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The Perfect Online Music Store?

Posted by Cliff on from the better-than-iTunes-and-Walmart-combined dept.

brace asks: "With the proliferation of online music sales, more and more companies are jumping onto the bandwagon and trying to sell you downloadable music. Some of them do a good job, some of them are just bad at it. The question I have for Slashdot readers is essentially 'What would the perfect online music store offer you?' Should it have OGG and FLAC tracks, as well as MP3? Would you rather pay per-song or per-month? Would you want the option to purchase hard-copy as well (like the actual album, or even band merchandise)? Should the song samples be 30 second downloads or full-song streams fed on-demand? Is a radio station important for an online music store?" "Personally, I'd like to see a store that has a 24/7 internet radio station, on-demand streaming, $0.99 downloads (and $9.99 album downloads), links to purchase actual albums or merchandise, and with MP3, OGG, and FLAC support. I'd also like to see the artists being paid more than 10%..."

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  1. Re:How about... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hope you aren't pointing at your crotch.

  2. Perfect music store by vivek7006 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Everytime you buy a song, your size will increase by 20%

  3. perfect? that's easy! by ColMustard · · Score: 2, Funny

    1. Everything is free.
    2. Everything encoded in a new revolutionary format which features greater than CD quality, and all files magically don't take any space to store or time to download.
    3. Everything is without DRM.
    4. Despite it being a new format, it automatically plays on every device in existance anyway.
    5. Every piece of music ever composed is available and audiobooks of every book written.
    6. Revolutionary new searching technology brings you right to what you're looking for the first time every time whether you knew you were looking for it or not.
    7. The store brings about world peace.

    Duh!

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    Moof.
  4. The mind reels by dynayellow · · Score: 4, Funny

    Asking Slashdot what the perfect store to buy music should be like. It's like asking the American Cancer Institute which cigarette has the best flavor.

  5. Re:AllOfMP3 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I actually talk about my thoughts on the legality of all of this on my blog. Do a Yahoo search, I'm near the top

    Or I could just click the link that's under your username...