RTP-area local music and culture

[Bryk <chscene AT bryk.com>]

On Feb 29, 2008, at 12:00 PM, chapelhillguitarist AT hotmail.com wrote:
> Why do people bother with iTunes at all?  (Different subject I know
> but related).  My ears cringe everytime I listen to a friend's music
> dowloaded from iTunes.
>
> Until iTunes offers uncompressed, full resolution 44k or 48k WAV or
> equivalent, discerning adult music lovers won't touch it.


To reiterate what Jim said, what you put on the iPod is your choice.  
no one is FORCING you to buy from the iTunes Music Store (which is now  
just the "iTunes Store" as they no-doubt migrate away from the music  
that made them to focus on Movie Rentals and TV Show sales...) just as  
no one is FORCING you to buy Apple's hardware.

I _really_ bit the bullet/drank the koolaid/fought the seether and  
chose to encode everything with Apple Lossless, which occupies half  
the space while sounding every bit as good/bad as Red Book CDs (to me  
at least) when played back on my iPod Classic or the 3 Macs of varying  
vintage strewn around the house.  it seems stupid to me to encode MP3  
or any other lossy format, hard drive size being applicable to moore's  
law and all... when we have 100TB desktop drives and 100GB flash  
drives in another year or two. the only reason I don't just encode  
from CD straight-to-AIFF is because AIFF files don't retain all those  
meta tags (and why the hell not?)

while i certainly miss carrying hundreds of vinyl records with me  
while i walk the dog, I'm one of these freaks that actually likes  
having 80 gigs of CD-quality music, movies and tv shows that can be  
directly injected into my car stereo or TV set (at least until the  
Swedish government eventually caves in and shuts down the piratbyrån)

i've bought about ten albums off of ITMS, and all of those were by  
either by friends who didn't want to/couldn't afford to press CDs, or  
cult records that were so ridiculously out of print I didn't care  
about possessing a 5-inch aluminum disc of them.

all I can say is, despite all their socio-cultural marketing and  
greenwashing, Apple is still a big evil manufacturing corporation like  
any other. but in my experience, their products tend to work better  
for my purposes than anything else. it's the people like ch-guitarist  
who hate Apple... they REALLY hate Apple. it's almost irrational.

oh yeah, back to the topic... anyone know anyone who has some Ruckus  
stats?

I'm probably breaking my TOS on this, but one Ruckus stream of Bull  
City's "Ford Ranger All-American" netted Urban Myth exactly...  
$0.00900 (our digital distributor takes their cut from that.) which  
basically means I'll be buying dinner for Mr. Brantley next time we go  
out :-"

in the old days, that might have been a 99¢ single sale.  Modern life  
is rubbish.

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