i-tunes update

[arguchik]

fyi, the i-tunes people did something to fix the problem i was having with my music, and the lead belly CD i purchased now plays just fine, and i loaded it onto my i-pod a few days ago. i'm going to burn it to a CD--quick!--before i lose it again. (for those who recommended i try this as a DRM-circumvention maneuver: so...this would really work? they don't have some DRM thing that accompanies the music onto a burned CD?)

for rojonoir: i'll play this version of "bourgeois blues" for you sometime.

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[rojonoir.livejournal.com]

so...this would really work? they don't have some DRM thing that accompanies the music onto a burned CD?

Right. Audio CDs came before DRM. They really aren't that different from a digital version of vinyl - instead of a groove that wiggles based on the power of the audio signal, it just takes the power level thousands of times a second, converts to a binary number and writes it on the CD. Old school CD players have very little electronics - they just grab those numbers, convert directly to an audio signal and spit it out. iPods, on the other hand, have super powerful computers that probably do as much fancy math as the whole apollo project used just to convert the bits back to your favorite Britney Spears tune.

The only trouble with burning an audio CD and then re-encoding is that you lose a little bit of the original signal - kinda like when you copy old cassettes, only not as bad.

[rojonoir.livejournal.com]

Oh, and W00t!

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

your favorite Britney Spears tune.

HA!
ha

you're funny.

[rojonoir.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. It's hard to pick just one favorite.

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

LOL--i am delighted to be able to say--honestly--that i have only ever heard one song of hers in its entirety, and that was a youtube vid of her disastrous performance at the VMA's last fall. i've heard covers of "one more time," but not her version.