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RIAA wants $22,500 per song

YB85 said:
Next time you have your ipod hooked up to your computer, go into the settings and click "Manually manage music and videos". This way, you can keep your Celine Dion songs and not have your wife's music give them the boot.
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There's more to the story... Most of my Celine songs came from limewire, so it's not like I can email iTools and get those back.
 
TroutBum said:
There's more to the story... Most of my Celine songs came from limewire, so it's not like I can email iTools and get those back.
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Chad Feldheimer said:
"According to Crawdaddy.com, Napster founder Sean Parker is currently in talks with investors to buy Warner Music Group for around $2.5 Billion Dollars.

WMG is the current home of Metallica’s back catalogue, from 1983’s Kill ‘Em All, all the way to 2008’s Death Magnetic."
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Am I missing something? Every Metallica album up to Death Magnetic was released on Elektra. After Saint Anger, Metallica was out from under Elektra and signed with Warner. Did Warner buy the rights to all of the back catalouge as well?
 
YB85 said:
Just to be clear, Sean Parker, the guy trying to buy WMG, is not the same guy who battled Metallica and the labels back in 2001. That is Sean Fanning.
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Good catch. Just read his Wiki page. Appears Parker was working with Napster but wasn't a co-founder.

I remembered it was Sean something.
 
Sirkickyass said:
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This is actually pretty funny.

But more seriously what about people who had music they purchased and cannot replace now deleted by iTunesvirus? Happened to my wife. She ripped all of her CDs to use with her first MP3 player, the CDs for many of them no longer are readable, but she was not worried because the music is in the computer right? She doesn't file share, hell she can barely check her email. She moved her music to an MP3 player to exercise with. Her MP3 player died, nothing retrievable and she thought it would be fun to get an iPod Touch. So we do, install iTunes and the music is gone. iTunes wiped most of it out. Now I guess it is time to buy about a dozen CDs again, since they won't do anything about it. iTunesvirus is a bane on all that is holy.


(I added that last part because I am the biggest fan of hyperbole that has ever lived and ever will live in any form of existence imaginable!)
 
LogGrad98 said:
This is actually pretty funny.

But more seriously what about people who had music they purchased and cannot replace now deleted by iTunesvirus? Happened to my wife. She ripped all of her CDs to use with her first MP3 player, the CDs for many of them no longer are readable, but she was not worried because the music is in the computer right? She doesn't file share, hell she can barely check her email. She moved her music to an MP3 player to exercise with. Her MP3 player died, nothing retrievable and she thought it would be fun to get an iPod Touch. So we do, install iTunes and the music is gone. iTunes wiped most of it out. Now I guess it is time to buy about a dozen CDs again, since they won't do anything about it. iTunesvirus is a bane on all that is holy.


(I added that last part because I am the biggest fan of hyperbole that has ever lived and ever will live in any form of existence imaginable!)
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Did I say Limewire? I meant that they all came from my personal CD collection.
 
LogGrad98 said:
This is actually pretty funny.

But more seriously what about people who had music they purchased and cannot replace now deleted by iTunesvirus? Happened to my wife. She ripped all of her CDs to use with her first MP3 player, the CDs for many of them no longer are readable, but she was not worried because the music is in the computer right? She doesn't file share, hell she can barely check her email. She moved her music to an MP3 player to exercise with. Her MP3 player died, nothing retrievable and she thought it would be fun to get an iPod Touch. So we do, install iTunes and the music is gone. iTunes wiped most of it out. Now I guess it is time to buy about a dozen CDs again, since they won't do anything about it. iTunesvirus is a bane on all that is holy.


(I added that last part because I am the biggest fan of hyperbole that has ever lived and ever will live in any form of existence imaginable!)
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Investing in a backup portable drive pays for itself.
 
YB85 said:
Investing in a backup portable drive pays for itself.
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Yes it does. Yes we did. Apple is still a company producing "legit" viruses in the guise of music catalogue programs. And yes Steve Jobs is the spawn of Satan.

Sad that the answer to an intrusive company deleting your personal data and property is to back it up rather than them being held accountable in any way. (not that that is the only reason for a backup HD but you get the point)

So we did the next best thing. Bye bye iPod touch, hello Zune. Better interface too (imo and imwo) and does not force you to do anything with your stuff other than what you want to do.
 
Hantlers said:
I was just being a sarcastic arse. And I've been around Jazzfanz for longer than you have, I was here for the days of Pearl and Tuff Tiger and Kiri.de.carlos.
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Oh, this is cute. Pulling the veteran card. Let me clue you in on something...no one gives a ****.
 
YB85 said:
Investing in a backup portable drive pays for itself.
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True.

That said, I dont think Ive ever purchased a song or album from itunes. Also, the shelf life of digital music is absolutely ****ing horrific. Most of the files I deal with are either FLAC or MP3 320 and every now and again something borks and one of them gets a digital hit.

Anyway, in other related news, this Saturday is national record store day!!! Rejoice.
 
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