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Originally posted by saralk
Microsoft has followed suit with DRM free music.
I think most of the complaints are actually moot points...
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Originally posted by rav0
Another effect of it being proprietory is that it will only connect with your portable media player if you use an IPod. By design, Apple prefer's it to be the only software that will connect with IPods, but others have made software that connects with IPods as well.
That isn't quite true, you can drag and drop files like you can in Windows Explorer, so although its not as swish as you might like it to be, you can drag music files onto a standard flash based dime a dozen mp3 player.
You could drag and drop files onto a UMS without ITunes anyway. ITunes won't connect to the player, you have to move the files yourself.
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Originally posted by alexp2_ad
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Originally posted by rav0
I'm Mac style, ITunes only lets you have one music library, other software lets you keep multiple libraries (keep one for your own music, one for your parents music etc). Each library has it's own tracks, ratings, play counters. Songs can be in multiple libraries at once.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304447
(Hold down shift (windows) / option (mac) when starting iTunes to change library)
Now that I know that, ITunes only lets you use one library simultaneously, and switching libraries is difficult.
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