Downloaded the Radiohead album. Everyone gets a special individual link, which I assume is to do a special individual piracy trace if you upload it to a file sharing site. I would like to test this, but can't figure out how to do so without actually sharing the files, which I think would be wrong. But I'm sure we'll find out soon enough.
The album itself? Due to the way I imported it, iTunes is playing the songs out of order, which is curiously charming. So far I like it enough that I'm toying with bumping Radiohead replacement albums up higher in the music priority queue. But it might start sucking towards the beginning or something.
How much did you choose to pay for the album?
I developed a sophisticated algorithm, plugged it into my supercomputer and . . . gave them five bucks.
I would like to thank Meagan for that authentic bit of iTunes gibberish. I am particularly proud the children were here to hear it today.
I understood Radiohead, but what was the rest of the post? I suddenly felt old.
What were the file format and bitrate?
Matt, there are 10 DRM-free MP3 files in 160kbps
I dragged and dropped the files onto iTunes; as a result, it played the album in the order that it copied them, rather than the order that the album is arranged in.
The rest is for longtime readers; briefly, I've lost so much music in various moves and hard drive crashes that I'm essentially rebuilding my music collection from scratch. Liking the Radiohead album reminded me that I might want to prioritize adding a couple of their albums back into Megan's Music Collection v. 4.6
You can play the album in iTunes in order by selecting the 'Album' column in the display, and scrolling to 'In Rainbows' and playing from the first track. Just so's you know.
If you're really curious about piracy tracing, compare the checksums of a particular track downloaded by two different people.
(http://www.etree.org/md5com.html has a checksum calculator - just run it from the command line)
If they are identical, there is no identifying information.
radiohead is cool
depressing
yet cool
Here's a tip; get a real MP3 player instead of the shop front that is iTunes. I recommend AlbumPlayer or Media Jukebox.