geepondy
Flashlight Enthusiast
I am researching to buy a portable mp3 and other formats player but the music industry is making it so hard to download music legally with all the different formats and the damn DMR. Make that a double damn the way I am feeling now. Ipod/Itunes uses the ACC format. Many other music services use the WMA format. I've been told that both are superior to mp3 in terms of music quality vs. size/compression rates. The Ipods of course will not support WMA. Any other portable player I looked at will not support the AAC format. I have looked at and tried a couple of programs that convert WMA to other formats but none as has worked (including itunes) because of the you know what DMR. I can't find any that will convert AAC to other formats. The only way to get around it is to burn your WMA, AAC format to a audio cd and then covert back to the desired format. This will result in a loss of quality as you are going from a lossy format to a lossless format and then back to a lossy format. Not to mention the fact that if I download a single song and want to add it to my player I have to burn a cd for this single song?
I am willing to use Itunes to download the bulk of my new music because I like the interface and they seem to have a decent selection of music. But I refused to be locked into buying a Ipod. I actually am looking into buying a 1.5G Rio Nitrus as I think it is a sufficient size and I can get it now for $150 at Circuit City but it only supports mp3 and wma.
Am I missing the boat here? Are there much simpler methods to do what I want to do? How do you feel about the different formats and the DMR? I've downloaded a thousand or more songs from the old Napster and don't feel guilty about it but here I am willing to pay for the songs I want but it seems at least in my mind, the music industry is driving the people even more then before to investigate pirated music.
I am willing to use Itunes to download the bulk of my new music because I like the interface and they seem to have a decent selection of music. But I refused to be locked into buying a Ipod. I actually am looking into buying a 1.5G Rio Nitrus as I think it is a sufficient size and I can get it now for $150 at Circuit City but it only supports mp3 and wma.
Am I missing the boat here? Are there much simpler methods to do what I want to do? How do you feel about the different formats and the DMR? I've downloaded a thousand or more songs from the old Napster and don't feel guilty about it but here I am willing to pay for the songs I want but it seems at least in my mind, the music industry is driving the people even more then before to investigate pirated music.