iTunes Anniversery

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Yep its been a year, since iTunes has been availible for PC's and today Apple released a whole lot of goodies.
For starters they are offering a free single every tuesday... this weeks single Foo Fighters Hero
Then they announced a partnership with Disney and thousands of Disney soundtracks and songs are on the site.
Followed by a release of 45 rare Motown Singles
Free Videos
Movie Trailors
A download your favorite playlist section called Imix
A Jewel Case Insert Printing programs so you can list you mixes on Cd
An Upgrade to the lossless CD encoder
and a WMA converter allowing all non DRM protected WMA material to play in Itunes (a huge plus for Ipod fans)
not to mention Radio Charts  and a wish list

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

also the number of computers you can athorize Itunes with has gone up from 3 to 5
The number of times you can burn a single playlist has gone down from 10- to 7

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

I wonder if they're going to be like Blizzard and with each patch change a few numbers around.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

what is that supposed to mean?

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

EG: Blizzard patch: - Siphon Mana maximum range reduced to 800 from 850.
- Flying Machine hit points increased to 200 from 175.

Apple "patch:" - the number of computers you can athorize Itunes with has gone up from 3 to 5
- The number of times you can burn a single playlist has gone down from 10- to 7

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

ahhh, well its kind of different, but ok.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

So Jeffe, EUOL, how'd the iPod updating go?

[Master Xaio]

Just on the subject of iPods; I saw the other day that after something like 1800 hours of use, the battery burns out.  At first apple was cheap, and was suggesting that the customers buy another iPod.  However, they have since become a little less cheap, instead offering a replacement battery for the all-time low price of...... $99.00

But yay for iTunes!

[EUOL]

Went without a hitch.

And, Outkast, if you buy Apple's extended warranty for fifty bucks, they'll replace the battery for free when it goes out.

[Master Xaio]

Hm, ok, I hadn't heard about that.  Apple is a little less cheap than I thought.

[EUOL]

Heh.  Well, both of those things are--the $99 thing and the new extended warranty--methods of combating the bad PR they got over the  battery issue.  They acted quickly, you have to give them that.  However, I don't think it makes them less cheap.  They only did it because they had to.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Well then EUOL, you should read of Gaiman's account on updating his 40 GB iPod (which makes me jealous, he has a 40 GB iPod. I bet that makes you jealous too EUOL =P).

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

I had some trouble with my mini, but my wifes Ipod went fine,... the mini had to have filesharing turned off for the update, after which I turned fs back on and it went fine... I think its a problem of not having a dock for the mini, but who knows.... apple knows about it and they are fixin the code...
Remember the mini is only on v1.1 right now.

I like the 1 year warranty. And if you've seen the Ipod or the mini you know that its pretty hard to get open, for battery issues they effectivly just give you a brand new Ipod anyway ...so 99 bucks isnt horrific...

I like the idea of lossless encoding... no tinny sounding strings in my classical music, and fuller voices,... all thats going to come at the expense of memory of course but hey I'll just put 500 songs on my mini instead of 1000.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I dunno, whatever the reason: new technology, difficulty opening (which is STILL the manufacturer's fault, and possibly worse since it's planned), or whatever, $99 is still costly. Heck, $50 is expensive for a battery failure. It's still a downside, imo. One that can eventually be corrected, but hasnt' yet.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Kind of, but I dont agree when you consider the one year warrenty that will repair or replace said item for free that I got for purchasing the item.