MS screws MSN music owners.....MS being MS!!

[Auron]

west-phoenix-az said:

Auron said:

west-phoenix-az said:
Can't you just burn all your tracks onto a CD, then extract them as mp3's?

Thats what I do with songs purchased from iTunes, I just make a music CD for the car/truck, use Roxio to extract the songs into MP3 format, then delete the iTunes format. It leaves me with a legal hard copy and file copy that I paid for that I should be able to use on any MP3 player, PC or any other mp3 playing device of my choice. Everybody wins

When i buy something i don't want to go through a 10 step process to use it....

Seriously? 10-steps?

Step 1: Download the song (can listen to on your PC or ipod)

Step 1a. Go to store

Step 1b. Buy CD's 

Step 2: Burn an audio CD (now you have added the ability to play on any CD player)

Step 3: Extract the track to MP3 format (can play on anything and share with anyone)

If you buy from iTunes you can only put that track on your ipod or make a CD for playing in any CD player. Now if you want a MP3 that you can play in any MP3 device all you have to do is extract the tracks from your CD, which I pretty much always make one for my car, truck or for someone elses car, truck, home etc. I like to have actual backups as harddrives do crash and sometimes you can't get it back. So to me its no extra steps, I get everything I want, the way I want, and it takes about 1-minute a song.

I dunno about you but i haven't used a cd in years, with portable HDDs and Flash drives i have no use for em.  5 steps or 10 steps or even 2 extra steps are bullshit.  Digital Downloads are supoosed to be easier than buying physical medium no more complicated.