[P1] Music Store

[Peter Nacken]

on 4/29/03 9:22 AM, Charles Pearce at charlesp at ksu.edu wrote:

> 
> On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, at 07:27  AM, Peter Nacken wrote:
> 
>> 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 ...
> 
> My understanding is that the $.99 is for the whole track; the sample is
> free. Since I already had an Apple account, all I had to do is to give
> credit card information and within seconds the Ella Fitzgerald album I
> wanted was pouring into my playlist. Almost too easy. I can imagine
> that this could become addictive and might be cut-off by my wife when
> the credit card bill comes in! The selection isn't all-inclusive, but
> fairly wide from what I've seen so far. It returned no hits on "Nick
> Drake," for instance, but returned some Bill Evans I didn't have yet.
> iLife is good.
> 
> Charles Pearce <charlesp at ksu.edu>

Sorry if I did not make my point clear ... Do a search on pink floyd, a song
called "stop" .. It is 30 secs long and available for 99 cents ..

Now look at at song called "echoes" .. It is 23 minutes long .. And ONLY
available if you buy the full album ... AND ... This album has 6 tracks ..
Should be 6 bucks, right ??? Nope .. You have to pay 11.99 for the album !!!
you can get tracks 1-5 for 99 cent each ... But not track 6 ...

Of course I understand the economics behind that ... But these are just some
little details that the Job-ster did not share with us yet ...

P