[MacDV] Re: iTunes 4 & The iTunes Music Store

[Ron Woodland]

No one's twisting any arms here.  Use it or don't.  Personally, I think 
it's a great price.  I think this service is going to be a big hit (no 
pun intended).

I hate buying most CDs because so much of the music is junk, with one or 
two good titles for $12-$16.  Now that's not cost effective.  This 
service from Apple means I can make my own CDs -- with the songs I like 
-- for my own use and be completely legal.  I refused to participate in 
the illegal Napster stuff and it's spin offs.  This is the perfect 
solution to me.

Another big plus is that, for the $0.99 price per song, I can use that 
music for multiple personal uses -- listen on my computer, put it on my 
iPod, burn a CD for my car, use it as a soundtrack in a video, or in 
multimedia presentations (Flash or Director) for the classes I teach.

No commercial stuff though.  I wonder if Apple will offer a full, 
commercial-use option once this thing gets going.  That would be really 
good, depending on the cost that is.

I won't comment on Yoko Ono.

Ron Woodland -- St. George, Utah



Darby Lee Darrow wrote:

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>> 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.
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> The other day I bought two CDs for about $12 each. From one I wanted 
> only one song, and from the other I wanted only 2 songs. Or $8 per song.
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> So for me $.99 is pretty cheap.