[BC] Re: downloading music

[David Reaves]

Jeff, here's what I found on Apple's web site:

"CUPERTINO, California?April 2, 2007?Apple? today announced that EMI
Music?s entire digital catalog of music will be available for
purchase DRM-free (without digital rights management) from the
iTunes? Store (www.itunes.com) worldwide in May. DRM-free tracks from
EMI will be offered at higher quality 256 kbps AAC encoding,
resulting in audio quality indistinguishable from the original
recording, for just $1.29 per song. In addition, iTunes customers
will be able to easily upgrade their entire library of all previously
purchased EMI content to the higher quality DRM-free versions for
just 30 cents a song. iTunes will continue to offer its entire
catalog, currently over five million songs, in the same versions as
today?128 kbps AAC encoding with DRM?at the same price of 99 cents
per song, alongside DRM-free higher quality versions when available."

Here's the link to the whole press release:
<http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/04/02itunes.html>


On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 13:25:41 EDT, Xmitters at aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 4/7/07 12:13:42 PM Central Daylight Time,
>broadcast-request at radiolists.net writes:
>
><< Apple's just signed an agreement with EMI to sell their music on
>the  iTunes
>  Music Store without DRM; files rumored to be AAC at 256kbps.  AAC
>at this data
>  rate would be nearly indistiguishable from a WAV  file (even iTMS'
>current 128
>kbps AAC sounds pretty good). They'll  cost $1.29 per song, $9.99
>per album and
>, with no data protection  key, not a bad deal. Due to reduced file
>size, downl
>oading such a  file is about five times faster than WAV files.
>That's just A
>pple and EMI. If you're patient, the other labels and  online
>services will cer
>tainly follow in the near future. Maybe  someone will even offer
>loss-less file
>
>Dave:
>
>Are these agreements going to cover all music that is "still in
>print" or is
>it just for the new crap, I mean stuff?
>
>
>Jeff Glass
>Northern Illinois University