Apple changes it's (i)Tune

[JSE]

Forgive my limited iPod knowledge even though I started out with the original but....

What about the music I already have bought on iTunes? Will it now play on any devise? Or, is this just for newly purchased music?

BTW Rich, which model Nano do you have? Is it the last version (square'ish) model? I have a 60GB vidio iPod and my wife has the square Nano. I hate that Apple went back to the longer rectangular Nano.

[Rich-n-Texas]

Forgive my limited iPod knowledge even though I started out with the original but....

What about the music I already have bought on iTunes? Will it now play on any devise? Or, is this just for newly purchased music?

BTW Rich, which model Nano do you have? Is it the last version (square'ish) model? I have a 60GB vidio iPod and my wife has the square Nano. I hate that Apple went back to the longer rectangular Nano.

My Nano was a 2nd gen, which is the rectangular one with curved sides. I purchased a "Faux"(sp?) leather case and armband which was useful when I went to the gym. I had no gripes with it but I just didn't like carrying around an iPod, cell phone...etc. Too much hardware.

[JSE]

My Nano was a 2nd gen, which is the rectangular one with curved sides. I purchased a "Faux"(sp?) leather case and armband which was useful when I went to the gym. I had no gripes with it but I just didn't like carrying around an iPod, cell phone...etc. Too much hardware.

Dang, I was going to offer to buy yours off you if were going to get rid of it. If it were the last gen model.

[Rich-n-Texas]

I'm right now on the Amazon MP3 music store page searching for these cheap songs but so far with little success. I went to their FAQ page and clicked the link for DRM. It said all of Amazon's MP3's are DRM free. Great! So I clicked on the "Classic Rock" section then "Album Oriented Rock" and was shown albums from artists like Led Zeppelin, Yes, Pink Floyd...etc, but of this sampling of three artists, the ONLY SONG I could find that was less than their normal price was "Stairway to Heaven", for 79 cents. That was it. So where're the 69 cent songs? Why can't I search on songs based on price? WTF? Maybe I'm not being patient enough? "Stairway to Heaven" is an "oldie", but so is "Us and Them" by Pink Floyd. Guess what? It costs $1.94. So whats the deal? Are stores other than the iTunes store holding out until demand at their stores decreases? And I STILL don't see any way to find out what the bitrate of these songs are without having to buy them first. 10 bucks says the cheap-to-purchase songs will have crappy old 128Kbps, and the 1 dollar + songs will be 256 or VBR. Typical corporate bullsh!t.

:shakes head in disgust:

Correction: The bit rate is shown and songs purchased for 99 cents are at 256Kbps.