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Seems as if sweet beats aren’t the only thing Stanford students are downloading off of iTunes lately. Our brethren over on the west coast have just launched a program that allows students, faculty, and alumni to download academic and nonacademic materials from Stanford for free off of iTunes...
...Podcasting is very popular right now,” says Nettifee. “FAS has been putting multimedia on the web for eight years now and quite a few course materials are available for download.” Nettifee cites Harvard@Home (athome.harvard.edu) as one such site. “There are lectures, videos, and it’s all free and available to anyone with a computer,” Nettifee says. “But I think an extension to podcasting...
...Each song costs $2.50 to purchase, high compared to the 99 cents online music stores charge. But the $2.50 doesn't just pay for the track on your phone: when you purchase a track, you also get the opportunity to download it over the Web to your computer, in the form of a protected Windows Media Audio file that you can listen to with Windows Media Player. You can load the song on compatible portable players from the likes of Dell, Creative, Samsung and iRiver. (No iPods, though...
...might have trouble finding a song you want to download, however. At the moment, Sprint says it has 250,000 songs for sale. I did some random searching, and had a hard time pinpointing what, exactly, this 250,000 consisted of. Searches for Dire Straits, Jamiroquai or the Decemberists turned up nothing; searches for Rolling Stones and Spoon gave me one song each (actually, a Dr. Dre remix of a Stones song and a Spoon track from a TV show compilation). I did find more songs when I typed in 10,000 Maniacs, Steely Dan, Eminem and Wilco...
...With time, the library of available songs will grow, but there are other concerns. I could not use a downloaded track as a ringtone on the A940, even after paying about the same amount. Still worse: although Sprint says you don't have to have a data plan to buy music, the company will bill you extra for the data connection you used during downloads. At 2 cents per kilobyte, the average 1-megabyte song download could suddenly set you back an extra...