[P1] Music Store

[Peter Nacken]

One wrinkle I found that need to be ironed out somehow: The music store has
no trouble charging you 99 cents for short 20 second intro tracks ... But I
found some longer songs (one was a Pink Floyd one at 23 minutes) which is
only available bundled with the whole CD purchase ...

Uncle Steve kinda omitted that there would be songs which would not be
available separately ...  (I kept wondering about the Prince album
"LoveSexy", which back at release came as one single CD track ...)

But all in all, a great idea, I recall the times when I had to spend 3 times
as much to buy one song on a 7" vinyl (which usually came with a B-Side no
one ever wanted to listen to) ... Of course, for now it is US only and I
have yet to find one song I really want to buy ...


P

on 4/29/03 4:40 AM, Paul Bernhardt at pbern10 at xmission.com wrote:

> Well, I downloaded iPod update 1.3, iTunes 4, and Quicktime 6.2... and
> upgraded everything. Then I went to the Music Store and made my first
> purchase.
> 
> Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon... because I don't have it on CD.
> 
> It was so easy, so fun to search, and they have *lots* of stuff (they
> even have Edith Piaf for my father, when he gets his new iMac).
> 
> I've already added Dark Side of the Moon to my iPod, I'm listening to
> it right now...
> 
> On to more surfing for singles that I want (like Coldplay's Clocks,
> because, the version I got off Limewire has a small corruption in the
> file).
> 
> I recommend it!
> 
> And, I think Apple has found a goldmine... there is an old saying: Sell
> to the masses, eat with the classes; sell to the classes, eat with the
> masses. Arguably, Apple sells its computers to the classes, but this
> service is for the masses (particularly when they port to Windows later
> this year).
> 
> Paul