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Interview with MusicNet Chief
prostoalex writes "Alan McGlade, chief of MusicNet, which sells subscriptions to its digital music catalog, talks about his view of digital music market, expectations and life in general."
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Oh I don't know, I can think of a bunch of things that will add value:
...". Just use your imagination here.
1) What about lyrics distributed along with the song?
2) Videos anybody?
3) Making songs easy to find.
4) Helping you find music you like ("Oh, you like that beatles song?? We also have these three different versions of that song recorded live. Would you like to listen to those too? What about this Stone Temple Pilots version of the same song??" Or maybe, "Our statistical calculations say you like this type of music, you're about to waste 10 downloads at the end of the month. Here are some songs you might want to check out
5) Histories and stories of the songs and the people who made them.
6) Online interviews with artists.
7) a trillion other things... use your imagination.
I think there could be tons of value added. I'd love to use a service like this, as soon as it becomes cheap and truly has alot of content.
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You have some good points, but you're a bit off here:
"Well, I don't think you compete [with p2p], but you do create a service that has its own value.
Err, that's called "competing"..? I guess he assumes the p2p sites will all be shut down by the RIAA at some point."
Actually, I think there is a demand for a much more convenient service than p2p. In fact, I know there is such a demand (because I am that demand); the question, of course, is whether there's enough demand to make it profitable. I can go to emusic (I don't know MusicNet), read their recommendations, search through their catalog, and pick a few albums to download. Then I simply click on one link to download the entire album and save a playlist to replay it later. It's all very high bandwidth. The rate at which I get albums is orders of magnitude faster than with any p2p service, and for me it's certainly worth the very low price.