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iTunes didn't even allow you to add your own album art. To do so you had to be signed in with Apple ID, so Apple could look up the album details on the iTunes s
by rchaud 3y ago
iTunes didn't even allow you to add your own album art. To do so you had to be signed in with Apple ID, so Apple could look up the album details on the iTunes store and set the image that way.
This was in 2008, so the software ecosystem lock-in strategy was already well-established back then.
- lapcat 3y agoThis is utterly false: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnBsIAiZfFc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnBsIAiZfFc You could always edit artwork in iTunes. Indeed, you could import albums from your own CDs and not even use the iTunes Music Store at all.
- rchaud 3y agoThe video you linked is from 2015, almost a decade after the time period I referenced in my comment.
- lapcat 3y ago[flagged]
- generalizations 3y ago> You're seriously doubling down on your ignorance instead of just admitting that you were wrong? From the guidelines: > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. > When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." > Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- kelnos 3y agoPerhaps something to add to the guidelines: "don't try to weaponize the guidelines when someone calls you out for misrepresenting the facts".
- generalizations 3y agoI don't really care one way or the other if iTunes let people set custom album covers back in the day. That first comment by OP just stuck out like a sore thumb. The guidelines are there because they make HN nicer to participate in.
- lazyasciiart 3y agoAnd "before using the word 'you', go back and check the usernames of each comment you are reacting to"
- imwillofficial 3y agoI was adding my own album art to ripped CDs since well before 2008.