After takin' a swig o' grog, damon belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> | Wal-Mart has started offering Universal music tracks in the unprotected MP3
>> | format, as promised. These play anywhere, but the site only works with
>> | Windows...
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> Well, I pointed my Linux box at http://musicdownloads.walmart.com and
> Firefox got me in directly. I then ordered a non-DRM mp3. Walmart sent
> me a file, which, when I opened it with wine, downloaded the mp3. No
> fuss, no trouble at all.
>
> The music store is pretty clunky, and not all songs are in mp3, and the
> mp3 songs cost $00.06 more than WMA files, but you CAN buy clean mp3s
> from Wal-Mart.
Nice, for those who want that stuff. As for me...
... To hell with the music industry.
I recently bought a car with a radio with a CD player and MP3 support,
and I learned something which, to me, epitomizes the stupidity of the
"music" "industry".
I ripped some of my CDs to MP3 and burned them to a CD (using "jack",
which also looks up the track info and makes it part of the
filename and the file).
I also brought a couple of normal CDs into the car to play.
The normal CDs show "No title".
My ripped files show author, album, and title.
CDs are a digital medium, yet you cannot get simple track information
from them.
Dumb. Totally dumb.
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Tux rox!
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