“A German company is offering what it claims is a legal method of making iTunes Music Store music playable on devices other than the iPod. RapidSolution Software claims its Windows only software, Tunebite, ‘legally provides the user with new music files without restrictions,'” Macworld UK reports.
“The Tunebite software re-records tracks purchased from the iTunes Music Store. According to the company this does not damage the quality of the track. ‘Depending on the PC’s soundcard, Tunebite can re-record it at up to 256 kbit/s, thus rendering any potential quality loss virtually inaudible for the consumer,’ it claims,” Macworld UK reports.
Full article here.
Lame, just lame.
oh, I don’t know if this is so bad… people are still going to be buying the iPod because it is an iPod.
And more sales of songs via iTunes for Apple.
Yea, it’s called a CD burner.
If you are not already burning CD’s for your car CD stereo you should be doing it as a back-up archive.
We can’t all drive BMW’s.
The German company isn’t listed on the MacWorld UK article. Interesting.
A little googling got this URL:
http://www.rapidsolution.de/
There’s an english version, too. Couldn’t find a mention about the “TuneBite” software that’s supposed to do what your CD burner will do anyway.
This solution will add another generation loss to the music tracks converted. Nothing special in what it does.
“Apple has not yet reacted to this announcement. When Real announced that its Harmony software would let music acquired from Real’s online music store play on iPods Apple reacted angrily, claiming that the company had the ethics of a hacker.”
I like these kinds of suggestive associations of facts. It’s only noticable if you think the issue with Real is entirely different from any possible issue with this Tunebite gizmo.
Anyway yah, same as burning a CD. Sounds more similar to something like Audio Hijack Pro on a Mac. Somewhat related to MP3 radio stream recorders. Nothing at all like the issue with Real.
Nonetheless, ever get the feeling that digital music is inevitably going to fail. The music industry is like a totalitarian regime that at it’s worst, manages merely to inconvenience and annoy it’s citizens.
nix
I dont dig music will ever fail… IMO, I think the RIAA will eventually fail and become useless.. due to dig music !!…
Build a better mouse trap… and someone will find a way to circumvent it !
I remember when Apple offered drivers to put songs from iTunes onto almost every player out there. That was a long long time ago…