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Okay, I just got online. It took a few hours – I guess their servers were getting swamped. Having seen it, my first response is… that’s cool. This is the future. It works perfectly. The streaming AAC audio sounds great. I’ll post some screen shots tomorrow for Windows users, so you can see what you’ll be getting later this year.
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Agree 100%. Apple music service is cool as hell, especially once the servers calmed down. Bought there songs so far, and I'm thinking of buying an entire (physical) CD because I know I like one song (heard on the radio), and the excerpts of the other ones sound good also. That's the whole point, and it's too bad it took so many years and Steve Jobs' legendary persuading skills to get it done.
Admittedly, I don't know enough about the AAC encoding to know if it's "good enough". I'm happy with MP3 at 192 kbpss, but if I'm buying stuff to keep forever, I wonder if the 128 kbps AAC is adequate. (All my MP3s are self-ripped; I admittedly have a couple of P2P-acquired MP3s, but I don't have any expectation that they'll be of a particular quality. But when I'm paying money, I do.)