Just for clarification, which of these services use DRM or other protection?
Bleep - NO
Kompakt - ?
Beatport - ?
Audiobulb - ?
iTunes - YES
eMusic - YES?
Napster - YES
Rapsody - YES?
----- Original Message -----
From: "David @ Audiobulb" <dwnewman@clara.co.uk>
Cc: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 4:14 AM
Subject: Re: [idm] idm] People who still pay for music shout-out...
quoted 146 lines Audiobulb Records has its work out in digital shops and yes iTunes,
> Audiobulb Records has its work out in digital shops and yes iTunes,
> eMusic, Napster and RealNetworks/Rhapsody seems to be where the action is
> in terms of sales. There is definately a sense that this is agrowth area
> and whilst CD sales drop off from some - digital sales are picking up. The
> eMusic deal seems like a good one.
>
> Which of these digital outlets do people find easiest or most useful to
> use?
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> From: <Brian.Power@cso.ie>
> To: "Zach Hoon" <sorted@saturn5.com>
> Cc: <idm@hyperreal.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:04 AM
> Subject: [idm] idm] People who still pay for music shout-out...
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>> Sure yeah, bleep has got lots to commend it by virtue of the fact that it
>> don't have no DRM, and it's swift and straightforward to purchase once
>> your
>> account is set up... only little quibble I'd have is that they don't
>> encode
>> their mp3's at a higher bitrate - LAME alt-preset standard bitrate of 192
>> vbr is pretty good, but there are others offering less compressed
>> audio...
>>
>> Both kompakt and beatport offer tracks at an (almost) standard 320 kbps
>> across the board... granted you're probably not going to pick up quite as
>> many "IDM/electronica" artists on these sites, their marketplace being
>> moreso the club (whichever "house/techno" genre) sounds favoured by the
>> four to the floor fraternity...
>>
>> Otherwise, as I've said before, a subscription with emusic is a pretty
>> economical means of picking up a fair bit of a mix of allsorts of
>> indepenently released musics, generally encoded at alt-preset-standard
>> LAME, and with a surprising amount of quality sounds on tap. A 90 tracks
>> monthly subscription costs little more than the price of a single album
>> on
>> CD...
>>
>>
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>>
>> i just want to take this moment to say hooray for bleep.com.
>>
>> i used to download all sorts of stuff, but i got sick of the crap
>> quality and queues and all that. now i just use bleep. they have nearly
>> everything i'm looking for, be it idm, weird ass stuff, indie,
>> downtempo, etc, and they've turned me on to all sorts of music i might
>> never have heard of.
>>
>> i'm sick of the space all the vinyl and cds take up. once the conversion
>> to digital format is complete, i will sell it all off to make room for
>> more books (and when they come up with a suitable digital format for
>> books, bye bye hard copies!). sound quality schmound quality, 10 years
>> of djing has made me deaf enough not to notice. drive failure? dvd
>> backups. cover art and liner notes? bah, most of it sucks these days.
>>
>> bleep has become my onestop shop. anyone have any other music sites
>> they'd care to recommend? itunes and their drm can suck it. i don't
>> share files, but i don't want to have to 'authorize' every damn device i
>> play my tracks on (i use a lot of different devices).
>>
>> wow this kinda turned into a rant, didn't it? crazy.
>>
>> music: i like wisp's 'nthndr'. nothing groundbreaking, but nice tunes.
>> 'congratulations' is often repeated. i also want more from s.t.
>> 'emotions in a box' ep is grand, and i like the 'i'll meet you there'
>> ep...how about a full album?
>>
>> k, i'm done.
>>
>> -z
>>
>>
>> chthonic streams wrote:
>>>>> I hope the idea of rewarding
>>>>> artists financially if you value their music hasn't gone completely
>>>>> out of style.
>>>>>
>>>> Agreed. The reason I sell on eBay is to buy more.
>>>> It is not now, nor never has been a money-making proposition for me -
>>>> it's more of an addiction than anything.
>>>
>>> ditto. i make music but that doesn't mean i stopped listening or caring
>>> about other artists, or that i always just want to trade with them ot
>>> just download. mp3s just make me want to buy the release if the music
>>> is good.
>>>
>>> case in point, when some depeche mode single remixes came out recently i
>>> checked out the remixers' work and ended up ordering a metope album and
>>> an areal records comp. also got judith juillerat's debut on
>>> shitkatapult, good stuff!
>>>
>>>
>>> d.
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