Re: Sonos - what's the point?

[Martin Howell <martin.howell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

...and they wonder why people just download the music and nick it.  If
they are looking for a way to stop piracy, this ain't it

Martin

Andy Davies wrote:

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>>There I was ready to part with my hard earned cash on a set of
Sonons
>>zone plsyers and a controller..............and then I find out if i
>>buy it I can't use about 500 of my songs. Why? Because I'm a good
boy
>>and pay to download songs from itunes.
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>>Sonos is supposed to be a digital music player, but you still have
to
>>buy the CD's and then burn them onto your hard drive.
>>Sonons supports itunes playlists but not legally downloaded music
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>>So can someone help me out with this.......please
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>Surely this is a limitation of iTunes and Apple's* unwillingness to
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>It's why I'm never likely to buy much music online - with a CD I can
>listen to it, lend it to a friend, rip it to multiple devices or if I
>don't like it flog it or give it away, the online music stores seem to
>want to take half of these rights away!
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>* it's not just Apple, the rest of the music stores suffer the same
>problem too.
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