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Media (Apple)

Submission + - The Insanely Great Songs Apple Won't Let you Hear

FunkeyMonk writes: "Slate.com has an article by Paul Collins explaining that the iTunes music store has thousands of tracks that you can't buy in the U.S. From the article:
The iTunes Music Store has a secret hiding in plain sight: Log out of your home account in the page's upper-right corner, switch the country setting at the bottom of the page to Japan, and you're dropped down a rabbit hole into a wonderland of great Japanese bands that you've never even heard of. And they're nowhere to be found on iTunes U.S.
The article goes on to mention a few workarounds if you want to purchase foreign tunes. But this brings up a good point — why shouldn't iTunes be the great mythical omniscient music repository where all the world's music is available instantly? Is this a case of **AA greed, or simply a marketing decision?"
Music

Submission + - Does portable music have to be compressed?

FunkeyMonk writes: "http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1201/p11s01-stct.htm l The Christian Science monitor has an article discussing the gap between music fans and audiophiles when it comes to portable music. Would slashdot readers pay a few cents more to have lossless downloads from iTunes and other online music retailers? As a classical musician myself, I choose not to download most of my music, but rather rip it myself in lossless format."

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