Comments on: DRM rears its ugly head

By: fifiward

fifiward — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 06:42:18 +0000

I use a program called NOteBurner to convert aa files to mp3, but the whole audio book will be divided into several small mp3s.

By: Rickard

Rickard — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:25:55 +0000

AAC is a competitor to MP3, but that’s besides the point. The format of the audiobook I got from Audible is AA, not AAC.

I believe the iPod market share is something like 70%. Personally, I don’t own an iPod because I can’t be bothered to carry around both an iPod and a cell phone.

By: BILL

BILL — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:22:04 +0000

I will be downloading the same book but isn’t .aac format just the new version of mp3 that plays in ipods? Don’t something like 90% of the public that owns an mp3 player own an ipod?

I guess it’s kind of like software that only runs on windows — because 90% of computers are windows they don’t bother to make versions of the software that runs on other players. I ended up getting an emulater to run windows on my Mac for just that reason…

I wonder if there is an ipod emulator that will run on a Zune?

By: Anton

Anton — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:33:35 +0000

I agree. It’s a bit scare how much crap we put up with, and it looks like it’s just getting worse (in some cases).

I got Dan Browns book Deception Point on audio cd for my birthday and I have no way of playing it because when I put it in my PC it just loads a built-in media player.

I can’t even play the disc as a normal audio-cd on my PC.

What pisses me off is that under Windows there is a option to convert all tracks to DRM-protected WMA using the built in player on the cd, but in our case (I run Linux and you run OS X I guess) we have no way of accessing this media what so ever.

And since I only listen to audio on my PC and my iPod, this box i completely useless to me. Well spent money.