On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, foam bee wrote:
quoted 3 lines Mp3.com takes 50%. You sell a CD for 6 bucks, they take 3. I think it's a
> Mp3.com takes 50%. You sell a CD for 6 bucks, they take 3. I think it's a
> shitty deal, but we all hve our opinions.
>
The shitty part of it isn't the royalty percentage -- it's better than
you'd get from a real record label. The bad parts are:
1. They send out CDRs, and most people can burn their own and sell them
and take all the cash.
2. They actually make the CDs from the MP3 files so there's a generation
loss in the final product. 128k mp3 files don't sound bad, but they
don't sound as good as a CD made from the original master. Better than
a cassette, not as good as CD.
3. Even though there is a lot of good stuff on mp3.com and a lot of
people (including me) use it as a nice place to stash mp3 files, it's
like flypaper for losers (loserpaper?), so you have a hard time standing
out of the crowd.
My advice -- do your own web page and burn your own CDs, and don't expect
mp3.com to do any legwork for you. You're just window dressing for banner
ads to them.
So if you want to know if I'm a loser, visit
http://www.mp3.com/chaircrusher
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