RTP-area local music and culture

[ron thigpen <ron AT fuzzsonic.com>]

Chris Rossi wrote:

> 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.

well, you can play the CD, but you're right it's a stupid, unnecessary 
step.  like printing a photo so you can scan it back it.  dumb.  wait a 
minute, can you use CD-RWs?  still dumb, but not as hard on the landfill.

whatever.  i'm not interested in buying lossy, DRM'd music anyway.

also, from my perspective, iTunes is horrible bloatware.  i've got a 
raft of smallish audio programs each of which does pretty much exactly 
what i want.  the sum of them gives me much more than iTunes would.  and 
only one of them cost money.

EAC, Foobar2000, Tag&Rename, FLAC tools, LAME, SlimServer, iPodder, etc.

--rt