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Buy from iTunes, die with iTunes

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Rick
on October 28, 2008
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A couple weeks ago I read an article from PC World that suggested MediaMonkey as an alternative to iTunes. I like to play with shiny new programs so I decided to give it a shot.

After installation, I realized that most of the music I have bought and downloaded from iTunes didn’t even show up in MediaMonkey. The copyright protection tied into my music files wouldn’t let me change players, even on the same computer. Even though I bought and own the music, I wasn’t allowed to play them wherever I wished.

That really sucks.

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MiPod

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Rick
on December 10, 2007
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iPod ClassicOver six years after the first iPod was released in October of 2001, I finally got my hands on one yesterday.

As an early birthday/Christmas present to myself, I bought the 80 GB black iPod Classic at Target yesterday. They offered a free $25 dollar gift card with purchase of the $250 device, which was one of the better deals I could find.

With the thousands of songs I’ve collected over the years, I thought I’d probably need the 160 GB version but after checking the file size of the music folder on my computer, I saw that it read only just over 14 GB. It’s amazing how many MP3 files 1 GB of storage can hold.

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