iTunes Vouchers

cocoluvsmummy

With 5 people in the house who all like to download from itunes this sounded like a great deal. Held my breath and bought last night, the code was with me withing 30 seconds and i had my first tune downloaded 5 minutes later.
Brillant find.

veruccasalt

These had sold out yesterday, but I have just checked and he has another 70 listed.

I want to get another, but would I need to spend my existing balance first? How would it know I had bought from that voucher in two months,

MercilessKiller

The money gets added on to your account so it makes no diff

ginjim

are itunes copy protected?
i read before that they are going to stop this? is this a good buy for non copy protected fiiles?

MercilessKiller

Itunes music files are loaded with DRM. They are NOT standard mp3 files, and you cant listen to them on other media players.

You can burn them to audio cd thoguh through itunes! Then rip them but still DRM protected

ginjim

i read in computeractive they are getting rid of drm files. not too sure when this is supposed to start ( havent got an account with itunes or an ipod) but you have to pay for the privilege?
so is it possible to burn them on to cds and play them on any player?
just read it's supposed to start from May

ginjim

heres the article



EMI has confirmed rumours that it is to drop digital rights management from some online music downloads.

The company is to sell DRM-free tracks via Apple's iTunes store, which will also come with better sound quality, albeit at a cost of increased file size.

The new tracks will cost 99p, compared to the current 79p, and iTunes customers will be able to upgrade their existing music for 20p per track.

"Our goal is to give consumers the best possible digital music experience," said Eric Nicoli, chief executive at EMI Group.

"By providing DRM-free downloads, we aim to address the lack of interoperability which is frustrating for many music fans.

"We believe that offering consumers the opportunity to buy higher quality tracks and listen to them on the device or platform of their choice will boost sales of digital music."

EMI is keeping DRM for music rental systems such as Napster, and said that Apple's iTunes will be the only store selling the tracks at launch.

Carl Gressum, senior analyst at Ovum, said: " What is key is that Apple is making a statement to the market is that it is not basing its business on DRM.

"Most consumers are happy with something that is good enough within the user experience, so the audio size increase is interesting.

"It is good news for Apple, since the more space the tracks take up, the faster the media player's space will run out so people will have to upgrade, and that's where Apple makes its money."

Apple is building in functionality so that users can upgrade their entire libraries to the larger, DRM-free tracks with a single mouse click. All EMI videos will have DRM stripped out at no extra charge.

"We are going to give iTunes customers a choice: the current versions of our songs for the same 99c price, or new DRM-free versions of the same songs with even higher audio quality and the security of interoperability for just 30c more," said Apple chief executive Steve Jobs.

"We think our customers are going to love this, and we expect to offer more than half of the songs on iTunes in DRM-free versions by the end of this year."

MercilessKiller

Currently if you download tracks and burn them using itunes to an audio cd they can be played in any cd player afaik.

However, you can't burn them using other programs, and you cant convert them to mp3, and you cant rip them without drm (unless wanting to break the law and do some hacking)

Either way, the tracks without DRM aren't common yet at all. If you see the track you like for 99p then sure, but for the time being most tracks are still standard 79p DRM files afaik!

Maybe someone else can add to this

ginjim

thanks for your input on this
if someone could enlighten me i'd love to get this bargain
i dont have an ipod and could only use this deal if i could burn onto cds

MercilessKiller

ginjim

I was in your position but decided not to as I couldn't burn to MP3 CD which my car plays.

However I am 100% sure that using Itunes software you can burn to "Audio CD" to play in any standard player like normal. You can only fit about 10 to 20 sxongs on each cd though, and mp3 cd fits about 200 Thats why i wont do it.