What's wrong with the iPod?

[unixronin]

What's wrong with the iPod?

Here's one opinion, and he makes a lot of good points.  Frankly, I'm with him -- yeah, so Apple even gives away free music on iTunes.com .... so what?  If I've got to install iTunes to be able to get it and can then only play it through iTunes, I don't want it.  I'd rather buy the CD and make my own MP3 that I can play however, wherever and whenever I want, than get the song for free and accept the restrictions that come with it.

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I didn't think he was saying that you can't use iTunes without an iPod, or that you can't use an iPod without buying your music through the iTunes store.

AAC may be better at 128K than MP3 at 192K ... but I don't use flat-bitrate MP3s anyway. I record at 64-320K VBR, and I get bigger files for it, but they sound (on computer speakers, at least, and not cheap ones at that) indistinguishable to my ear from the original CD.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Oh, I meant to add "...while still taking ten times less space than the raw CDDA."