Evil Daystar!

[secondlina]

 

I'm a big fan of buying music legally. But i'm currently overloaded with CDs. So when I finally decided to give itunes a try it quickly became one of my favorite things. I also discovered thinkgeek, Threadless and Bluenotes and yeah... I might not walk back into a mall for a while. Isa likes having things but doesn't like trekking for it. I'll still go shop for books though. Because bookstores are special. And awesome bookstores like "Planet BD" often have books that I could NEVER find online, rare little gems of great artistic beauty. I always found shopping for books was a discovery and an adventure. Shopping for other things was a long walk with a specific goal. So meh. I pretty much only like shopping with the company of very specific friends. 

This weekend a few friends of mine are visiting To celebrate my birthday. My birthday is actually on the 24th of May, but since it's a national long holiday weekend in Canada, most people have plans (trips and etc). So it's being celebrated in advance. Still fun. I get cake. :D

Mhhh....Yeah, not much to say today. I'm gonna stop here.

- Isa

Comments

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

iTunes is so dangerous! I love to browse there, but I try to be good about what I buy, else IU would be penniless. (And sometimes I miss having CDs as backup. Not to mention the booklet with things like song lyrics.)

Have fun this weekend, even if it is early. Early is better than not at all! ^_-

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

I usually back everything up anyways, so i,m fine with itunes. It does get pretty addictive and that's dangerous for the wallet!

[brendala.livejournal.com]

Do you need to have an iPod to use iTunes? I'd like to give it a try; but I still have my old, bulky, walkman-sized MP3 player and I like it too much to give it up.

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

Whatever you download to iTunes will stay on iTunes where you can burn it to CD if you wish, or if you have an iPod you can put the music on that. You might be able to get the songs onto an mp3 player, I doubt directly from iTunes though. (There's always a way to get around such things.)

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

You can't sync a non-ipod with itunes, but you can still use it to download things.

I might recommend you find another downloading program though. Itunes is great, but it can be a pain if you don't have apple products. In a PC, it's more or less compatible. It won't cause problems, but be aware that it pumps a crackload of RAM. I still have itunes on my PC because my mp3 players is an ipod (and there imcompatible with PC mp3 management programs). But usually when I work on photoshop and chat on AIM at the same time, turning itunes on can really slow down things. It's a whole comptability issue. But it does work on a PC, and the music downloaded should be compatible with your MP3 player. You just can't use itunes to transfert things on the player.

You're probably wondering why I have apple products while still using a PC? Well, as much as apple products like ipods are fun and attrative, Apple still doesn't really let people buy spare parts to build their own, personalized computer. They are pretty anal about it. So I prefer PC because I can get a custom computers composed of parts I hand-picked. Much better then a store-bought brand and less expensive then a store-bought apple with about the same power.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Actually, my custom computer is more powerful then my macbook, so yeah.