Music: iTunes 'on a mission', prices trending up?...
updated 02:15 pm EDT, Thu May 13, 2004
iTunes \'on a mission\'
Music Industry News: Apple is "on a music service in Canada.
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05/13, 03:00pm |
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limited selection
Personally, I am starting to regret my decision to purchase any online music. There's simply nothing like the experience of having the full CD and all the trimmings. Once I have the CD, I can make all the MP3s I want in perpetuity.
With the iTunes Music Store, if I don't burn a copy of my AAC file to CD or DVD, then I can't redownload the song without paying for it again.
Additionally, I am a big fan of electronic/new age music and the Apple Store has almost nothing by Jean-Michel Jarré and Jonn Serrie.
A great place to locate estranged CDs is from Amazon. If they don't have it new, they link to someone who sells it used.
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05/13, 03:12pm |
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prices
i thought prices were supposed to level off oh, about 10 years ago, but they seem to keep going up. and rather than music companies seeing this as a way to diversify and therefore pass some savings back to the consumer, they just want as many live cash streams as possible going full throttle.
well, whatever. i still enjoy the well-made cd, from music to packaging.
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05/13, 03:40pm |
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Welcome to last year!
Geez! PureTracks has been out for at least 6 months, maybe up to 9 or more! About time someone noticed!
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05/13, 03:53pm |
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And again I say...
... Gentlemen, start your P2P software. :D
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05/13, 04:07pm |
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Online Music
I have to disagree about the whole CD thing. CDs are overrated and take up too much room. I find the 1st thing I do when I buy a CD is rip it and then put it away. As for quality I just can tell the difference on the systems I use (good home theater, great car stereo, great computer speakers, and iPod). The only thing that I miss from CDs are the lyrics, which I usually find online and save as an .rtf file. Things like pictures can also be seen on line.
Before any one says, well you're obviously not a audiophile, let me say I love my music and listen to music whenever I have free time. My collection of AAC and mp3 are anally organized and most of them even have beats per minute programmed. I like downloading because of the instant gratification and it's a nice way to fill out a music collection.
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05/13, 04:09pm |
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WHO HOO!!!
I can post comments again!
Back on topic, Apple, for the most part, will remain 99 cents for a while. However, their "Album only" singles irritate me.
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05/13, 04:10pm |
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corrections above
I meant I can't tell the difference
an audiophile
Back to the topic. I've been a very good boy, since the iTunes store came out. If prices start getting out of control, I'll continue downloading music... using acquisition.
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05/13, 04:28pm |
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An ear exam is in order
If you can't tell the difference between iTMS-encoded AAC music and the same music played from a CD, you're half deaf. It's certainly good enough for listening in the car or as background music, but the artefacts are quite obvious when played on a good quality system. Even on the iPod, you can play a music purchased on the Apple Store and the same ripped from CD using Apple Lossless encoding. It's day and night.
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05/13, 04:44pm |
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albums >cds > files
Really, though - when we went from 12" LPs to 12cm CDs, album art went downhill to the point where it really didn't matter anymore, except for the White Album (and the Spinal Tap Black Album) who can read the miniscule print, and what's the point of a Roger Dean painting that's 5" across? And how were they going to fit that life-size zipper from Sticky Fingers in a jewel case (no pun intended). The cover art is still there on iTunes, for what it's worth, but the rest of it is eclipsed by the music and its portability.
I have started backing up my iTunes to an external drive though - if you lose or ruin a CD, you have to go buy it all over again too - at least here I can backup and restore the songs.
By the way - the record companies are likely half of the equation on raising prices. Somone must have done a calculation that shows dollars spent per consumer heading or potentially heading downward - and with the abilty to cherry pick songs from albums, they see the handwriting on the wall and their most creative thing they can think of is to jack the prices (demand decreases => raise prices? how many MBAs were in the room when that decision was made?) The other half of rising prices is the provider. Apple is likely OK and denying increases because iTMS drives iPod sales - but Sony - sheesh - they really think we're going to go back to minidiscs? They didn't sell when there was NO competition. And anyone else without a parallel / linked income model is going to be able to hit that $1 per track price point and stay in it.
I loved LPs for rthe entire package, I gave them up for increased musical content and ease of use and durability. I gave CDs up for larger capacity, ease of use, portability, and metadata. The stacks of CDs in my house is largely ornamental - just keeping it in a manner approximating searchable is a job in itself - I'll take iTunes any day.
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sheesh
5.99 for a song. Thats wonderful.
I have a feeling someday I'll be telling my grandkids the story of the fall of recording industry. Go ahead RIAA, keep on slamming those nails into your coffin!