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New Online Music Service For Australia

Posted by timothy on from the where-music-flows-clockwise dept.

arb writes "Destra Music is the first online music retailer to open its doors in Australia. Currently their catalogue offers over 100,000 tracks priced from 99c (Australian) and they hope to have half a million tracks available by mid next year. Purchasers will be able to burn the songs to CD and copy them to portable devices. The tracks are available for purchase through online partners, such as JB Hi-Fi and Sanity Online. In what is believed to be a first for online music retailers, vouchers will be available in stores so you will not need a credit card to purchase online." Sounds like competition for Bigpond Music's download service, and also dealing with DRM'd .wma files.

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  1. Yes but what if we don't run Windows.... by miknight · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...or want files in .wma format?

  2. Good idea, but.... by bckrispi · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've always had issues with setting a fixed rate per track. A full movie soundtrack may have 30 tracks on one disk, many of which are brief ( 1 minute) segues. In this case, it would cost you twice what it would do purchase the full disk through retail. OTOH, you could grab some progressive rock concept album that has five 15 minute tracks for five bucks. Albiet, a great deal for the consumer, but perhaps not so for the artist.

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    Xenon, where's my money? -Borno
  3. The fundamental flaw... by doublebackslash · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There is a chink in their armor, the forced windows useage and new generations of file shargin under development.
    Newer file sharing protocols will be fully encrypted (making traffic mnitoring illegal at best),
    Be de-centralized to the point of being pure p2(No big intorduction server to take out, or central company to go after),
    Use dynamic ports and protocols that disguise their packets,
    Use spoofing, so that noone knows who is getting what file exept the sender and the reciver, and the reciever dosn't know where its coming from, and vice versa,
    Spoofing is in a round fassion, with multiple hops, and multiple agents seting up different hops, so the packet round trip is HARD to follow (I know, bandwith is precious, but if you distribute the send across multiple agent chains, this ain't so bad),
    And Searching won't reveal who has the file (more spoofing) keeping share-ers annonymous.

    This is the basis for something that I'm planing right now, long way off, but these are the keys to the next gen P2P network. Once in the wild, there is no way to take it down. =)

    I hope such a system sees the light of day.

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  4. Will these services be the end of lossless music? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Am I the only one who has issues with paying for approximations? If I'm going to burn it to a cd, there's no reason it should be lossily compressed just so I can decompress it and have a lower quality recording than if I had bought the cd. If all of these services offering lossy music catch on, the uncompressed cd you can buy in the store now may become a distant memory. You would think that the RIAA would love this just as the MPAA liked MPEG2 for dvd.

    Folks, the whole point of digitizing music is to prevent errors from creeping in!