The music downloads allow a way around the CD price fixing that led to the RIAA's problem. Once the online services surpass the RIAA, the RIAA will really be in an Adapt or Perish situation.
Except for the fact that all the songs on the services are licensed from the RIAA, and they are all paying fees to the RIAA. Apple gives half the money they make to RIAA members.
Finally some one else gets it. If a band doesn't have enough material to put out a quality CD and they release a CD anyway instead of an EP or single, then they're simply not talented enough to deserve my money. I'm not a big beatles fan but I will always love them for coming up with the concept of an album full of good songs. That's they way it should be.
I bought a CD single last week. It was 3.99. It contained a remix of the song, the album version of the song. A remix of another song on the album. And a previously unreleased cover song. So, I get 4 songs for $4. Sounds like the iTMS.:)
Well let's just say that OutKasts new CD sold 700,000 copies in it's first week. there are about 40 songs on it. So that one CD in one week sold more songs than have been downloaded since June.
If I don't like every song on an album I don't buy it. I tend to think of albums as continuous works and not collections of songs. Sure there are songs that i like less than others, but they are there for a reason and I feel the album as a whole looses something without them. Quality artists put out quality albums. If they don't have enough material for an album they put out a single or an EP. Now I'm not going to say there aren't people who don't write 2 or 3 songs and the rest filler, but if that's the case I'm never going to buy their work anyway.
I would guess they have a shelf life of 3 or 4 years, but I have had a few go bad in as little as 1 year with very little use. If I use them alot I find that I'm lucky to get 6 months out of them.
You have CD-R's that last 20 years? tell me where to find these, mine start to go downhill after about 12 months. And they aren't nearly as scratch resistant.
WMA dies when MS decides it wants you to upgrade.
Pure FUD. Microsoft hasn't ever released anything that couldn't read in the old formats and convert them to the new. WMA and AAC have the same kind of DRM options, it's really a toss up between them. The difference is WMA is supported by more players.
Not necessairly. Apple probably signed the same sort of deals with the labels that most record stores sign. They are required to give "shelf space" to certain artists, and advertise certain releases. Also, a sizeable chunk of money goes back to the RIAA and the RIAA can probably end the contract if they see fit.
MTV2 does play alot of of indie music. So do some of the other channels they own (VH1 Classic, MTV Rock, MTV Hip Hop). I forsee them having the exact same songs as everyone else.
For MTV to make their service acceptable to the record companies, it will have to have ham-handed, crippling DRM.
Or the same DRM that iTMS has. It seems to me that none of the online record stores have DRM much different then apple's. The only difference is on streaming music which iTMS doesn't provide. Other than that it's just a difference between DRM'd WMA versus DRM'd AAC. And WMA is supported by more portable players.
There was just an article in Rolling Stone about how it's never been better to be a brick and mortar independent record store. They have things online stores sometimes don't. Their prices are good. They offers services you can't get at places like Amazon.com. They usually have used CD's, plus new and used vinyl. All my local indie record shops are always busy.
It may be cheap, but it's about the same cost to me to buy an album in a store, where I get much more for my money. For me to be interested in paying to download you need to give me a substantial discount over the store.
MP3 and Ogg the most popular formats? You're either smoking crack or living in a dream world. I'll give you MP3 as the most popular format by far. But I would make a guess that the second most popular format is WMA and the third AAC. WMA is the codec that windows media player rips things to by default, how many people out there are ripping like that? Many more than use OGG. Plus most ever portable player supports WMA and MP3 and many convert everything to WMA first.
Corn is a grass, and is classified along with the other grasses: oats, wheat, barley, etc. I guess you could call the husk a fruit but since we only eat the seeds I wouldn't.
I do believe that you are wrong. But if you look closely on Altria's website, you will find that they are actually Phillip Morris. If I remember correctly they also own Miller Beer.
For us to compete at what? To have a desktop that's just as easy to use as Windows? I'm sorry, smart software makes stupid users. I prefer to use stupid software that doesn't get in my way.
That's the attitude that will always make linux lag behind windows on the desktop. Joe sixpack wants smart software, and right now windows and os x are really his only options.
Perhaps it's because Bush hasn't done anything that needs such investigations. At least nothing that's come to light yet.
What about Dick Cheney and Enron? What about the inquiry into 9/11? There's alot of stuff that could be investigated, but there are no independent counsels anymore... so Bush, Cheney, etc get investigated by Ashcroft... I bet he tries real hard to dig up dirt.
I actually like the way it looks myself, but that's purely subjective i guess. I also found the SlimX confusing at first, but kick ass once I got the hang of the remote.
Of course none of the MP3 players fit my needs completly. the two best right now are the rio karma and the iHP. If the nomad zen would add flac and or ogg support then I'd really have what I want.
I have the slimX as well and love it. I'm curious why you would choose an iPod over the iHP-120? The iHP-120 is cheaper, and has quite a few features the iPod lacks. The only feature I see the iPod having over the iHP-120 is the ability to play AAC and songs from iTMS. AAC could easily be added to the iHP via firmware and there are plenty of other music stores.
But did they smoke weed because the were unreliable and lazy, or did the weed make them that way? I have a feeling they were just lazy people to begin with.
That's because part II is next week... or did you miss that blurb?
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Except it's not free... other countries have developed free higher quality radio formats, it's just here in the US we're stuck with FM. Even though the quality isn't great the whole free factor is hard to beat.
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The music downloads allow a way around the CD price fixing that led to the RIAA's problem. Once the online services surpass the RIAA, the RIAA will really be in an Adapt or Perish situation.
Except for the fact that all the songs on the services are licensed from the RIAA, and they are all paying fees to the RIAA. Apple gives half the money they make to RIAA members.
But who's to say it won't sell 5x as many copies... and their distribution cost is less... meaning the profit margin is higher.
Finally some one else gets it. If a band doesn't have enough material to put out a quality CD and they release a CD anyway instead of an EP or single, then they're simply not talented enough to deserve my money. I'm not a big beatles fan but I will always love them for coming up with the concept of an album full of good songs. That's they way it should be.
I bought a CD single last week. It was 3.99. It contained a remix of the song, the album version of the song. A remix of another song on the album. And a previously unreleased cover song. So, I get 4 songs for $4. Sounds like the iTMS. :)
Well let's just say that OutKasts new CD sold 700,000 copies in it's first week. there are about 40 songs on it. So that one CD in one week sold more songs than have been downloaded since June.
If I don't like every song on an album I don't buy it. I tend to think of albums as continuous works and not collections of songs. Sure there are songs that i like less than others, but they are there for a reason and I feel the album as a whole looses something without them. Quality artists put out quality albums. If they don't have enough material for an album they put out a single or an EP. Now I'm not going to say there aren't people who don't write 2 or 3 songs and the rest filler, but if that's the case I'm never going to buy their work anyway.
I would guess they have a shelf life of 3 or 4 years, but I have had a few go bad in as little as 1 year with very little use. If I use them alot I find that I'm lucky to get 6 months out of them.
You have CD-R's that last 20 years? tell me where to find these, mine start to go downhill after about 12 months. And they aren't nearly as scratch resistant.
WMA dies when MS decides it wants you to upgrade.
Pure FUD. Microsoft hasn't ever released anything that couldn't read in the old formats and convert them to the new. WMA and AAC have the same kind of DRM options, it's really a toss up between them. The difference is WMA is supported by more players.
Not necessairly. Apple probably signed the same sort of deals with the labels that most record stores sign. They are required to give "shelf space" to certain artists, and advertise certain releases. Also, a sizeable chunk of money goes back to the RIAA and the RIAA can probably end the contract if they see fit.
MTV2 does play alot of of indie music. So do some of the other channels they own (VH1 Classic, MTV Rock, MTV Hip Hop). I forsee them having the exact same songs as everyone else.
For MTV to make their service acceptable to the record companies, it will have to have ham-handed, crippling DRM.
Or the same DRM that iTMS has. It seems to me that none of the online record stores have DRM much different then apple's. The only difference is on streaming music which iTMS doesn't provide. Other than that it's just a difference between DRM'd WMA versus DRM'd AAC. And WMA is supported by more portable players.
There was just an article in Rolling Stone about how it's never been better to be a brick and mortar independent record store. They have things online stores sometimes don't. Their prices are good. They offers services you can't get at places like Amazon.com. They usually have used CD's, plus new and used vinyl. All my local indie record shops are always busy.
It may be cheap, but it's about the same cost to me to buy an album in a store, where I get much more for my money. For me to be interested in paying to download you need to give me a substantial discount over the store.
Mac users aren't going to use anything but iTMS. It makes sense just to concede them and focus on windows.
MP3 and Ogg the most popular formats? You're either smoking crack or living in a dream world. I'll give you MP3 as the most popular format by far. But I would make a guess that the second most popular format is WMA and the third AAC. WMA is the codec that windows media player rips things to by default, how many people out there are ripping like that? Many more than use OGG. Plus most ever portable player supports WMA and MP3 and many convert everything to WMA first.
Corn is a grass, and is classified along with the other grasses: oats, wheat, barley, etc. I guess you could call the husk a fruit but since we only eat the seeds I wouldn't.
I do believe that you are wrong. But if you look closely on Altria's website, you will find that they are actually Phillip Morris. If I remember correctly they also own Miller Beer.
For us to compete at what? To have a desktop that's just as easy to use as Windows? I'm sorry, smart software makes stupid users. I prefer to use stupid software that doesn't get in my way.
That's the attitude that will always make linux lag behind windows on the desktop. Joe sixpack wants smart software, and right now windows and os x are really his only options.
Perhaps it's because Bush hasn't done anything that needs such investigations. At least nothing that's come to light yet.
What about Dick Cheney and Enron? What about the inquiry into 9/11? There's alot of stuff that could be investigated, but there are no independent counsels anymore... so Bush, Cheney, etc get investigated by Ashcroft... I bet he tries real hard to dig up dirt.
I actually like the way it looks myself, but that's purely subjective i guess. I also found the SlimX confusing at first, but kick ass once I got the hang of the remote.
Of course none of the MP3 players fit my needs completly. the two best right now are the rio karma and the iHP. If the nomad zen would add flac and or ogg support then I'd really have what I want.
I have the slimX as well and love it. I'm curious why you would choose an iPod over the iHP-120? The iHP-120 is cheaper, and has quite a few features the iPod lacks. The only feature I see the iPod having over the iHP-120 is the ability to play AAC and songs from iTMS. AAC could easily be added to the iHP via firmware and there are plenty of other music stores.
But did they smoke weed because the were unreliable and lazy, or did the weed make them that way? I have a feeling they were just lazy people to begin with.
Where do you think all of our viruses came from? Most every one of our communicable diseases can be traced back to a virus that affects animals.
That's because part II is next week... or did you miss that blurb?
Except it's not free... other countries have developed free higher quality radio formats, it's just here in the US we're stuck with FM. Even though the quality isn't great the whole free factor is hard to beat.