12-30-2008, 09:54 PM
Sorry.
Don't be. It's just *not* a big deal.
I'm not a big Beethoven fan. That is, I enjoy a lot of "That's Beethoven, don'tcha know" but I'd never recognize anything other than his two more famous works.
But I'll be in for $2. Amazon says there stuff is 256-bit rate, but some of the stuff I've bought is VRB. Still, no DRM.
Burn it as much as you want, but you might think about the spirit of DRM-free music.
From one review:
However, if you have already decided you like classical music and are looking at this set as a quick collection builder, you might want to keep looking elsewhere. My main gripe is that this is a collection of "best of" excerpts -- almost no complete works, just individual movements and snippets cut and pasted together in a kind of hodgepodge. Maddening is that even when multiple movements are presented from the same work, they are not together, but scattered around separately in various places.
I am particularly puzzled by the 9th Symphony. This is the only one of the nine that is actually fully present, with all four movements included in the set. But they are not in order, scattered all around the place. For Pete's sake, why?
For $2, it's-- OK. I'm not knowledgeable enough to say "WTF?!". But after glancing at that one review, I'd have to say that buying any of those tracks for 99c without being told that these are snippets, etc., borders on a business practice I wouldn't expect from Amazon.
Don't be. It's just *not* a big deal.
I'm not a big Beethoven fan. That is, I enjoy a lot of "That's Beethoven, don'tcha know" but I'd never recognize anything other than his two more famous works.
But I'll be in for $2. Amazon says there stuff is 256-bit rate, but some of the stuff I've bought is VRB. Still, no DRM.
Burn it as much as you want, but you might think about the spirit of DRM-free music.
From one review:
However, if you have already decided you like classical music and are looking at this set as a quick collection builder, you might want to keep looking elsewhere. My main gripe is that this is a collection of "best of" excerpts -- almost no complete works, just individual movements and snippets cut and pasted together in a kind of hodgepodge. Maddening is that even when multiple movements are presented from the same work, they are not together, but scattered around separately in various places.
I am particularly puzzled by the 9th Symphony. This is the only one of the nine that is actually fully present, with all four movements included in the set. But they are not in order, scattered all around the place. For Pete's sake, why?
For $2, it's-- OK. I'm not knowledgeable enough to say "WTF?!". But after glancing at that one review, I'd have to say that buying any of those tracks for 99c without being told that these are snippets, etc., borders on a business practice I wouldn't expect from Amazon.