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Mistshadow:
My husband wants iTunes on the Windows box; and 99 cents a song does sound like a pretty good deal, I must say. However, it's been the work of my life for the past few months to keep our Windows as far away from an internet connection as possible.

So is iTunes on Windows good?

Does it always try to connect to the intenet when it's used, like all of the other media players on WIndows? If so, why? (The other media players do it so they can get the chance to spam you, although they deny that.)

Why can't they port it to Linux? Jeeze, thanks for the support, Apple. And many Mac-users bitch about market-share and how they're not supported (no, I don't mean to point fingers here or anything, so don't go gettin' all warmed up for a flame war just yet, boys).

Stilly:
on the mac version theres an option to let it get online, so its probably on the windows one

but if you want an even better deal try kazaa  ;)

solarflare:

quote:Originally posted by The Stiller:
on the mac version theres an option to let it get online, so its probably on the windows one

but if you want an even better deal try kazaa   ;)  
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Actually - If you go into preferences in itunes you can turn this option off and IT ISNT ON BY DEFAULT.

USE ITUNES MUSIC STORE IF YOU WANT PERFECT DIGITAL ENCODED MUSIC - USE KAZAA IF YOU WANT CRAP QUALITY ENCODED SONGS THAT WILL DESTROY ANY INTEREST YOU HAVE IN MUSIC.

THE CHOICE IS YOURS... IF YOU LOVE MUSIC USE THE ITUNES MUSCI STORE!!

Xeen:

quote:Originally posted by solarflare:
USE ITUNES MUSIC STORE IF YOU WANT PERFECT DIGITAL ENCODED MUSIC - USE KAZAA IF YOU WANT CRAP QUALITY ENCODED SONGS THAT WILL DESTROY ANY INTEREST YOU HAVE IN MUSIC.
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Or be like me. I use kazaa but don't download anything less than 192 kbps. THen I fix up and edit the songs the way I want them to be, apply appropriate noise reduction, and re-encode them to my preferred way (tossing out all DRM if any too).

I think I'm gonna give itunes a try soon but I'm gonna probably use that crack to get it for free  :D  

I support the idea of pay-per-download music stores 100% but refuse to use them as long as their downloads have DRM. I refuse to pay for anything that limits how many times I can burn the song, or on how many machines I can play it, etc..

M51DPS:
The only time I've seen it connect to the internet (on my Mac anyway) is when it connects to the iTunes Music Store or I listen to the radio. When it connects, you see a small progress bar as it downloads whatever information it needs for viewing whatever area you're at. And of course, the radio is streaming.

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