I have used both MusicMatch and iTunes software to both RIP music as well as to buy music online.
The iTunes folks have really intrigued me by displaying celebrity playlists. Ordinarily, I don't engage in a lot of celebrity curiosity. I don't read people magazine, or collect autographs. I don't have any curiosity about how Martin Sheen feels about Iraq or what Will Smith thinks about nanotechnology. But what music they listen to, for some reason, that seems interesting to me. Of course I have this niggling feeling that the playlist may have created by their publicist or perhaps the studio overlords who also happen to own a music catalog.
How do I like buying music online? For the most part I like it. I still have this little voice in the back of the room whispering that the software will change and your rights to your purchase will be taken away or restricted over time. When I have the CD, I feel I can prevent the music industry from busting down my door to get back my latest purchase. I still wish that I could buy the right to check-out a fixed number of titles at a time and then return them when I am done. I like listening to samples before I buy.
What am I listening to now ... "Be My Yoko Ono" by the Barenaked Ladies.
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do you have a CD burner? if so, you can rip the albums you buy to CD and not worry about your rights to the music changing. i think in a recent itunes "update," they further restricted the number of times you can burn the song to CD.
once you burn them to CD-R, can you rip them back in itunes?