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Post by TRO Admin on Apr 24, 2012 12:36:48 GMT -7
For those of you who have "liked" our facebook page... please go there and vote in a poll I've posted asking about the interest in having the TR music catalog on Itunes. Of course I expect you all to vote "Yes!" If you don't already have a facebook account or haven't liked our page, now is the perfect time to do so. www.facebook.com/pages/Teddy-Ruxpin-Online/121308884573539I will be forwarding the poll results to the powers that be, in hopes of showing them how successful an Itunes library would be for Teddy.
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Post by retrobear on Apr 25, 2012 19:47:03 GMT -7
I'll vote, but I also wish they would have another option besides Itunes, which is absolutely the DEVIL when you are using a screen reader, unless they've fixed it now.
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Post by TRO Admin on Apr 25, 2012 20:00:28 GMT -7
Thanks for voting.
Itunes seems to be code-word for "Online MP3 sales." so that's the main reason I used it. Also - any music publisher would want to sell there as they're #1. It's a shame they are hard to use for the visually impaired, especially since they're selling music! You should contact them. They're very customer oriented and may take a look at it if you did.
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Post by retrobear on Apr 25, 2012 21:28:48 GMT -7
I tried to contact them a few years ago and they wouldn't even talk to me because I don't have an Ipod. They may be better now, though, because Jaws has made improvements. I'm not putting that cr*p on my computer unless they put Teddy Ruxpin songs on there.
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Post by kaylathehedgehog on Apr 26, 2012 8:55:11 GMT -7
Voted for. I'd be happier if they came out on Napster or Amazon, though.
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Post by retrobear on Apr 26, 2012 11:39:08 GMT -7
How about a web site where you don't have to download an app for your computer to play or download it? Do they have anything like that that is legal?
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Post by TRO Admin on Apr 26, 2012 18:00:06 GMT -7
the cleanest legal Mp3 retailer I've found is emusic.com. They're also 20 cents or so cheaper on average per song vs. Itunes. You can download a Mp3 with no restrictions and listen to it on whatever media player you like, and no program or app is required. The two drawbacks are - 1) they're a subscription service, which means you've got to pay them at least $11.99 to download any songs and 2) they don't have agreements with some of the smaller labels. I am a subscriber though because as a music fanatic, I can always find $12 bucks a month worth of music I want, especially when that same music would cost around $20 on Itunes or at a traditional retailer.
Itunes is my personal favorite. The program is a great way to manage music as well as play it. Playlists are much easier to manage as well vs. any other program I've seen. I've never tried Napster though.
I doubt Itunes would be the only supplier if Teddy's music catalog came to the web. Itunes has a few exclusive contracts but I don't think Teddy's would be one. The music would likely go to almost all of the mainstream Mp3 retailers. I'm hopeful this will happen.
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Post by kaylathehedgehog on Apr 27, 2012 6:16:50 GMT -7
I would hope not. I'd really rather not have to go out and buy and Ipod to get my Teddy music fix. Those things are expensive, even the nano versions!
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Post by TRO Admin on Apr 27, 2012 11:24:48 GMT -7
Don't need an Ipod to download music from Itunes. you can convert their files easily to Mp3 and play them on a computer, burn to a disc, put them on a different hardware media player, etc.
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Post by retrobear on Apr 27, 2012 12:17:40 GMT -7
Will Wavepad Sound editor do it?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2012 12:28:34 GMT -7
The music would likely go to almost all of the mainstream Mp3 retailers. I'm hopeful this will happen. I'm hopeful, too! If not, I outright won't be able to buy it - I use Linux, and companies like Apple don't want my business, whilst ones like Amazon do.
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Post by kaylathehedgehog on Apr 27, 2012 20:23:45 GMT -7
Don't need an Ipod to download music from Itunes. you can convert their files easily to Mp3 and play them on a computer, burn to a disc, put them on a different hardware media player, etc. Really? I'd heard that was some sort of DRM thing that kept people from converting them.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2012 21:54:21 GMT -7
Really? I'd heard that was some sort of DRM thing that kept people from converting them. Mercifully, they dropped the DRM a few years ago. Now they're sold as unrestricted AAC files, instead of restricted AAC files (meaning that they're no longer a real problem if you don't have access to a Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows system or Virtual Machine). It really is trivial to convert them using something like Audacity (available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows), or, if you're using a Macintosh and would like to grab directly from the audio stream with as little lossiness as possible and without worrying about noises from other programs getting in the way, Audio Hijack Pro.
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Post by kaylathehedgehog on Apr 28, 2012 7:10:27 GMT -7
Well, cool. I didn't know that.
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Post by TRO Admin on Apr 28, 2012 11:46:19 GMT -7
You can also choose to burn tracks to CD or DVD in Mp3 format, and Itunes does the converting for you. Then just pop the disc back in and transfer to whatever medium you prefer to listen to.
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