Evening tech news: The iTunes Music Store (ITMS) may to undercut the open-source competition, but still unable to best a $35.7 million bid from German Linux distributor SuSE and IBM, a big Linux backer.
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I really don't like any of those filler songs so they can do away with them and I won't care. The issue is that while some people like yourself likes those songs, others do not and don't want to be charged for stuff we won't listen to.
If they still want to make "filler" songs then let them. If you post them all on the net then you can let people such as yourself purchase these songs without annoying others.
I completely disagree with the logic. Just think of Itunes as an album with an infinate length. Records went from Long Play (LP) to ELP (Extra Long Play). You didn't see artist complain. You did see them complian when it wasn't possible to fit 1 ELP on 1 CD. (Tapes could be variable in length but you still had wait to flip them.) Now the album can be as long as the artist wants. No need to flip the record or tape or put in the second CD. I think this is perfect! (Aside from the d@mn lossy compression).
Also, everyone should read the usatoday article about Microsoft's contract negotiations with Munich. We all knew that is the way it worked. Now there is documenation to prove it. Now we just have to convince the world that Apple is as flexible as Open-Source.
Sorry, but I fail to see your logic. According to your logic, the album concept never would have taken off in the first place. Remember when 45s were popular. How did album sales ever take off if people could just go out and buy the songs on the radio?
There is still a market for album sales - it may be a little smaller, but it is fair now. Don't forget there are those (like me) that prefer uncompressed audio. That cannot be purchased at the iTMS.
"What's striking about the Munich deal is the use of Linux on the desktop," says Paul DeGroot, tech industry analyst at research firm Directions on Microsoft. "It's a threat to Microsoft's real source of strength, the desktop, where it has no competition and is used to winning all sorts of battles."
Has this guy EVER heard of Apple, or Macintosh, or Mac OS X?
NO COMPETITION?
Microsoft won the battle of the desktop some years ago. Linux notwithstanding, Mac OS hasn't been serious competition to Windows for some time. That's where that came from, I think.
I tend to buy whole albums on iTMS, at least for artists where I know the whole album will be good. When I buy the album I always listen to it straight through first song to last. I do this at least once. Bands like DMB really are best to listen to that way, especially live albums. This format really forces the artists to stop putting filler on the album, this will hopefully increase the quality of stuff released.
I think they are referring to MS as having "no competition" in the OFFICE/ENTERPRISE "desktop" space, and for the most part they are right -- while Mac OS X works fine with MS Office, it doesn't ship with Solitaire or Minesweeper, the other two most-used PC apps. :)
Over the next 2-3 years, the coming together of all the elements -- Panther, G5 -- will change a lot of minds (or at least turn some heads).
This idea that iTunes will do away with albums is just stupid. Artists seek to produce a quantifiable body of work that represents a period of time in their creativity or a concept that is broader than one song. Albums have existed since the dawn of recorded music, and the availability of single songs has no relationship to the viability of them. I do pity the folks who spend the same amount for a low resolution iTunes download album as they would for an uncompressed CD. Throughout the history of recorded music, there has been a constant push to increase the quality of recordings. They worked at these improvements across the spectrum. Vinyl records were improved several times through things like half-speed mastering and direct metal mastering (recording direct to master disk, not using tape). Compressed audio is a reduction of quality for most people. If it wasn't, then why is the Super Audio CD being developed?
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agreed. music will return to tin pan alley where songwriters are hired to do nothing but turn out mindless radio hits. the "artist" and concept album will fade into oblivion. damn shame too cause some of my favorite songs are what those people who want nothing but radio hits call "fillers". say goodbye to the artist and hello to the mtv flavor of the week.