Will iTunes and the Beatles come together? - bit-tech.net Forums

Tim S · 2nd Apr 2007, 11:25

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/04..._ome_together/

Fod · 2nd Apr 2007, 13:38

nope, much bigger.

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Apple has announced that iTunes will make individual AAC format tracks available from EMI artists at twice the sound quality of existing downloads, with their DRM removed, at a price of $1.29/€1.29/£0.99. iTunes will continue to offer consumers the ability to pay $0.99/€0.99/£0.79 for standard sound quality tracks with DRM still applied. Complete albums from EMI Music artists purchased on the iTunes Store will automatically be sold at the higher sound quality and DRM-free, with no change in the price.

all together now:

**** YEAH!!!

everyone go quickly and buy a bunch of these DRM free tracks! we'll send the loudest message to the record labels yet!

edit: oh it's starting in May. oh well. well, everyone go and buy a bunch of those DRM free songs in may!!

Da Dego · 2nd Apr 2007, 13:56

WOW!!!!! That was better than the beatles

Atomic · 2nd Apr 2007, 14:10

It is a step in the right direction, might help in the (french?) legal battles about the unfair competition?

Nice song reference in the title too

quack · 2nd Apr 2007, 14:14

DRM-free music via iTunes. Great news!!

Flibster · 2nd Apr 2007, 14:55

Double the sound quality....

So they're also implying that normal itunes purchases sound crap then? *not that I'm disagreeing there*

Higher bitrate is good. Can we have some proper lossless songs soon? FLAC would be great.

*strokes his Cowon iAudio A2 and M3*

Simon/~Flibster

Firehed · 2nd Apr 2007, 15:22

See my comments in the thread in SD about the DRM-free bit. But what's the big deal with The Beatles on iTunes? It's not like you can't just buy the damn CD. Or an old cassette. Or an even older LP *glances at _dom* People have managed to use iTunes to rip all their other music... why not Sgt. Pepper?

customh · 2nd Apr 2007, 15:50

Why a higher price? That ought to drive people away... I'm happy they are offering DRM free, but a higher price isn't gonna get [us] pirates paying...

DreamTheEndless · 2nd Apr 2007, 16:40

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Originally Posted by customh

Why a higher price? That ought to drive people away... I'm happy they are offering DRM free, but a higher price isn't gonna get [us] pirates paying...

Well, it doubles the hard drive capacity needed (triples really, because they have 1 copy at 2x the size and another copy at 1x the size,) and it increases the bandwidth requirements.

In addition to that, it's good for companies to be able to offer products to different segments of the market. Look at the Celeron for instance - when the celeron was first introduced, it was a way to sell chips that didn't test out at full speed or chips that had failures in the cache. They just disabled half the cache and underclocked them. The problem was of course that they sold far more celerons than they produced through bad production. What did they do about this? Simple - They took perfectly good pentium 3s (and later pentium 4s,) burned out half the cache, underclocked them, and sold them at a lower price as celerons. Why? Because there was a segment of the market that wanted to buy low-end chips and intel needed to have a product for that market segment.

customh · 2nd Apr 2007, 18:53

ok..... I guess

rupbert · 2nd Apr 2007, 20:33

If they were available for 50p they would sell 100x the amount.

Vash-HT · 3rd Apr 2007, 20:58

I agree that the price is too high. I would muchr ather go through the hassle of buying CD's and ripping .wav files to my PC than dling worse quality tracks for about the same I would pay per track on a cd.

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Flibster Multimodder Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Hitchin, Herts Posts: 73	Double the sound quality.... So they're also implying that normal itunes purchases sound crap then? not that I'm disagreeing there Higher bitrate is good. Can we have some proper lossless songs soon? FLAC would be great. strokes his Cowon iAudio A2 and M3 Simon/~Flibster __________________ "You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxication in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young." "Why, what did she tell you?" "I don't know, I didn't listen." Douglas Adams - Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy - My Hexus Rating Click here to email me

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Firehed Why not? I own a domain to match. Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An hour north of Boston Posts: 12,576	See my comments in the thread in SD about the DRM-free bit. But what's the big deal with The Beatles on iTunes? It's not like you can't just buy the damn CD. Or an old cassette. Or an even older LP glances at _dom People have managed to use iTunes to rip all their other music... why not Sgt. Pepper? __________________ hire me @ eric-stern.com - web developer and php ninja pics @ my smugmug :: Twitter @firehed :: blog @ firehed.net 40D\|580EXII\|285HV\|AB800\|70-200f/4LIS\|17-50f/2.8\|150f/2.8Macro\|50f/1.8 MacPro @ 8x2.8GHz, 10GB FBDDR2, 3TB HD :: MBP @ 2x2.2GHz, 4GB DDR2, 320GB HD

2nd Apr 2007, 14:10	#4
Atomic Gerwaff Join Date: May 2002 Location: Norwich, UK Posts: 7,900	It is a step in the right direction, might help in the (french?) legal battles about the unfair competition? Nice song reference in the title too

2nd Apr 2007, 15:50	#8
customh conflagration. Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Minneapolis, MN Posts: 2,590	Why a higher price? That ought to drive people away... I'm happy they are offering DRM free, but a higher price isn't gonna get [us] pirates paying...

2nd Apr 2007, 18:53	#10
customh conflagration. Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Minneapolis, MN Posts: 2,590	ok..... I guess

2nd Apr 2007, 20:33	#11
rupbert Hypermodder Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Northern Ireland Posts: 799	If they were available for 50p they would sell 100x the amount.

3rd Apr 2007, 20:58	#12
Vash-HT Multimodder Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chicago Posts: 193	I agree that the price is too high. I would muchr ather go through the hassle of buying CD's and ripping .wav files to my PC than dling worse quality tracks for about the same I would pay per track on a cd.