iTunes

James Hatts · Tue 08 Jun, 2004 20.55

I've heard 89p suggested as the price per track

DJGM · Tue 15 Jun, 2004 19.18

The iTunes Music Store for the UK, Germany and France was officially launched by Apple in London today

At last, an online music store that I can actually use, And at 79p per song, it's reasonably priced too . . .

Which is (IMO) somewhat unusual, since Apple, and reasonably priced goods, very rarely go together, if at all!

At least I don't have to put up with any unreasonable and stupid software requirements, to be able to use
the iTMS. Any songs I buy from the iTMS can be played on both my PC and my iMac, which makes it much
less restrictive, and much fairer than other online music stores, such as Napster and BigNoiseMusic.com . . .

Pete · Thu 17 Jun, 2004 21.50

iTunes is a very slick operation I have to say. I've bought one song so far and I am very impressed with the codec they are using. I also have downloaded songs from od2 and thought they were of very poor quality but iTunes is very nice to listen to.

Now if only it would play WMA properly instead of having to convert them to another format I could be tempted away to this proggie and onyl use WMP for video.

Neil Jones · Fri 18 Jun, 2004 00.09

Huh, I downloaded all 20Mb of this and couldn't get bugger all out of it.

Plus my computer started showing me nice blue screens at shutdown as well with a STOP: 0x8E message which is apparently "reserved for hardware errors". Which was clever considering I hadn't installed any. Eventually managed to roll the system back to how it was before installing iTunes and all works now.

Don't think I'll be using iTunes somehow.

DJGM · Fri 18 Jun, 2004 03.27

Neil Jones wrote: Huh, I downloaded all 20Mb of this and couldn't get bugger all out of it.

Plus my computer started showing me nice blue screens at shutdown as well with a STOP: 0x8E message
which is apparently "reserved for hardware errors". Which was clever considering I hadn't installed any.
Eventually managed to roll the system back to how it was before installing iTunes and all works now.

Don't think I'll be using iTunes somehow.

Hmmm, iTunes causing a STOP error, that sounds very unusual. I'd recommend reporting that problem to Apple . . .

Pete · Fri 18 Jun, 2004 08.13

Neil Jones wrote:Huh, I downloaded all 20Mb of this and couldn't get bugger all out of it.

Plus my computer started showing me nice blue screens at shutdown as well with a STOP: 0x8E message which is apparently "reserved for hardware errors". Which was clever considering I hadn't installed any. Eventually managed to roll the system back to how it was before installing iTunes and all works now.

Don't think I'll be using iTunes somehow.

aren't you on Windows 98 Neil?

iTunes only works with NT5

DJGM · Fri 18 Jun, 2004 08.52

iTunes will point blank refuse to install on Windows 98! You have to have at least Windows 2000 or XP . . .

James Martin · Sat 19 Jun, 2004 23.45

Neil, why Windows 98?

The only place I see Windows 98 in use these days is our radio station's playout system which requires it, otherwise it'd be on 2000.

Neil Jones · Sun 20 Jun, 2004 09.52

Flava wrote:Neil, why Windows 98?

The only place I see Windows 98 in use these days is our radio station's playout system which requires it, otherwise it'd be on 2000.

I am not on Windows 98 any longer, I have been on Windows XP Home since February. And as has been stated, iTunes doesn't work on Win98 nor does Win98 throw up STOP: 8x0e error messages either which are NT based. Plus it's a lighter shade of blue as well on the error screens whereas WinXP's is dark blue.

As for your comment about "the only place I see Windows 98 in use these days" is very flippant and sounds like something Hymagumba would come out with - arrogantly.

Pete · Sun 20 Jun, 2004 10.46

Neil Jones wrote:As for your comment about "the only place I see Windows 98 in use these days" is very flippant and sounds like something Hymagumba would come out with - arrogantly.

I was going to reply to JM's post earlier with something along the lines of "maybe because that's what he has".

I see Windows 98 around everywhere as it and 98SE are just about the only stable versions of the old 9x series.

I didn't know you had XP Neil, you mention "98 Gold" quite often so I thought you were still on that. Can't say I've actually tried installing it on 98 so I didn't know what it would do.