{"id":1020,"date":"2008-01-28T12:15:45","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T20:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/amazon-mp3"},"modified":"2008-01-28T12:55:28","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T20:55:28","slug":"amazon-mp3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/amazon-mp3\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon MP3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;ve ever posted to the effect, but I was turned off to the iTunes music store as soon as they upgraded their <abbr title=\"Digital Restrictions\/Rights Management (depending on who you ask)\">DRM<\/abbr>, breaking the tool I was using that allowed me to continue using my <a href=\"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/foobar-2000\">music player of preference<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foobar2000.org\/\">foobar2000<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In conversations since then, I have always maintained that I would become a music consumer once again as soon as I found a store that would sell me the music I wanted without the stupid (breakable) strings attached that came with other services. For example, it would have been easy enough to burn my iTunes music to a CD, and then rip it using <abbr title=\"Exact Audio Copy\">EAC<\/abbr> and encode it with <abbr title=\"Lame Ain't an MP3 Encoder (Actually, it is)\">LAME<\/abbr>, but that required work that I didn&#8217;t have to do if I just typed a name into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emule-project.net\/\">eMule<\/a> and downloaded the song in a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>I am happy to announce that I have recently discovered the store that I was looking for, and to find it I didn&#8217;t have to go very far. Local retail powerhouse <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/\">Amazon.com<\/a> has introduced high-quality DRM-free MP3s at a reasonable price at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/mp3\">Amazon MP3 Store<\/a>. I am once again a music consumer. See, music industry, that wasn&#8217;t so hard, was it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;ve ever posted to the effect, but I was turned off to the iTunes music store as soon as they upgraded their DRM, breaking the tool I was using that allowed me to continue using my music player of preference, foobar2000. In conversations since then, I have always maintained that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,8],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-music","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}