iTunes Music Store Switzerland is online
by jcf. Average Reading Time: less than a minute.
It took a while, but now it’s online: The swiss (and the scandinavian) itunes music stores. The price for a track is CHF 1.50 ( around 1 Euro or 1.2 US$ – quite expensive, but this is Switzerland, where the money comes from).
Also, version 4.8 of iTunes itself is available, and it’s playing videos now.
Now if only the quality of the downloads would be better – allofmp3.com is much more advanced in this regard. (I’ll leave the legality discussions for the moment)
Are still all MP3 files bought on the iTune Music Store only compatible with Apple’s iPods?
On a Mac it seems that in most cases files can be re-encoded to a non-itune MP3 file format.
On PC it looks more tricky, you can only select to convert it to AAC (when you try to do this, you get the warning: ‘song title’ could not be converted because protected files cannot be converted to other formats…
Some people had to burn their purchased songs on an audio cd and rip it back, to re-insert manually all track titles…