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http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/16/ ... usic17.php

What do you guys think of this? Firstly, I have never heard of "bitpop" but it sounds like something I'll look into just for fun. Though I think that apple is that much closer to getting what it deserves from the european community for making songs only playable on their IPod products. Personally, I am a strong advocate for open source and open standards and have not bothered to buy an IPod for exactly that reason. I don't want to have to pipe every MP3 I want to put on the pod through some third party software just to make it playable, I'll just use the slightly more expensive xen jukebox, believe me, the slight increase in price is worth it when you calculate how many man hours are required to convert all your MP3s for use with an IPod.

Until a few more prominant artists start pulling out apple wont start noticing the differant financially

Ebony5 wrote:Until a few more prominant artists start pulling out apple wont start noticing the differant financially

Yeah, seriously, the problem is that most artists don't give a rip. Speaking from personal experience and all the people I know, I have found that german computer users are far more supportive of open source and open business models than any other nationality I have dealt with. This may not be totally true over all, but I'm sure at least someone else will agree with me. On top of that, these bitpop artists were small and not making alot of money anyway, so they didn't care about the few dollars they would lose by quitting with apple because hardly anyone downloaded their songs to begin with.

I am glad that Europe is doing this movement against Apple. I am against the Ipod just for the fact that I have to reformat my whole library just to put onto an Mp3 player. I wish the same thing would happen in the US, but I doubt it would.

ohplzno wrote:I am glad that Europe is doing this movement against Apple. I am against the Ipod just for the fact that I have to reformat my whole library just to put onto an Mp3 player. I wish the same thing would happen in the US, but I doubt it would.

You know, there is third party software that should be able to do that kind of thing in batch so you don't have to do it all individually, just google for it.