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Chinese pop in iTMS... somewhat disappointing
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According to this MacNN article. Universal and Apple have added Hong Kong pop songs into iTMS.
I did a search on iTMS (using keywords "Kelly Chen", "Jacky Cheung", "Alan Tam" and "Hacken Lee"), and they all ends up with only one album each (except for Kelly Chen , which has two albums).
All of those albums are pretty old, at least 4-5 years old. I think Alan Tam one might be even close to 10 years old! Very disappointing that Apple and Universal put quite old Canto-pop album into iTMS: it completely de-value the use of iTMS, and I think it can only encourage more people to swap latest Canto-pop songs illegally in the net. What is Apple thinking??? 
Too make the matter worse, if you look at the album art for the "only" Jacky Cheung album in iTMS, it is actually the album cover for Miriam Yeung... can't they tell the difference between a male and female artist?
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Ask not what iTMS can do for you, ask what you can do to make iTMS better!
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I love it. Thanks, Apple.
Hey, bro.. latest Canto-pop songs suck so bad.
You rather want to listen to Twins, Fiona Sit, or Juno?
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I never heard of those artists from China. Looks like Real Rhapsody doesn't offer Hong Kong pop music.
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y'all better learn chinese!
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Originally posted by kikkoman:
y'all better learn chinese!
Ni na? Nide Putonghua hao bu hao?
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Originally posted by kikkoman:
y'all better learn chinese!
Nah, I'll pass. Thx.
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Chinese pop... very disappointing
Fixed™. 
y'all better learn chinese!
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Originally posted by kikkoman:
y'all better learn chinese!
我已经花了两年半学汉语,我已经学会了一半儿,我就问你一下,应该去学汉语的是不是你?哼?
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If it makes you feel any better there are enormous gaps in Apple's offering of Christian rock. I don't think they've updated it in like... forever... every tuseday I go onto the "inspirational" page and find... nothing 
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Originally posted by Oisn:
我已经花了两年半学汉语,我已经学会了一半儿,我就问你一下,应该去学汉语的是不是你?哼?
Heh.
BTW, what do you mean by "I already learned half"?
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Why can't I paste Chinese characters in Safari anymore?
???????????, ????????,
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Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
Heh.
BTW, what do you mean by "I already learned half"?
Oh my god, you know the Chinese character for "Humph".
What is it in Pinyin?
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I went to school with Kelly Chen (she had a different first name back then).
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Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
I went to school with Kelly Chen (she had a different first name back then).
If that's the case, would you able to tell me what age would Kelly Chen be now? Which country did she do her high school?
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I think it's a start, it will only grows more titles eventually if it becomes popular.
But i am disappointed that the albums and songs characters were displayed in english spellings instead of the native chinese characters.
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Originally posted by moonmonkey:
Oh my god, you know the Chinese character for "Humph".
What is it in Pinyin?
Heng1, or just hng. Quite logically
Eug: I mean exactly that - that I've learned half. I've gotten to the point where I'm conversant and can use it, now I just need to get really good and be able to work on more advanced material/lead more advanced conversations.
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Originally posted by moonmonkey:
Why can't I paste Chinese characters in Safari anymore?
???????????, ????????,
????????????????????????
Maybe you've got it set to the wrong encoding? IIRC, the character-to-HTML-code conversion only happens if the encoding is right (ie. set to "automatic"). I think.
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没有点对__的汉_。这是_人使用 _言。_国是对_是方式舍去。美国将 管它很快和将安装一个快餐政权。
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Originally posted by macintologist:
没œ‰‚对__š„‰_€‚™˜—_人使” _€€‚_›˜对_˜–�ˆ�Ž€‚Ž›† Ž管ƒˆ快’Œ†‰…€个快�”�ƒ€ ‚
I can only read that in any way in UTF-8, and I can only see parts of it then. What are you trying to say? I get "There's nothing right/correct... 's Chinese... This is... people use... language... National affairs towards or country is right... is a method of rejection... America will [soon]... manage [or maybe "doesn't matter"] it will quickly/soon set up a fastfood rgime". Can you connect the missing dots?
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I said there's no point in learning Chinese because it's gonna die out and be replaced with the language of the American fast food regime being imposed on China. 
Yea, random, but whatever.
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Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
I went to school with Kelly Chen (she had a different first name back then).
Well.. 2 of her albums are among the "Today's Top Album" on iTMS - World.
I grabbed the Jay Chou's album tho.
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Originally posted by Kenneth:
I grabbed the Jay Chou's album tho.
Jay Jo's done some fairly good stuff, but he's also done some quite bad stuff...
I like 以父之名 (In the Name of the Father - the one with the opera and sort of Italian-style stuff), and 晴天 (Bright Day? Spring Day? Something like that perhaps) gets in my head from time to time and is very hard to chase out again...
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