[MacDV] iTunes 4 & The iTunes Music Store

[Dwayne Bradley]

TK and everyone else,

It appears that buying an entire "album" from the Apple Music Store 
will be cheaper that buying each individual song.  For example, Kelly 
Clarkson's new album, Thankful, can be purchased for $9.99 for all 12 
songs.  Not that I would ever buy one of her album's (not my particular 
taste in music and this is the only album that I have been able to get 
the Apple Music Store to bring back so far; constant 504 error since it 
is so busy), but I just wanted to give an example of what I had found.  
I do not know if this would hold true for albums with less that 10 song 
or not, so don't beat me up too bad.

Dwayne


On Monday, April 28, 2003, at 02:07 PM, Thubten Kunga wrote:

> 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. ; 
> ^ )
>
> k
>
> ----------
> <http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/MacDV.html>.
> Send a message to <MacDV-DIGEST at themacintoshguy.com> to switch to the 
> digest version.
>
> XRouter | Share your DSL or cable modem between multiple computers!
> Dr. Bott | Now $139.99      <http://www.drbott.com/prod/xrouter.html>
>
>   Cyberian   | Support this list when you buy at Outpost.com!
>   Outpost    |         http://www.themacintoshguy.com/outpost.shtml
>
> MacResQ Specials: LaCie SCSI CDR From $99! PowerBook 3400/200 Only 
> $879!
> Norton AntiVirus 6 Only $19! We Stock PARTS! <http://www.macresq.com>
>