jwb said:
Now the final project required music I did not have, so I had my daughter
use her itunes, and I paid for her to download a few songs I needed.
I have them, but now I am finding that I can not use the #@!x
proprioritory
format that Apple sells it to you in.
Welcome to DRM.
And if you think iTunes is bad, just take a look at what most of the others
offer. There are more restrictions and limitations that you could image.
(And don't forget the new Napster's "rental" of music, which some colleges
have bought into.) And Microsoft's own new DRM is pushing for even more
control and restrictions.
Most people who buy from those places don't realize just how bad things are.
They just assume. When "Real.com" did their sale a few weeks back, a lot of
people were surprised that DRM didn't work the way they expected. (Some
were also surprised by how bad the music sounded. Tests have proven that
128k WMA is much worse than 128k MP3. That's why they do 192k, just to try
and get the mp3 quality, never mind that of AAC or Vorbis. Of course, WMA
Pro is better, but it's not widely supported.)
Realistically, the iTunes/iPod crowd has it best, but even they aren't being
treated fairly. It works just well enough that things are working okay for
now, but they'll have problems in a few years down the road, after upgrading
to new computers or wanting to switch to a player other than ipod, etc.)
(And don't forget, the FCC has ordered there be copy controls on Digital TV.
So you can forget about recording quality digital HDTV. You'll have to stay
with the lower quality like today's analog vcr.)
Am I correct in that assumption? and is there a way to convert their MP4
itunes format so that I can use it in Moviemaker or Photostory?, or Studio
8
Not legally. [cough]
But there are a few things that can capture the output of playing it. I
don't happen to have links for them, since I don't buy music DRM'ed music.
You could also go 'low-tech' and just use a jumper / patch cable and record
the playing output.
If you re-encode it into something other than WAV, then you'll loose some
quality of the music. So it's not suitable for listening to real music, but
it's okay if you are just doing background music, sound effects, etc.
Of course, you still have the legalities of using the stuff. For a personal
project or a private presentation, I don't think anybody would really care.
by Pinnacle for that matter (as that is the software that I am using at
the
end to combine all the movies into one DVD?
If not the itunes solution, could you suggest another reliable source for
music that will work with WMM or PS?
That would depend on what kind of music you need.
If you are needing background or some classical or some such, you could
probably find lots of legal music. (How about archive.org? They have a lot
of stuff, but I don't know if it's useful.) There really are a lot of
places to get a lot of different types of music, legally.
You wont find any current popular stuff, but if you are needing some other
kind, you might find it.
Also, there is one other option...
Can you find it on the radio?
In the U.S., the supreme court ruled that it was 100% fair use to record the
radio onto a casette recorder. (At the time that was all there was. And
the RIAA etc. were saying that casette recorders built into the radio would
destroy the industry. You may remember the "Bow wow wow" did a song "C30
C60 C90 Go" in protest.)
That was later amended by Congress with the "Home Recording Act" to include
digital recording. (Even Mr. Rogers, of "Mr. Rogers Neighborhood" pushed
congress for it.)
So, if it's for personal / private use, you could do it that way legally.
(And what's funny is that the quality you get from a good FM radio is about
as good as what most of the warez 128k mp3's are on the p2p networks!)
