Buymusic/iTunes

[brokensaint]

On the topic of downloading services now offered, the new service Buymusic is a total rip and their deal is pretty much garbage, the next best would be apple's itunes but it won't be released for PC for a while. The question is what do you do in the meantime? Ya can't use P2P or ya get sued by some overpaid suit from the RIAA and no one seems to offer any feasible alternative to downloading music for the PC. Anyone had any good news concerning the MP3 prohibition that's been going on lately?

[Mattress]

www.emusic.com

[Mr_007]

http://www.eworldrecords.com

[killswitch1968]

buymusic only allows IE users and Windows users. I will never use their service.

Other 2 services posted offer little/no quantity.

[Mattress]

so go to a music store and buy a cd then.

[dlinkwit27]

Originally posted by Mattress
so go to a music store and buy a cd then.

thou hast spoken thy words of curse! cure thee and all thy spawn for thy wretched speak!

[whiteflip]

our local music store just went belly up. see what happens when you try to sell a 2 cent disc for 20 bucks.

i hella buy my music at target (walmart censors)

if they have a service that offers music in Mp3 Wma and OGG at various qualities for a dollar and no restrictions I will use it.

[brokensaint]

Yeah that would be cool, the only problem is that most of the pay sites don't have very complete libraries as far as the whole scope of music goes. The same goes for the large chain stores, ie: walmart, target, bestbuy. Smaller more obscure bands are hard to find in the larger stores, and independent music shops have to charge more to stay in with the competition. RIAA is only screwing the very people they depend on. They should be trying to work with consumers to find an alternative instead of just laying down the "law", that's not fixing anything. My solution would be to have both sides choose WWE (WWF) wrestlers and have em' fight it out in a wrestle mania, winner take all. SUNDAY...SUNDAY...SUNDAY, RIAA vs. LOD don't miss it!

[SNYder]

Originally posted by brokensaint
Ya can't use P2P or ya get sued by some overpaid suit from the RIAA ...

They are only suing those who are sharing (aka uploading) files, not downloading files from others. And even then, they are only suing those who they catch sharing at least 100 files (approximately). Oh, and also, they are only suing people who are sharing certain songs.

I have an iPod (3rd Gen, 30GB) and I can't wait for iTunes for Windows to come out. As for the iTunes Music Store, I won't buy many songs and I definitely won't buy many albums from it until they bring the prices down to at least 89 cents per song/$8.99 per album and give the option to download 160Kbps AAC files instead of the standard 128kbps ones.

Until they do that I'll just continue to buy CD's elsewhere, rip them onto my computer, and convert them to "-alt preset standard" mp3's (which usually averages around 195-220Kbps for my CD's) or (in the future when iTunes for Windows comes out) convert them in iTunes to 160kbps AAC files (which is transparent to me).

p.s. Yes Buymusic.com is piece of shit service and Apple will crush them come the end of the year.

p.p.s. Did you know that upon Buymusic.com's opening, only a single song in their entire Top 100 list was selling for 79 cents with the vast majority being a dollar or more. I just find that extremely funny figuring that the 79 cents number is their main marketing push.

p.p.p.s. Buymusic.com uses the Windows Media Audio format! BUAHAHAHAHA! That's enough reason right there not to use the service!

[henry3k56]

Do what Mac people are doing! Obtain a Mac, obtain an iPod, obtain a huge setback of over 1500 dollars.

Of course you can ask Santa for all those things and more from Apple.com

[SNYder]

It is a shame their products cost more than their PC competition, but they have to keep the prices high in order to make up for the lack of sales in all departments other then the iPod. But, with the huge success of the iTunes Music Store and along with it even better sales of the iPod, this could be just the push Apple needs to start to get its computers and OS more popular. If that were to happen, prices would surely start to become more competitive with PC prices.

[oNaMiSsIo]

Originally posted by Mattress
so go to a music store and buy a cd then.

i was talking to friends from Bulgaria and one of them told me that there, CDs cost 3-5$, american. mind you, these are american artists. why the hell is an american CD $17 in america and $3 in Bulgaria? because the music labels are greedy bastards who need to be put in their place. I say we sue them for price-fixing.

[whiteflip]

Originally posted by oNaMiSsIo
i was talking to friends from Bulgaria and one of them told me that there, CDs cost 3-5$, american. mind you, these are american artists. why the hell is an american CD $17 in america and $3 in Bulgaria? because the music labels are greedy bastards who need to be put in their place. I say we sue them for price-fixing.

Most likely a pirated copy. Outside of America piracy is rampant and near impossible to tell the difference between it and the real thing.

In china 95% of their shit is pirated. They dont see anything wrong with it. Why pay 50 dollars for software when you can pay 5?

[henry3k56]

Originally posted by whiteflip
Most likely a pirated copy. Outside of America piracy is rampant and near impossible to tell the difference between it and the real thing.

In china 95% of their shit is pirated. They dont see anything wrong with it. Why pay 50 dollars for software when you can pay 5?

That is true. Its like the superbill, just make that the supercd.

[killswitch1968]

Originally posted by Mattress
so go to a music store and buy a cd then.

TheEnd
My post was implying there is no pay-per-download servce that has the content p2p has.