make a nice database for music files?  iTunes seems to be
> good for that -- it will search the HDD and construct a listing of all
> music using info from the ID tags.  What's a better way to do that?
>
I don't think they do. Personally, I use amaroK for managing my audio
library. It has some neat features like intelligent playlist building,
inline lyric view, etc. Its well worth checking out. It bills itself as
the "next generation" of media player software..and I see where they get
the notion.

> Mike
>
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