<![CDATA[Sony Kills Music Store, Tells Customers to Rip Their ATRACs - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Sony Kills Music Store, Tells Customers to Rip Their ATRACs - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Sony Kills Music Store, Tells Customers to Rip Their ATRACs]]> Yet another dead format from Sony. Haven't they learned from their history with Betamax, UMD, Digidisk (or whatever it name was) and countless other crappy, unnecessary media formats they created and met the same fate? Their expensive and totally incompatible with anything else Memory Sticks can't die any sooner. And BlueRay may be ahead in the game now, but I'm not betting on it to win.

deadlizard

]]> <![CDATA[Sony Kills Music Store, Tells Customers to Rip Their ATRACs]]> @XtremeCamera:
>Seems to me that Apple's got the lock, through luck, timing, software, whatever.

It's called *sex appeal*, gramps. ;)

JoeCassara

]]> <![CDATA[Sony Kills Music Store, Tells Customers to Rip Their ATRACs]]> Aw shucks. Sony Connect easily had the best searching of any online music service I've tried. I can't speak for their DRM, though. My summer job required me to experience the systems of several music stores, and Connect was easily the best, even over iTunes, in terms of speed and UI. It had a really great selection, too, but no one competes with iTunes there. The only downside was that you have to use Internet Explorer to browse their site

It's a shame to see the best site (and all my hard work) go down.

Jawajoey

]]> <![CDATA[Sony Kills Music Store, Tells Customers to Rip Their ATRACs]]> A serious case of the "AMFYOYO"

read on

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discounteggroll

]]> <![CDATA[Sony Kills Music Store, Tells Customers to Rip Their ATRACs]]> ATRAC or 8-TRACK ?

aec007

]]> <![CDATA[Sony Kills Music Store, Tells Customers to Rip Their ATRACs]]> Hmmmm....this could be a sign of Sony BMG selling un-DRM'd music on iTunes.

cduran02

]]> <![CDATA[Sony Kills Music Store, Tells Customers to Rip Their ATRACs]]> @scrawledinwax: I liked their players at some point, until I went through so many that had crappy headphone jacks that eventually wore out and would only play through one ear of every headset.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

]]> <![CDATA[Sony Kills Music Store, Tells Customers to Rip Their ATRACs]]> Only suckers pay for music online.

DrifterTech

]]> <![CDATA[Sony Kills Music Store, Tells Customers to Rip Their ATRACs]]> @XtremeCamera:

Or iTMS will be the last to acknowledge that the public would prefer DRM free music for their dollar.

Not that Sony has been an angel in regards to DRM, but maybe this is another sign of the changing times (particularly the fact that Sony explicitly explained how to circumvent the DRM)

cyberlink74

]]> <![CDATA[Sony Kills Music Store, Tells Customers to Rip Their ATRACs]]> Maybe they shouldn't have given their format a homophone for another failed format

God made the pretty girls pretty because he likes them more

]]> <![CDATA[Sony Kills Music Store, Tells Customers to Rip Their ATRACs]]> All this means is that Sony are going the Creative route - stop having their own store and just support other stores by having your players do DRM-WMA and DRM-free MP3/WMA/AAC.

I have this weird, irrational thing for Walkmans, but now that the software doesn't suck and the hardware is still good, what's not to like. If you can find one of the new players on sale later, go nuts.

scrawledinwax

]]> <![CDATA[Sony Kills Music Store, Tells Customers to Rip Their ATRACs]]> So, they're going to dump their crappy ATRAC format for Windows Media? Good job Sony, may your sphincters one day be headless.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

]]> <![CDATA[Sony Kills Music Store, Tells Customers to Rip Their ATRACs]]> SO are they moving to using DRM free music, or simply to a different DRM version?

Cos this ilustrates the problem with DRM purchases.. you are locked into one system, one set of software... and if they decide to chuck it in then you are stuffed.

This is why i used to buy all my digtal music from allofmp3.com before they got shut down.. not because it was cheap (i'd have happily voluntarily paid more) but because it was DRM free. (plus i could choose the quality and format and pay accordingly.)

I still think the best way to buy music is to buy the CD and rip it though.. that way you have a high quality backup source available.. and if formats and players change you can always re-rip it at a higher quality.

soul_grind

]]> <![CDATA[Sony Kills Music Store, Tells Customers to Rip Their ATRACs]]>
In what way is the Windows Media Platform open??

smac1

]]> <![CDATA[Sony Kills Music Store, Tells Customers to Rip Their ATRACs]]> Will they continue to support my rootkit vulnerability?

blank

]]> <![CDATA[Sony Kills Music Store, Tells Customers to Rip Their ATRACs]]> nokia anyone?

kingshrimp

]]> <![CDATA[Sony Kills Music Store, Tells Customers to Rip Their ATRACs]]> @daaniel: me too

Type-E

]]> <![CDATA[Sony Kills Music Store, Tells Customers to Rip Their ATRACs]]> That graphic makes me chuckle every time I see it.

james-42

]]> <![CDATA[Sony Kills Music Store, Tells Customers to Rip Their ATRACs]]> @mudman:
lol exactly what i was thinking


daaniel

]]> <![CDATA[Sony Kills Music Store, Tells Customers to Rip Their ATRACs]]> I'm beginning to think that no matter which company tries to topple Apple's iTMS it will fail. No amount of money, no amount of DRM-Free music, no amount of advertising, no amount of anything can or will work. Seems to me that Apple's got the lock, through luck, timing, software, whatever. They were in the right place at the right time, and I think that most people who buy music online simply trust the iTMS and do not trust the others. I could be wrong, but I think that for the foreseeable future iTMS is it, period.

Which is weird for me, cause I think I've purchased about 5 songs on iTMS since it opened. I use MP3Sparks now, and that's it. A dollar for a song is, to me, a whole lot of money, but I suppose there are tons of people that think otherwise.

XtremeCamera

]]> <![CDATA[Sony Kills Music Store, Tells Customers to Rip Their ATRACs]]> Now how am I going to get my ATRAC fix?

God made the pretty girls pretty because he likes them more

]]> <![CDATA[Sony Kills Music Store, Tells Customers to Rip Their ATRACs]]> Is this a description of how to get around Sonicstage? "Archive to an audio CD and rip it into mp3" Gawd... if someone had like 400+ songs that would take forever.

Fortunately, I'm pretty sure nobody was that stupid to get hitched with Sony's exclusive format. I think everybody knew that (except Sony, but it looks like they got wise...)

JasonCo

]]> <![CDATA[Sony Kills Music Store, Tells Customers to Rip Their ATRACs]]> Sony has a store?

mudman

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