Re:There Is No CD Revival
by z3c0 on Friday April 29, 2022 @05:51AM
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Was that retroactively applied? Because my music from pre-2009 remained DRM'd, but maybe I just needed to re-download them. On top of that, it was all AAC, and I regularly had to convert the files to be usable anywhere but Apple's products. It became such a chore, that I gave up on the Apple music ecosystem entirely, and I don't really have any regrets about it.
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Re:There Is No CD Revival
by leveraction on Friday April 29, 2022 @07:32AM
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Same here. I had 2 or 3 ipods back in the day and loved it although they had a tendency to fail on me. Eventually, I decided to remove my paid-for downloads off of my ipod. That is when I discovered Apple's DRM and the fact that iTunes was a totally closed universe. I had to abandon all my tunes and I was very mad. That was maybe 2007ish? I have not owned another Apple product of any kind since. They lost me for life not that it seems to have hurt them any.
Re:There Is No CD Revival
by mschuster91 on Friday April 29, 2022 @12:31PM
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VLC has supported AAC from at least 2006 onwards [1]. Yeah conversion has always been a pain in the butt but back in the time you had to convert between everything all the time anyway (the nastiest example being wma-based devices like the Zune).
[1] https://wiki.videolan.org/index.php?title=Advanced_Audio_Cod...