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TunesGenie Fills Your iPod for Seven Cents a Song

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By: Steve | in: Music, Technology |

TunesGenie

TunesGenie is a secondary market iPod service that will load your iPod for you. The service they offer will not run you afoul of the RIAA or Apple either.

The way their system works is as follows:

* TunesGenie sends a customized shipping kit directly to a customer’s doorstep
* The customer puts their CDs in the box and calls FedEx® for pickup
* After loading the music CDs, TunesGenie returns them along with a handy back-up of MP3s
* The CDs will be cleaned and repaired as needed, free
* At 7 cents per song, it costs less than downloading the music from iTunes™

Now I have an iPod and a while back I tried converting all of my CDs to MP3s for the sole purpose of loading up my 30GB iPod. I got about 20 CDs into the process and stopped. It was simply taking me forever to do it. The other problem I had was my PC did not have enough spare hard drive space to keep 30GB of music on it.

Eventually my iPod index file went bad and I lost all the songs.

TunesGenie is an interesting service and it reminds me of something from a few years back where a certain company would take DVDs you purchased and convert them to iPod format and load them for you. They were sued by the MPAA over the service. I think TunesGenie may be in the clear here because iTunes does have built-in CD ripping.

This service is probably a good buy for older iPod buyers, you know, people who still buy CDs or have a large collection.

[Originally posted on TechVat]


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Posted on November 17, 2007

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One Response to “TunesGenie Fills Your iPod for Seven Cents a Song”

  1. brian on November 21st, 2007 11:54 am

    How can you have a computer in 2007 that doesn’t have a spare 30GB available for MP3s? Most computers now come with at least a 160GB hard drive if not more then that, and even if it doesn’t, you can get a 750GB hard drive nowadays for less then $150. =)


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