Bad iTunes Vibes
Hmm.... with SilverStr's iTunes problems and finding this post from a self-described ".Net Guy" disliking it for it's lack of WMA support, I'm sensing a bad iTunes vibe today. Works For Me&tm; though. I just wish it supported playing .ogg out of the box and ripping to .ogg out of the box. Course, as I've said elsewhere, when it's a loss leader to get people to buy iPods, I doubt it'd going to start supporting competitive formats and players.
Hmmm... his comment:
"Okay, I'll use iTunes if someone will re-rip ... our 44 gigabytes worth of WMAs, ... replace our portable devices that don't play AAC, ... replace our Audiotron which doesn't play AAC."
is what frosts me. It's not like Apple misrepresented what iTunes is (like you say, a loss-leader for iPods). If you're dead set on WMA, um... go buy a WMA device.
You know?
(I too want Ogg, if only to see a proliferation of free formats to counter WMA)