RTP-area local music and culture

[Chris Rossi <nospam AT spacelabstudio.com>]

ron thigpen wrote:
> Bo Williams wrote:
>
> > It's even less complicated to just run JHymn on your itunes library
> > and enjoy your new mp3's:
> >
> > http://hymn-project.org/
>
>
> > On 12/16/05, Kevin Darbro <kdarbro AT nc.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
> > > It's as complicated as burning a music CD of the protected songs in iTunes,
> > > ejecting that CD when it's done, inserting it again and ripping the songs to
> > > MP3. At that point, the copy protection is bye bye and you can do what you
> > > want with the MP3s.
>
>
> Re-ripping to MP3 from a burned CD introduces a generational loss, as 
> you are re-encoding from one lossy format to another.  Whether this 
> matters to you or not is between you and your ears.
It also wastes a perfectly good CD.  As a consumer, I avoid spending 
money with companies that treat me like a criminal.  ITunes is a bad 
deal on several different fronts.

rossi