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F.O.A.D.

On 6/27/13 8:59 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 18:35:26 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 6/27/13 6:22 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:19:54 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

Perhaps you are comparing your MP3 player to an Apple hardware device,
such as an iPhone or iPad. In that case, you'd be wrong.

I assume he is comparing it to an I-pod, that is appropriate.
The I tunes software is free but the songs are not.

I have an iPod. I can play music and videos on it. It has 55 GBs of
content on it, and probably less than 100 tunes are tunes I bought and
paid for via iTunes. The rest are CDs I own I uploaded to iTunes and
MP3s from various sources, mostly free or near free. I manage it all
easily via iTunes.

Why should you need to upload a CD to I tunes just to get it back on
your I pod?
I have several ripper programs that will convert a CD directly to MP3.
It sounds like a cheap way for Apple to get music they can sell.

I don't have to do that. I can use third party software to do that. But
I manage my music through iTunes and the music I lift off my CDs goes to
my server, not to Apple.