[MacDV] iTunes 4 & The iTunes Music Store

[Thubten Kunga]

iTunes 4 Music Store will include the sale of videos and you can use 
what you buy at the store.

Steve Jobs: "The music you buy can also be used in your applications. 
For instance, they can be used as soundtracks for slide shows in iPhoto 
or for movies in iMovie." I'm sure he means only at home.

AAC encoding good. 99¢ per cut not cost effective. I paid $6 for Yoko 
Ono's TEN track Maxi-Single of "Walking On Thin Ice" which is 72.5 
minutes long yesterday — $4 less expensive. I paid $18 for 21 tracks 
and 141.5 minutes of Nick Warren's Global Underground Reykjavik 024 two 
CD box yesterday — $3 less expensive. I have a big booklet that came 
with it, I have three CDs that I can rip anyway I like as often as I 
like, and it was $7 less expensive. The Apple Music service pricing 
doesn't make any sense. The downloaded track must cost significantly 
less than the cost of buying CDs before this model will work. I think 
49¢ a track is a more realistic success target price.

All it means is that CDs will become less expensive than ever as 
retailers fight back including Amazon.com. And that's a good thing. ; ^ 
)

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