Physical Heavensward OST instead of itunes?

[Colorful]

I think that's what the hard copy version is for, which upon becoming available will be on Amazon.

I did not know Google had a music service. I know Amazon has Amazon Prime but have never used it for digital music purchases.

What about those of us who want to purchase it online without a physical copy? I'd just end up ripping the music from the CD either way, but they don't ship to Australia so that's a problem. Does iTunes use some form of DRM on their music?

[Laraul]

Does iTunes use some form of DRM on their music?

No...

I have an intense dislike for iTunes and its proprietary system, so I buy all of my MP3s from either Amazon or Google.

iTunes doesn't use a proprietary system. All files are encoded in AAC and can easily be re-encoded to whatever format you wish (MP3, WMA, OGG, etc).

[TheUltimate3]

No...



iTunes doesn't use a proprietary system. All files are encoded in AAC and can easily be re-encoded to whatever format you wish (MP3, WMA, OGG, etc).

I was under the impression you can't do that on iTunes. The whole point being so that you couldn't buy songs on iTunes and play it on a separate medium, you had to use an iDevice.

[Laraul]

I was under the impression you can't do that on iTunes. The whole point being so that you couldn't buy songs on iTunes and play it on a separate medium, you had to use an iDevice.

Prior to March 2009, Apple did use a DRM technology on music purchased thru the iTunes store, albeit they never wanted too. Steve Jobs himself noted his objection to using DRM back in early 2007, saying that Apple did not want to use DRM but was forced by the musical labels. Since March 2009, all music downloaded from iTunes, regardless when it was purchased, is DRM free.

[LunaHoshino]

iTunes doesn't use a proprietary system. All files are encoded in AAC and can easily be re-encoded to whatever format you wish (MP3, WMA, OGG, etc).

It's proprietary in the sense that A) you can't even purchase music without first downloading iTunes, and B) you have to re-encode it to put it onto a non-Apple MP3 player, neither of which are things I wish to do. With Amazon and Google, you click a button, and boom, you've got an MP3. No program download or re-encoding needed.

[Laraul]

It's proprietary in the sense that A) you can't even purchase music without first downloading iTunes, and B) you have to re-encode it to put it onto a non-Apple MP3 player, neither of which are things I wish to do. With Amazon and Google, you click a button, and boom, you've got an MP3. No program download or re-encoding needed.

If you purchases games thru Stream you have to download and install that too.. Would that make Steam proprietary?

iTunes distributes music encoded using the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) encoding standard. It's widely supported across a wide range a portable players and devices. Android and Windows Phones both support AAC. As the PS3, PSP, PSVita, Nintendo 3DS, Microsoft's Zune. Blackberry does too. It's a widely supported standard.

Seriously pull your head out from under the ground once in a while...

[TheUltimate3]

If you purchases games thru Stream you have to download and install that too.. Would that make Steam proprietary?

The fact that you must run these games through Steam, and Steam itself acts as a form DRM I believe yes, Steam is proprietary. They can, if they so choose to, remove a game from their library and make it so that you are unable to download it again should you for whatever reason, remove it from your library. I'm also pretty sure they can simply make it so you can't download it even if it was in your library, but thankfully that has never been an issue (for me).

[Lucke]

The fact that you must run these games through Steam, and Steam itself acts as a form DRM I believe yes, Steam is proprietary. They can, if they so choose to, remove a game from their library and make it so that you are unable to download it again should you for whatever reason, remove it from your library. I'm also pretty sure they can simply make it so you can't download it even if it was in your library, but thankfully that has never been an issue (for me).

To be fair, Steam has said that if it fails for whatever reason and needs to shutdown, it would release code that makes Steam games playable in offline mode/without steam should anything happen. Also I dunno about iTunes, but if they shutdown and make all your purchases useless, they would get a ton of flak and their business would prolly be ruined, so, they probably have some form of contingency plan allowing you to play the songs in any music player.

Again, the moon would need to collide with the earth sending it head-long into the sun for those 2 companies to fail.

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