iTunes for PC... WOOHOOO!!!

[Hummercash]

Originally posted by: VTEC01EX
zinkpig, thanks for the awesome link! iTunes is now damn near perfect.

i agree.
just want minimize to task bar and the ability to queue up songs in a "on the go" type playlist... right now, i have a seperate playlist made called OnTheGo which i queue up all the songs i want to hear, then i ahve to go and clear the playlist when im done so its ready for the next time i want to create a random playlist like that.


.//chris

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: MontyBurns

Originally posted by: lookin4dlz
The songs cost WAY too much!

The NY Times just ran an article the other day stating that at $0.99 per track, when adjusted for inflation, this music costs 10 times as much as music did in the 50's (generally regarded as the heyday of popular music sales). I think the problem is that too many young people are accustomed to paying these outrageous prices for music and so they don't think anything of paying $0.99 per track. I'll never pay that much, but would pay $0.20 per track.

And they'll never cost $0.20 per track. No credit card company is ever going to process a charge for 20 cents.

Apple is making a killing on their service. You may think it's overpriced, but thousands of people can't get enough of it. Don't expect a big price drop anytime soon.

$.69-$.79 is the sweet spot they need to get to. Honestly though, I've never understood why artists don't just sell their music direct online?

For instance, if I want to buy Rolling Stones music, go to www.rollingstones.com and DL/pay for it there. If I want Avril Levene, I'd go to avrillevene.com and DL/pay for it there, etc. Does that make too much sence or what?

 

[VTEC01EX]

I like that idea, but the artists would then need to basically be corporations to be able to manage themselves. They'd need to hire their own advertisers, get someone to cut CDs/manage internet sales, they'd need a full legal team, etc. You'd have Rolling Stones + RIAA = Rolling Stones, Inc. I'd be happy at 80 cents a track / 7.50 a disc.

 

[Hummercash]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
If I want Avril Levene, I'd go to avrillevene.com and DL/pay for it there, etc.

i want avril too. hell, id even pay for it (i dont know about dl'ing it tho)... oh, you mean her music


.//chris

 

[weepul]

some stuff they need to include in itunes is the option to disable associating file types. i even tried reinstalling and unchecking make ituens my default player, but it still does.

they also need to make it have the option of "always on top"

//krunk (^_^x)

 

[Hummercash]

krunk, check out what zinkpig posted a few posts above... link for always on top


.//chris

 

[justdad]

my son showed me this one it is great and easy to use. it does just about everything I need it to do rips, burns saves names has different formats to play with. its a great program to add to your arsenal.

 

[Squalish2357]

Just about the cost: It costs them maybe $100k tops to set up servers for 20 million downloads... they are making around 3.5 million off those songs.

Next to nationwide brick and mortar, even the most expensive hosting is nothing.

 

[MWink]

Originally posted by: weepul
some stuff they need to include in itunes is the option to disable associating file types. i even tried reinstalling and unchecking make ituens my default player, but it still does.

they also need to make it have the option of "always on top"

//krunk (^_^x)

Edit > preferences > uncheck "use Itunes as the default player for audio files"

 

[batmanuel]

Originally posted by: Squalish2357
Just about the cost: It costs them maybe $100k tops to set up servers for 20 million downloads... they are making around 3.5 million off those songs.

Next to nationwide brick and mortar, even the most expensive hosting is nothing.

Heck, it'll cost you lots more than to $100k to ship that all music to retail outlets across the nation. Plus, if a track doesn't sell on iTunes, it doesn't cost them anything for it to sit on a server. An unsold CD sitting on a store shelf cost just as much to get to the store as one that sells at multi-platnium level. Music on a CD doesn't make any economic sense anymore, for the seller OR the buyer. I think Napster, Rhapsody and iTMS are the only hope for the music industry. I was in my Best Buy this past weekend and noticed that even though the whole store was packed with customers, the music section was a ghost town. I was only there to check out SACD and DVD-A prices (thinking hard about a new DVD player that has support for those formats). I've really cut back on CD purchases lately (although I did just lay out $16 for the new Barenaked Ladies mainly because they put out a special edition with a second disk that had the whole album in DVD-A and Dolby Digital 5.1 - not to mention extra clips and video of an acoustic performance of 11 of the tracks. They ARE all about value).

I'd really like to see some downloadable music in an enhanced resolution, 96kHz or above and 5.1 mixed. Having to upgrade your hardware is a major issue with getting SACD and DVD-A pushed forward in the consumer electronics front, but with digital music you can just download a new version of the software to handle new codecs and DRM mechanisms. Plus, more and more of us are getting broadband, so 50-100MB downloads soon won't be an issue (since that better sounding music is going to be pretty hefty, FLAC size or bigger even if you use some sort of mpeg-4 encoding).