Glenn McClements said:
quoted 3 lines They do mention in the FAQ that they are thinking about supporting Ogg,> They do mention in the FAQ that they are thinking about supporting Ogg,
> AAC and lossless formats as well, but by the sounds of it you will have
> to pay for it again even if you have downloaded the MP3 previously.
it's also encoded at 256+ VBR with quality set to high. That's hardly
"thin sounding, crappy."
quoted 5 lines I had assumed that once you pay for a song they would keep a record of>
> I had assumed that once you pay for a song they would keep a record of
> it and let you download it as many times you want in whatever format you
> want, but you have to pay for each download you do. Can anyone tell me
> if this how iTunes works as well?
You pay for each download because they don't want to incur bandwidth costs
for multiple people downloading from the same account. It's just
web-based, and you don't need to install and use some proprietary program,
so if I were to buy 5 albums and could download them over and over again,
I could just pass my username and password around until everyone
downloaded it. Makes sense why they would say "hey, you can make as many
copies as you want, so back up the stuff you download!"
Not sure if iTunes has the same protection or not.
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