How Much've you Got from Apple Music?

fred_ljfred_lj
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
It seems my music-buying from the ITMS goes in spurts. I've been off it for a while, but just now I got another seven bucks in songs. I guess that's the beauty and riskiness of it. But looking at my purchased music folder, it's scary to think I've downloaded just over half a gigabyte of music from the music store.



Do I have a problem? Are there others with the "hey, it's just $.99 right?" syndrome?
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  • Reply 1 of 37
    shetlineshetline Posts: 4,695member
    I just crossed the one gig point for iTunes purchases yesterday.
  • Reply 2 of 37
    macusersmacusers Posts: 840member
    I just installed Jaguar yesterday and before i even got everything set up i bought 7 songs
  • Reply 3 of 37
    cubedudecubedude Posts: 1,556member
    I've bought 127 megs of music, and none of it was for me. I got other people(my mom and dad ) interested in the iTMS by buying them music, though.
  • Reply 4 of 37
    burningwheelburningwheel Posts: 1,827member
    nada
  • Reply 5 of 37
    magicfingersmagicfingers Posts: 703member
    i have 148 puchased songs on my comp, my kids have 30 purchased songs on their iMac, and I have another 28 in my shopping cart.

    all this and a new 15bg ipod last week. I gave my 10 yr old boy my original 5 gb ipod....he's gonna be the coolest 5th grader at school.
  • Reply 6 of 37
    wrong robotwrong robot Posts: 3,907member
    I'm waiting till I get an iPod, but a friend of mine spent about 200 bucks in the first few days...he didn't even realize how much he had spent.
  • Reply 7 of 37
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    I've bought nothing. I like the idea, but when there is a record I want, I hit up amazon.com's used sellers for the CD. It's usually maybe a dollar or two more than buying from the iTMS. Sure, I have to wait for the CD to come, but once it does come I have the original CD with no DRM restrictions that I can rip myself.



    I just can't bring myself to own restricted music
  • Reply 8 of 37
    pscatespscates Posts: 5,847member
    I've only bought five songs so far:



    "Amsterdam" by Guster

    "Darlington County" by Springsteen

    "Outta-Space" by Billy Preston

    "The Coal Mine Blues" by Marty Stuart

    "Diddley Daddy" by Chris Isaak







    I've given myself a $20-25/month music budget, so I can safely get about 15-20 more songs (or 1-2 complete albums) before the end of August.



    I'll probably get "East Side Story" from Squeeze and a few scattered singles.



    I think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. I'm quite sure I've bought my last store-bought CD. THIS is how it should be...what you want, when you want it.
  • Reply 9 of 37
    buonrottobuonrotto Posts: 6,368member
    I've bought no less than 5 30-track albums on iTMS, all except 1 were $10. My CD-buying days aren't over -- not until the indie labels get on board at least, but there is so much stuff available as single tracks and backcatalog items that weren't worth a whole EP or CD, that I still have plenty of shopping to do.
  • Reply 10 of 37
    cakecake Posts: 1,010member
    So far:

  • Reply 11 of 37
    ibrowseibrowse Posts: 1,749member
    Nothing, until Apple allows a way to use gift certificates and/or an account you can 'charge up' by mail/money orders, I have a thing with credit cards, it's a mutual hatred.
  • Reply 12 of 37
    jeremiah richjeremiah rich Posts: 853member
    Absolutely none. I personally prefer to just buy a cd. I rip my music into 320kbps mp3, and that is what I like. Now, in the future there may be a song or two I will want to buy from the ITMS but at the moment, I cannot think of anything.... That is not to say I don't think it is a great idea. I do think it is a great idea. Just not for me. Heh.
  • Reply 13 of 37
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    159 songs.



    Various totals:

    615 minutes, 587.1 MB of music.

    147.15 dollars spent.



    <93 cents per song. ~25 cents per megabyte.
  • Reply 14 of 37
    matt ftmatt ft Posts: 87member
    Nothing, I'm in the UK
  • Reply 15 of 37
    serranoserrano Posts: 1,806member
    3 Albums, 5 singles.



  • Reply 16 of 37
    bartobarto Posts: 2,246member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by LoCash

    I just can't bring myself to own restricted music



    There are programs which rip iTMS files to AIFF.



    Myself, precisely ZERO gigabytes. Being outside of the US of A.



    Barto
  • Reply 17 of 37
    the generalthe general Posts: 649member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by iBrowse

    Nothing, until Apple allows a way to use gift certificates and/or an account you can 'charge up' by mail/money orders, I have a thing with credit cards, it's a mutual hatred.



    I dont like credit cards either, thats why I use a debit master card. it works like a credit card, but acts like a check or atm card!(insert jingle here) so when you wanna buy some clothes, music, or porn! you dont need to have cash on hand
  • Reply 18 of 37
    snazlordsnazlord Posts: 62member
    i've only bought 2-3 songs. The limiting factor is that you can't stream AAC over a home network (to either TiVo or SLIMP3)
  • Reply 19 of 37
    bradbowerbradbower Posts: 1,068member
    Absolutely nothing.



    BTW, debit cards are nice when you want to have the accessibility of a credit card, without any security or fraud protection whatsoever. Yay!
  • Reply 20 of 37
    cubedudecubedude Posts: 1,556member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by snazlord

    i've only bought 2-3 songs. The limiting factor is that you can't stream AAC over a home network (to either TiVo or SLIMP3)



    You can convert the files to MP3, y'know. Burn it to a CD, and then import the songs back to iTunes as MP3's.
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