11-17-2015, 05:34 PM
Lux Interior wrote:
[quote=silvarios]
The iPod stinks. Try getting your non DRM stuff of the iPod.
Well, first, I didn't delete my non-DRM stuff off of my computer after I loaded it onto my iPod.
I only used iPods for music. I guess I never had a problem with iTunes/Soundjam, either.
If I did need to get my stuff off, there were utilities.
But I haven't used stand-alone (i.e. non-iPhone) iPods regularly for years.
You didn't read what I wrote. You travel someone with your content and you can't get it off your iPod. Not everyone had a laptop back in the day. Then you had to download a tool to read the iPod, many were paid utilities and you had to hope the location would let you download the tool in the first place. I learned that the iPod could be a travel companion, but if I wanted to a. listen to non DRM content and b. have access on the go to that non DRM content, the only option was disk mode and loading the same content twice. These days it's worse, try interacting with non DRM content iTunes while an iOS device is connected to a different computer than the one you loaded the content onto. Last time I tried this (from iOS 2-iOS 6 days), pretty sure I was told my only option was to erase and re sync from the other computer.
Anyone defending the idea that your own content can be locked away from you because the vendor says so, man, I really don't have words. The fact that Apple locked non DRM content to the device was pretty crappy.
On the flip side, the fact you can't access your DRM content without iTunes is also pretty crappy. I switched to Linux, how do I get my content? I have a Roku, how do I get my content? I have a Mac with a web browser, but a version of iTunes that is too old since the content has been updated with a more recent version of FairPlay, how do I get my content? The whole ecosystem is one big bag of hurt. Enabling web access would go a long way to making this stuff usable. The proper DRM tokens can be set in modern browsers. Maybe not FairPlay itself, but HTML5 is properly infected by DRM now.