[LINK] Apple is turning into the evil empire

[Fernando Cassia]

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Rick Welykochy <rick at praxis.com.au> wrote:
> I haven't had much of a look yet, but it is getting time to get
> back to plain old media players, i.e. something like VLC for video
> and Winamp or equiv for audio. Apple's products are too tied into
> shopping and other such interference.

Agree. Plus, one can use Amazon.com MP3 Store and get "legal" music
downloads without the Apple software.

Even better, buy old-fashioned CDs and DVDs (so our ownership doesnt
depend on data on the cloud and you have physical backups), from a
local store if possible (to support your local economy) and "rip"
those to your PC or a network-attached storage on the LAN, as "FLAC"
(lossless) audio and H.264 video for DVDs**.

Then play those files back at your leisure with VLC or Winamp
(assuming you use Windows) or VLC and Audacious (asuming you use a
flavour of Linux).

Of course all of the above ignores the P2P non-legal downloads...

FC
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http://legroom.net/software/autoflac
http://www.dvd-guides.com/guides/dvdrip/235-convert-dvd-to-h264-mkv-mp4-using-handbrake