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This is for both audio and video from the store, its a happy day for sure...
 
Posted Tue 06 Jan 09 @ 1:58 pm
Really great, but to they also their kps up to a higher level?

Thx for the information! :-)

Haui
 
 
Thank's, now is it for both groups(itunes/iTunes+) a great day!

Haui
 
could be bye bye venue unless they change there format...
 
Now all they have to do is lower their prices so it's less than buying the CD. It's good they're free of DRM though.
 
I think this is possibly THE best news I have had all year !!!!!!

What a way to start 2009!

:D:D:D
 
Andrew87 wrote :
Now all they have to do is lower their prices so it's less than buying the CD. It's good they're free of DRM though.


I've always found chart albums much much cheap on itunes that in store!
 
Haui70 wrote :
Thank's, now is it for both groups(itunes/iTunes+) a great day!

Haui


It effectively means ALL tracks are iTunes+ as that's exactly what it means (256kbps, DRM Free) :)
 
DJAuz wrote :
Andrew87 wrote :
Now all they have to do is lower their prices so it's less than buying the CD. It's good they're free of DRM though.


I've always found chart albums much much cheap on itunes that in store!


Hmm just logged into the iTunes store and you're right. Each iTunes+ chart album is £1 cheaper than buying it from HMV, although it's easy enough to find discount vouchers online or by using a student discount instore the price works out only 11p cheaper. CD-Wow is typically the same price. I still don't find services like iTunes cheap enough considering the old argument of cd prices are what they are because of costs to cover distribution and packaging - that's not the only reason for what was extremely inflated prices but it definitely will cost more than online distribution. Not to mention that a lot of the popular online retailers ship their competitively priced retail cds for free.

It would cost a normal person $0.02 in transfer costs for the bandwidth required to send an 80minute 256kbps album using Amazon S3. Apple could probably go even cheaper than that. For the same price as a retail cd I would want the ability to download the album unlimited times to whatever format I want, e.g. Flac or vbr -0 mp3. On top of that, some sort of loyalty system would be nice. Until then I'll continue to use the retail outlets.
 
not so fast seems there is a problem with the new video files at least in the mac version of vdj. Vj's to get too excited yet.
 
Andrew87 wrote :
Until then I'll continue to use the retail outlets.


I'm with you on this Andrew,

play.com, Amazon.co.uk, even Asda.co.uk from these places you can buy a CD cheaper than itunes. Plus you have to physical copy of it and you can do what you like with it, rip it a hundreds of times if you wish, convert it into any format if you like.

But it's a good move by Apple anyway.
 
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Beginning today, all four major music labels — Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group and EMI, along with thousands of independent labels, are now offering their music in iTunes Plus, Apple's DRM-free format with higher-quality 256 kbps AAC encoding for audio quality virtually indistinguishable from the original recordings.


Doesn't mention video?
 
I tunes has offered to upgrade some of my video files to drm free video files ie m4v files, I searched on the store today and found a limited number of videos drm free, however I'm sad to report without conversion these files will not play inside vdj, not all is lost however I did successfully convert one to a standard mp4 file will little issue or effort through visual hub. I sent word to the dev team about this problem hopefully its a short lived one.
 
Slightly OT but on the Windows side there's a problem with using your own mp4 decoder if you have Haali Splitter installed. Virtual DJ will just say error. I'm bringing this up because the method I usually suggest to fix aspect ratios is to use FFDShow and the K-lite Codec Pack is great for fixing broken codecs etc. However, by default it uses Haali which needs to be manually disabled before mp4s will work in VDJ using this method.
 
good too here about the music. They had to do it. The new napster has more music and it was DRM free last summer, I remember reading about it.
 
AAC encoding!
 
I've been playing Itunes Plus videos inside virtual dj for a while now.

The only extra codec I've ever installed on my gig machine is 3ivx so I assume it's that that lets me play those itunes plus videos. I don't get tag information though, very annoying!
 
I already posted to the dev team about the mp4 tag issue as its been noted several times. I can play the itunes files too after I convert them :)
 
So if I were to download a video from iTunes it wouldn't work in VDJ, but i could convert it, is that right?

What do you guys recommend using to convert the file?

Gary
 
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