i'm not sure the profit is in selling the music, but selling the ipods. apple has the biggest slice of the MP3 market right now, and the itunes store seems to be more for sellign the ipod then the music.
on a side note, i think most of the people downloading songs for free do so not because they are cheap, but because they can't afford $.99 a song. i'm a poor college student myself, and i know $.99 may sound cheap, but by the time you download an entire album, it's abotu the same price as if u drove to the mall and bought it. "free" music is very frustratign and tiem consuming. serching, dealing with curupt or fake files, songs tagged wrong, low quality ect. with i2 hub things are better, but relitivly few people have acsess to i2 hub, due to the fact it takes advangate of a network solely for universitys and acedemic institutions.
so whats my point? $.05 is an unpractical amoutn to chrage becuase it would be unprofitable, but anything over about.10 or.25 would yeild the same results as we are currently seeing, with maybe slight to moderate increses in sales, however i don't think piriting woudl go down any. why not just sell ipods with a credit for X number of songs...
there really is no sulution to this problem. i'm not sure why music has to cost so much in the first place, it is an intergral part of all cultures. you can go to a library and read any book, mag, or paper for free, even take it home for as long as you want most of the time, but you have to pay to listen to music, unless u count radio, littered with ads, and with a few songs played over and over again. i guess the artists need to make a living, but it's the lables that get rich. dosent seem to make much sence.
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that thing is REALLY cool.... to look at.... i've seen bits and pecies of similar systems and even a single cab (mostly gutted) at my old job (scrapping the things as well as other anchent technology), but it's kinda impressive to see a complete system like that. now, with that being said, who on earth would want that? i know a lot of people who collect old tech, but man, that takes a lot of room.... and i can't think of how it would be practical for anyone.... a corp that needs 10,000 lines can afford new tech that dosent fill a building.... and smaller corps certently wouldent want anything like that....who do you think would buy this.... monster?
i always thought winamp was the worst as far as shuffling. it seemed to always play the same 15 songs out of a list of 3000. i always took it was crappy shuffling. anyway, there is a skip foward button, and i tend to use it a lot when i listen to shuffled music.
they wanna kill the 3.5 floppy? GREAT! it's a waste of space anyway.... i've used it i think 1nce in the last 6 months because i needed to make a boot disk for my laptop because it dosent support booting from the cd-rom...
i used it a lot more pefore i had a burner... but now that i have a burner... i think a flopy is the most useless thing in the world....
cd-rs are cheap... pretty mutch as cheap as floppys... but in my oppionion more reliable... and a HELL of a lot bigger... i remeber before i owned a cd-burnr... if i wanted to store a large program... back up my mpes... anything like that... it was imposible... there is software that i was told let u divide big files over muilitple disks... but it never worked for me... i hate floppys.. i once needed to copy a driver for my network card.... it was like 2.2mb, and i couldent downlaod it directly to that computer, or send it though my home network because... well... figure it out.... and i couldent get it to fir ona disk...lol... so i ended up haveing someone burn it onto a cd for me (along with some other shit;) )
i'm so glad i have my burner... i dunno how i lived withought it... if software can be develipted to making burning a cd as easy as it is to write to a disk.. then we would be all set;)... it's not hard... but to have to open up another program... u know... plus ppl say it takes a long time to burn... even on fast drives... but think about how mutch data ur putting on there... how long would it take you to write to 451 floppys?
but i suppose most new computers are sold with cd-rw drives... anyway...
why would anyone complain about the death of a floppy... who uses them anymore? they are irrilible.... small... and sensitive to data loss... (ever stick a disk in ur pocket with ur hw on it, plannign to prin it out in the lab b4 class.... to find out that the rubbing of the fabric agenst the disk cased data lost and curruption?
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i'm not sure the profit is in selling the music, but selling the ipods. apple has the biggest slice of the MP3 market right now, and the itunes store seems to be more for sellign the ipod then the music. on a side note, i think most of the people downloading songs for free do so not because they are cheap, but because they can't afford $.99 a song. i'm a poor college student myself, and i know $.99 may sound cheap, but by the time you download an entire album, it's abotu the same price as if u drove to the mall and bought it. "free" music is very frustratign and tiem consuming. serching, dealing with curupt or fake files, songs tagged wrong, low quality ect. with i2 hub things are better, but relitivly few people have acsess to i2 hub, due to the fact it takes advangate of a network solely for universitys and acedemic institutions. so whats my point? $.05 is an unpractical amoutn to chrage becuase it would be unprofitable, but anything over about .10 or .25 would yeild the same results as we are currently seeing, with maybe slight to moderate increses in sales, however i don't think piriting woudl go down any. why not just sell ipods with a credit for X number of songs...
there really is no sulution to this problem. i'm not sure why music has to cost so much in the first place, it is an intergral part of all cultures. you can go to a library and read any book, mag, or paper for free, even take it home for as long as you want most of the time, but you have to pay to listen to music, unless u count radio, littered with ads, and with a few songs played over and over again. i guess the artists need to make a living, but it's the lables that get rich. dosent seem to make much sence.
that thing is REALLY cool.... to look at.... i've seen bits and pecies of similar systems and even a single cab (mostly gutted) at my old job (scrapping the things as well as other anchent technology), but it's kinda impressive to see a complete system like that. now, with that being said, who on earth would want that? i know a lot of people who collect old tech, but man, that takes a lot of room.... and i can't think of how it would be practical for anyone.... a corp that needs 10,000 lines can afford new tech that dosent fill a building.... and smaller corps certently wouldent want anything like that....who do you think would buy this.... monster?
i always thought winamp was the worst as far as shuffling. it seemed to always play the same 15 songs out of a list of 3000. i always took it was crappy shuffling. anyway, there is a skip foward button, and i tend to use it a lot when i listen to shuffled music.
they wanna kill the 3.5 floppy? GREAT! it's a waste of space anyway.... i've used it i think 1nce in the last 6 months because i needed to make a boot disk for my laptop because it dosent support booting from the cd-rom... i used it a lot more pefore i had a burner... but now that i have a burner... i think a flopy is the most useless thing in the world.... cd-rs are cheap... pretty mutch as cheap as floppys... but in my oppionion more reliable... and a HELL of a lot bigger... i remeber before i owned a cd-burnr... if i wanted to store a large program... back up my mpes... anything like that... it was imposible... there is software that i was told let u divide big files over muilitple disks... but it never worked for me... i hate floppys.. i once needed to copy a driver for my network card.... it was like 2.2mb, and i couldent downlaod it directly to that computer, or send it though my home network because... well... figure it out.... and i couldent get it to fir ona disk...lol... so i ended up haveing someone burn it onto a cd for me (along with some other shit ;) )
i'm so glad i have my burner... i dunno how i lived withought it... if software can be develipted to making burning a cd as easy as it is to write to a disk.. then we would be all set ;)... it's not hard... but to have to open up another program... u know... plus ppl say it takes a long time to burn... even on fast drives... but think about how mutch data ur putting on there... how long would it take you to write to 451 floppys?
but i suppose most new computers are sold with cd-rw drives... anyway...
why would anyone complain about the death of a floppy... who uses them anymore? they are irrilible.... small... and sensitive to data loss... (ever stick a disk in ur pocket with ur hw on it, plannign to prin it out in the lab b4 class.... to find out that the rubbing of the fabric agenst the disk cased data lost and curruption?