Star Rebel EFI: Send your Computer to Psystar for Compatibility?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 5th Nov 2009 21:49 UTC
Hardware, Embedded Systems We already had the news about Psystar's Rebel EFI possibly including open source code, but now we have another story which doesn't really seem to bode well for the small Florida clone maker. Gizmodo has a story on an interesting customer experience.
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RE[3]: lol
by UZ64 on Fri 6th Nov 2009 23:12 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: lol"
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"Very simply put, content. Most of the content that is or can be used on an iPod can easily be transferred to competing devices of the same ilk. Music I purchase from ITMS even can be easily burned to a CD and then taken to whatever other device I please, be it a Zune, my car's CD player or my home entertainment system. I can even re-rip it into MP3 and put it on any el cheapo MP3 player I please."

Let me get this straight. You mean transcoding from original to lossy AAC to lossy burned CD to lossy MP3 is acceptable? Sorry, but I'll stick with well-supported non-DRMed audio file formats, or better yet, the original copy ripped in FLAC or WavPack (ie. lossless formats which *can* safely be compressed by a lossy encoder such as MP3).

AAC already tosses out unthinkable amounts of audio data, which you will NEVER get back from an iTunes Store AAC audio; converting back to CD audio/wav and then back to MP3 (or any other format) is something that should NEVER be done if you value the quality of your music. More data (data=QUALITY) is lost for every generation of "converted" audio files. And you're using this poor practice to *defend* Apple and their DRM-infested store?

Wow... seriously, you've got a few things to learn. HydrogenAudio is a good place to start. ALWAYS use an audio encoder on the original, full-quality source material (read: the actual CD). Restrain from converting already-lossy (ie. MP3 and AAC) files to another format. The ONLY way to listen to the music you bought in 100% quality is on the devices that Apple says you can. Why? The DRM says so. Simple as that.

Edited 2009-11-06 23:15 UTC

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