acquiring digital music

[Dennis Kibbe]

On 10/6/05, Jeremy C. Reed <reed at reedmedia.net> wrote:
>
> > into standard MP4s and a cool CLI audio player. Looks like it's Open,
> Free
> > as in beer but not GPL'd (Copyright retained by the author)
>
> GPL'd software also has the copyright retained by the author.
>
> Jeremy C. Reed
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One could argue that iTunes, Sony SonicStage, etc. is just another form of
vendor lockin.

I like the philosophy of John Buckman at Magnatune (
http://www.magnatune.com/info/why). They offer a wide variety of music and
you can download in many different formats including ogg and flac.

Dennisk
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