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17 Jun 2004 Download your music... for a fee
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You hear the news? iTunes now avaliable for people in the UK. Now you can buy and download individual tracks for about £0.79 (which is about £0.20 more than everywhere else. Curses! *shakes fist*) So I thought I'd give it a try. Partly because I wanted to see what it was like. Mostly because there was one particuar track I couldn't find online (Beastie Boys - CH-Check it Out). Well I could find it, but it was either the chorus of the song that looped for about 5 minutes, or silence for 10 minutes. And I wasn't gonna pay £5 to buy the single at the shops.
So I downloaded the iTune application, filled in my bank details, downloaded "Ch-Check it Out", and played it in the application. Finally a good copy of the song.
However there was a catch. The file of the track I downloaded was not mp3 like I was expecting, but m4p! That's MPEG-Layer4 Protected for those not in the know, like myself. I knew it was too good to be true (Curses! *shake fist*). I guess it's not a huge hassle, after all iTune can play all other music files like any other music playing software. But dammit, I wanted mp3! It's what I payed £0.79 for.
Still iTune is not a bad little application, especially if your really against the idea of using a P2P program to illegally download your music. And if you have an iPod to put your music in, you're laughing. However, whilst the catalogue of music is quite vast, it's mostly on mainstream music or bands that most people have heard of.
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