WereKitten said:
It's not accidental, of course... interfacing with iTunes is a feature of pieces of hardware such as the Palm Pre. As to someone forcing your only legal downloads to come from iTunes, let me say: "uh?" Build your MP3/AAC library any way you want and a plethora of software tools will allow you to organize it in playlists and sync with your iPod. Unless you buy something like a DRM-locked WMA file that your iPod won't play, but then you're the culprit. When you accept to pay money for a DRM-encumbered content, you're accepting that you will be restricted in the way you manage and playback that content. But it's not as if there's no choice: I don't think there's music out there that is exclusive to a given DRM format. iTunes does sell DRM-free versions of all its content for what I know, and you can manage and play that music however and wherever you want. |
You use excuses and work arounds... and no it's not all DRM free if it was I could plug my GF iPod into my 360 and play back her music... I can't. I can play back the music she burned from her own stash, but downloaded music is a no go. Apple has a choke hold on the market that's almost painful to watch and the whole reason is that got their foot in to the door first and now if you have tons of iTunes purchases you're probably going to be stuck and even if all music was non-DRM most people still don't understand and most devices don't play back AAC(is that correct... been out of the loop for a little while). I think someone from Gizmondo said it best on a tech interview I watched about ZuneHD... "What most people will ask when they see it is 'can I use iTunes with this?' the answer is no and so they'll never get it"
