Record labels still don't get it.
It's still too expensive. I know it's a start but these fat cats at record labels have been living the good life too long. Dropping the price to $15 won't stop the downloading of MP3's.
Once Apple Canada begins offering songs (my guess is $1.39/song), no one will buy a CD. Most CD only contain two good songs anyways so why spend $15, when you can have what you want immediately for about $3.
To be competitive, all CD's should be at $10 (cdn), $12 max, for special releases.
http://globeandmail.com/servlet/stor...tory/Business/
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Randy Lennox, president and chief executive officer of Universal Music Canada, said it is recommending that its hit CDs be priced at $14.99 and that older CDs be $18.99 while other older ones, such as Elton John, be $9.99.
Once Apple Canada begins offering songs (my guess is $1.39/song), no one will buy a CD. Most CD only contain two good songs anyways so why spend $15, when you can have what you want immediately for about $3.
To be competitive, all CD's should be at $10 (cdn), $12 max, for special releases.
http://globeandmail.com/servlet/stor...tory/Business/
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Randy Lennox, president and chief executive officer of Universal Music Canada, said it is recommending that its hit CDs be priced at $14.99 and that older CDs be $18.99 while other older ones, such as Elton John, be $9.99.
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It's been said that the big 5 (label conglomerates) charge stores $10 per disc. So are they now forcing these stores to stop dramatically marking up the cost, or are they meeting them half way? (charging them a bit less, so the stores can charge the customer less). In other words, could a store (say HMV) pocket half the discount themselves, and offer the other half to the consumer by only knocking half the discount off the CD price?
I don't really expect the American recording industry to cater to my peculiar tastes, but I do look forward to the day when they realize and accept that the physical printing and distribution of recorded media is obsolete. The sooner they stop trying to legally enforce their own stagnation and start adapting, the sooner the whole world will embrace the trend and weirdos like me WILL be able to buy our music online without paying insane prices for printing, shipping, and obsolete middlemen. Truth be told, I look forward to a day when every online shopping service is as convenient and easy to use as the Apple Music Store. I don't even really use the thing, and I've already been spoiled by it!
Originally posted by Influenza
I don't really expect the American recording industry to cater to my peculiar tastes, but I do look forward to the day when they realize and accept that the physical printing and distribution of recorded media is obsolete.
It won't become completely obsolete until the online places use loss-less compression.
I think a technology officially becomes standard when something like 85% of consumers use it. Where does online shopping stand at the moment, anyone?
Song swappers flock to invitation-only Internet
"SAN JOSE, California (AP) -- Just as Prohibition drove drinkers underground in the roaring '20s, the music industry's crackdown is pushing many song swappers away from the open Internet and into what amount to cyberspace speakeasies."
As long as there are Ian Clarke's, computers and the internet...there will always be somewhere and somehow a way to get something for nothing.
Originally posted by Whisper
It won't become completely obsolete until the online places use loss-less compression.
YEAH RIGHT. High bitrate lossy compression encoded from the original 24-bit 96KHz master sounds a million times better than CD "quality".
Lossless DOES NOT mean quality. In fact, for the same file size, it means LOW quality.
Barto
Originally posted by Barto
YEAH RIGHT. High bitrate lossy compression encoded from the original 24-bit 96KHz master sounds a million times better than CD "quality".
Lossless DOES NOT mean quality. In fact, for the same file size, it means LOW quality.
Barto
Then increase the file size.