Comments on: Record companies should stop whining

By: Clint Diesel » Blog Archive » Record labels just don’t get it.

Clint Diesel » Blog Archive » Record labels just don’t get it. — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:52:53 +0000

[...] on peer2peer. They just have to forget about making money on distributing CDs (I wrote about that here some time [...]

By: Clint Diesel » See … I was right

Clint Diesel » See … I was right — Sun, 18 May 2008 21:40:25 +0000

[...] It seems like Mr. Anders Bylund have the same take on piracy that I expressed in one of my earlier posts “Why record companies should stop whining” [...]

By: jonas

jonas — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:24:14 +0000

haha…a few to many zeros on there, but you get the point.

By: jonas

jonas — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:22:43 +0000

well, besides DRM there is another thing holding me back from buying downloads. there is no artwork, production-credits etc, how hard is it to put that stuff in a pdf-file? second and most important: sound-quality. i know im probably a minority in this regard, but i like to play my music on a quality stereo. and the formats you can get legally is just not good enough for that. give me a losless wav file, and i can burn it on a disc and end up with something in true cd-quality. if i want it on my pc or mp3-player i can rip to whatever format i like. most people probably wont care about the quality, but how hard is it to give the people that do the option? i mean the 5-6-70000 mb are nothing these days anyway…

By: kimblim

kimblim — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:44:58 +0000

It’s an absolute disgrace that I can’t buy music from the iTunes store and play the files on my Sony-Ericsson Walkman phone – or any other non-Apple product for that matter. I don’t mind spending the few bucs on good music, but the music has to be playable where-ever and when-ever I want to play it.
I just bought a few tracks, and I can’t convert them to mp3’s because of the DRM – now I have to go download them illegally as well. Thank you record companies for making me a criminal.

At least the music industry is slowly getting there (after 10 years), but the movie business has a lot to learn. The last edition of Wired had a great article on this: http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/16-03/st_essay

By: Clint

Clint — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:33:00 +0000

Thank you – glad you liked it!
I do agree that discount on earlier releases is not a selling point in itself. It is more like a “reward” for buying an album.
If you “discover” an artist that already released a number of albums you might be interested in buying the old ones.

More often than not an album older than a year can be found at a cheaper price if you buy it on a cd, so this is just meant as a way of mirroring that effect somehow.

In regards to preferring cds. I know that a lot of people still do, I have a major cd collection myself, but there is a clear tendency that more and more people only use their music on computers and mp3 players and actually see the cd itself as an inconvenient way of getting it. And the industry need to wake up and smell the coffee.

By: goldcoaster

goldcoaster — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:28:24 +0000

Thanks for commenting on my site, Clint.

This article is great, well written.
You say for value added stuff “Discount on earlier albums from this artist. ” I don’t believe that would help as you are trying to get people to pay for music instead of P2P, a discount doesn’t matter if you get the music free to start with…but exclusive items may.

i still prefer CDs to be honest – the CD can be played anywhere, is an automatic backup for my iPod/mp3 music, I can rip it to any format and bit-rate I like and re-rip in the future if some new format pops up (mp3,aac,ogg,flac… future???)- plus most importantly for me, is cheaper that buying online music.
I find online music with no physical extras like covers etc and at a price that is equal or (most times) more than a CD is crazy, with or without DRM (thats a whole level of craziness by itself. Our family has multiple computers, multiple brands of ‘mp3′ players and multiple sound systems – DRM just doesn’t work for us.
cheers from Australia.