So I got bored this weekend and tried out Apple's iTunes music service. It absolutely rocks, very impressive. There's a ton of music I was looking for, but haven't purchased it because I don't want to buy the whole CD. 99 cents a track is a decent deal, and instead of buying 5 different CD's for like $17 each (hard to find stuff), I got by with spending $4.95. It's 128kbps AAC, but it does sound quite decent. It would be nice if it was a higher bitrate, but as it is, I can't really hear any problems with it. 30 second previews of songs at full quality also. This is the one thing that annoys me about buying music at most stores, there's no way to preview it first. Also, if you have iTunes, and you go to http://spymac.com/music , you can search people's shared playlists and stream their music to your machine over the net. You can't copy it, just listen to it. I'm sure someone will figure out a way to copy it though. Although, since you can get most stuff for 99 cents a track, it's probably not worth the hassle. If you have iTunes, you need to try this out. It's funny that record companies complain that there's no future in online music distribution, however, it's hard to see how there's not after checking out the iTunes thing. Jay _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list