05.11
This is pretty screwed up. All sorts of things are running through my mind at the moment, the most prevalent being that I’ve just bought my last piece of music from the iTMS. If they are going to get all ‘you can’t do that’ with music that I buy from them then they can go and… well, I’ll leave it to your imagination.
I’d like to know what’s behind all of this. The RIAA again? The music industry as a whole? Or just Apple? Who knows… But it’s a serious step backwards in the move to modernise the music industry…
Yesterday, Roxio released Toast Titanium 6.1. It fixes a slew of Tiger and Quicktime 7 compatibility bugs, and is a free upgrade for owners of Toast Titanium 6.
The interesting thing about this update, however, isn’t what features it includes, but the features it expressly omits.
The Read Me states: “Following discussions with Apple, this version will no longer allow customers to create audio CDs, audio DVDs, or export audio to their hard drive using purchased iTunes music store content.”
Does anyone really have any idea on why they’d do this? (Apple that is)
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Again, snarfed from TUAW, which is slowly turning into a seriously good source of info…
Hey Pete – i just tested a previous version 6.0.9 while running under tiger with quicktime 7, and it already prevents you from burning itunes purchased music to a music CD format. It gives you a message saying: ” ‘insert music filename here’ was not added because it is not authorized for digital export.”
So either it was already in the previous versions of toast, or the quicktime framework that they built upon to allow importing off AAC files and converting them on the fly to audio cd format, has been updated in quicktime 7/tiger and that is what is preventing it – even in earlier versions that dont specifically state this. I have a feeling, that the quicktime framework became stricter about this in 7 and tiger, and this is simply a byproduct. roxio didnt want to code a workaround or try to bend the quicktime framework they use for importing, and simply put that note in the version history. Thats what makes most sense to me – but I could be wrong. See for yourself though – try an earlier version of toast with an earlier version of quicktime and see if you get same message.
This doesnt mean you cant backup your aac itunes pruchased files to a data cd – it just means you cant burn them directly from aac to an audio cd in toast.
Rob
Hey Rob,
unfortunately I’ve installed tiger on my machines – I haven’t updated toast/jam yet so they don’t even work at the moment so I can’t test it…
I guess this is only really important if you use toast/jam to burn cd’s – but then, maybe this is only the thin end of the wedge and apple’s restrictions will go further… who knows.
i certainly never noticed any issues burning cd’s before now – and that included itms purchases…
hey guys. What’s the deal? Can’t you just burn the songs in iTunes?? Is there a difference? If there is let me know…