How Much've you Got from Apple Music?

fred_lj · August 5, 2003 7:55PM

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?

shetline · August 5, 2003 7:58PM

I just crossed the one gig point for iTunes purchases yesterday.

macusers · August 5, 2003 8:18PM

I just installed Jaguar yesterday and before i even got everything set up i bought 7 songs

cubedude · August 5, 2003 8:49PM

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.

burningwheel · August 5, 2003 11:10PM

nada

magicfingers · August 6, 2003 4:15PM

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.

wrong robot · August 6, 2003 6:17PM

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.

ghost_user_name · August 6, 2003 6:46PM

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

pscates · August 6, 2003 6:49PM

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.

buonrotto · August 6, 2003 7:26PM

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.

cake · August 6, 2003 8:09PM

So far:

ibrowse · August 7, 2003 12:11AM

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.

jeremiah rich · August 7, 2003 12:51AM

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.

eugene · August 7, 2003 12:57AM

159 songs.

Various totals:

615 minutes, 587.1 MB of music.

147.15 dollars spent.

<93 cents per song. ~25 cents per megabyte.

matt ft · August 7, 2003 3:37AM

Nothing, I'm in the UK

serrano · August 7, 2003 4:16AM

3 Albums, 5 singles.

barto · August 7, 2003 6:34AM

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

the general · August 7, 2003 7:02AM

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

snazlord · August 7, 2003 10:10AM

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)

bradbower · August 7, 2003 10:46AM

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!

cubedude · August 7, 2003 12:13PM

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.

How Much've you Got from Apple Music?

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