{"id":558,"date":"2006-09-03T01:38:33","date_gmt":"2006-09-03T09:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=558"},"modified":"2006-09-03T02:08:24","modified_gmt":"2006-09-03T10:08:24","slug":"more-on-itunes-and-modern-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"More on iTunes and Modern Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cory Doctorow wrote to say: <\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Kim, it appears that the four tracks you couldn't burn were video- files that probably couldn't be burned to a redbook CD, though the UI is still inexcusably confusing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But there's still something rotten in Denmark.<\/p>\n

If you go to buy the plastic CD at Amazon, here is the track list you see<\/a>.  Check it out.  There are two disks – an Audio CD (Disc 1) and a DVD (Disc 2):<\/p>\n

Track Listings<\/strong><\/p>\n

Disc: 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Thunder On The Mountain  <\/li>\n
  2. Spirit On The Water  <\/li>\n
  3. Rollin’ and Tumblin’  <\/li>\n
  4. When The Deal Goes Down  <\/li>\n
  5. Someday Baby  <\/li>\n
  6. Workingman's Blues #2  <\/li>\n
  7. Beyond The Horizon  <\/li>\n
  8. Nettie Moore  <\/li>\n
  9. The Levee's Gonna Break  <\/li>\n
  10. Ain't Talkin’  <\/li>\n
  11. Blood In My Eyes <\/li>\n
  12. Love Sick  <\/li>\n
  13. Things Have Changed  <\/li>\n
  14. Cold Irons Bound <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Dsc: 2<\/strong> <\/p>\n

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    1. Cold Irons Bound (Unreleased live version from Masked & Anonymous) <\/li>\n
    2. Blood In My Eyes <\/li>\n
    3. Things Have Changed <\/li>\n
    4. Love Sick (From The Grammy Awards) <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      In other words, Amazon says the audio CD includes the audio tracks<\/strong> corresponding to the videos you get on the second disk.  Isn't that what you would expect?<\/p>\n

      The virtual product doesn't let you do the same thing.  Who cares if it's not DRM on the audio – but instead, DRM on the video?  I'm unable to strip the audio off the video to burn it to a CD.<\/p>\n

      I think iTunes (or is it Sony?) should have structured their download the way they did with the molecular set – giving you all the audio tracks, and letting you copy them to a CD.<\/p>\n

      As Cory says, the iTunes user interface is – in this one case – incredibly confusing.  But in truth, even if iTunes fixed it, I wouldn't be happy with the Dylan album experience.  When I download an album I want the equivalent<\/strong> of the molecular product – with all of its 14 tracks, or whatever it's supposed to have.<\/p>\n

      Meanwhile, Alex J wrote to me from England.<\/p>\n

      Alex apparently doesn't think that videos have an audio track, or that I should expect to be able to put the soundtrack on an audio CD the way Sony did in the brick and mortar world (the miracles of modern science!).  He writes:<\/p>\n

      <\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

      mmmm.. I don't see any DRM problems at all. I don't see any errors on the part of iTunes anywhere. I don't see …. well, shall I tell you what I DO see?<\/p>\n

      I see a loud mouthed idiot getting hysterical over the fact that he (she?) is trying to burn 4 bonus video – VIDEO – tracks to an audio CD and is being told by iTunes that it can't be done.<\/p>\n

      Funny that.<\/p>\n

      Now, stop frothing at the mouth, go and burn tracks 1 through 10 (ie. the audio tracks, you know, the music?), and r-e-l-a-x. Oh, and don't forget to put up a retraction of your silly rant \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

      <\/font>I guess “frothing” is not inaccurate, though hauling out the word “bonus” to legitimize the iTunization of the last four songs is a bit much – as is the implication that they don't contain “music”.  <\/font><\/p>\n

      Getting down to brass tacks, the trouble is that Blood In My Eyes and Things Have Changed are pretty decent songs (you know, those audio things), and I don't want them caged up inside the proprietary iTunes environment.<\/font> <\/font> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Blood In My Eyes and Things Have Changed are pretty decent songs, and I don't want them caged up inside the iTunes environment. As for the video portion, I don't need it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,17,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}