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Aldarion wrote:

Glad to see I'm not the only one underwhelmed.

and PARIAH: Why release a service if it DOESN'T work? What other services exist that are released but do not work the first day? And how many of them get slammed for being an unfinished product?

Because it's not a new service, regardless of the name it's just an addition to the already existing and working just fine, ITMS.

i like the bad plus.

Aldarion wrote:

iTunes Plus doesn't seem so great "right out of the box".

Why...because not everything that you hoped and dreamed would be immediately available isn't listed?



How does that equate to it not "working?"  Would you have been more satisfied if they simply made NOTHING available until they were ready to make EVERYTHING available?

CDs as a hard copy are still more accessible, cost about the same as DRM free music off iTunes Plus, and are a higher quality recording. Addiionally you physically own the music. Can't go wrong with it.

SamGuy wrote:

1.  Is there a way to upgrade only some of my previously purchased songs to iTunes plus?  There are some songs that I've purchased in the past that weren't for me and I have no use to redownload them again.  I was half hoping for a moment apple would check just the m4ps in your library.. but they check your history.

If they can check your history, then how come they don't let you re-download your library?

Apple bites.

I am cornfused..........


Is iTunes 7.2= iTunes Plus?


Can I update to 7.2 with out the plus?


Should I update to 7.2?

I can't say how iTunes Plus is yet, but I'm guessing a lot of people are taking advantage of it as the store is too slow to use right now. I only checked one album - Supertramp's Breakfast in America - and it didn't show any iTunes Plus version but as others have said the full rollout may take some time. We are talking about (I'm making a random guess here) tens (hundreds??) of thousands of songs. Just getting the purchase orders approved for all the extra server space must be a daunting feat of bureaucratic legerdemain.

But iTunes U looks good - Elementary Greek!!! Finally!! Twice I tried to sign up for Greek in when I was in school, only to find out it wasn't offered that year. Apple has fixed that problem. Big shiney peppermint Kudos.

Eh, I'll still be buying my music on CDs.  I want a physical copy in case my drive gets hozed and so I can encode at whatever bit rate I want (typically 192 kbps).

well, its been two days now, and i still have yet to fully finish downloading three "upgraded" tracks from Badly Drawn Boy's Born In The U.K. album. i just shot off an email to Apple about it. we'll see what happens.

i am not a happy customer right now.

Gatchaman wrote:

Apple is going to learn a valuable lesson about having to rely on crappy third party "service" for their products.

This is why at&t was the only company to cooperate with Apple.

Because other companies would like to control customer service, vertical services, java integration, 3rd party apps through BREW, etc, etc.

I distinctly remember mentioning that the logistics for this sort of mixed DRM/DRM-Free service would be more difficult than just DRM or non-DRM and more or less someone telling me I didn't know what I was talking about. Sadly he was right about me being off in my assessment in one respect. I couldn't have imagined it would be the smurf it is currently.

SamGuy wrote:

I am not finding a way to upgrade only those that i Want to upgrade.  Apple is giving me the "All or none"

I can't believe nobody has replied to you.

I am having the same problem.  I do not want to upgrade ALL my music to iTunes-Plus.  Just some of them.

THERE SEEMS TO BE NO WAY TO DO THIS.  Lame.

BTW: I can't believe I have 740 downloads from the iTunes store since it opened.

justine wrote:

Aldarion wrote:

But my favorite group is Depeche Mode (Mute Records which is a part of EMI). No iTunes love for them. And I was waiting for iTunes plus before buying The Complete Depeche Mode.

They're your favorite group and you don't own the cds already?

I have the studio albums but the original cd's were lost about 3-4 moves ago (or with an ex). Getting all of the studio albums remastered plus the extras (some of which I have some that I don't) is just icing on the cake. 644 tracks for $170 is a great deal I just want 256 not 128. I actually dont care about the drm but I do care about the bitrate.

Last edited by Aldarion (2007-06-13 12:49 am)