{"id":2336,"date":"2005-11-18T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2336"},"modified":"2005-11-18T15:33:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-18T19:33:00","slug":"an-itunes-for-the-rest-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2005\/11\/18\/15\/33\/an-itunes-for-the-rest-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"An iTunes For The Rest Of Us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just for laughs I often flip through my (free subscription!) Stereophile magazine. You know, the one with the ads for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amusicdirect.com\/products\/detail.asp?sku=AAQEV8\">$12000 speaker wire<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stereophile.com\/digitalsourcereviews\/570\/index6.html\">$5000 CD players<\/a>. Imagine my surprise when I saw a <a href=\"http:\/\/stereophile.com\/news\/100305musicgiants\/\">preview <\/a>of a new music service, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicgiants.com\/\">MusicGiants<\/a>, that is offering lossless music downloads for $1.29 each. Targeted to &#8220;audiophiles&#8221;, MusicGiants is also selling its &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/technology\/content\/jun2005\/tc2005062_3663_PG2_tc024.htm\">SoundVault<\/a>&#8220;, which seems like some kind of Windows Media Center PC, albeit with a $10,000 price tag, and an ability to download the lossless tracks to some portable media players, with the notable exception of the iPod. Oh, and there&#8217;s a $50 annual fee (!). Ho hum so far, but then I noticed that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicgiants.com\/storymusiccatalog.aspx\">service has significant buy in<\/a> from most of the major labels, indicating that they seem to have developed some faith in the ability of Microsoft&#8217;s DRM to shield their &#8220;top quality&#8221; downloads from pirates. My thinking on this is that if successful, it should prompt Apple to offer lossless downloads from the iTMS Service, if only because Apple likes to present a &#8220;high end&#8221; image, and having a competitor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicgiants.com\/images\/nstory_10.gif\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\">actively dissing iTMS<\/a> by lumping it in, quality-wise, with &#8220;pirated music from p2p networks&#8221; has got to hurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just for laughs I often flip through my (free subscription!) Stereophile magazine. You know, the one with the ads for the $12000 speaker wire and $5000 CD players. Imagine my surprise when I saw&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}