Comments on: Let My People..err..Music Go! http://www.jarretredding.com/2009/01/let-my-peopleerrmusic-go/ A constant work in progress.. Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:24:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jason http://www.jarretredding.com/2009/01/let-my-peopleerrmusic-go/comment-page-1/#comment-33 jason Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:37:57 +0000 http://www.jarretredding.com/?p=272#comment-33 AmazonMP3 is the best. I've been using it for about a year now and I get all my music from there. No DRM - just a straight data file. The prices are hard to beat also - but I don't really care about the price as much as the DRMfreenessity. AmazonMP3 is the best. I’ve been using it for about a year now and I get all my music from there. No DRM – just a straight data file. The prices are hard to beat also – but I don’t really care about the price as much as the DRMfreenessity.

]]> By: Zero http://www.jarretredding.com/2009/01/let-my-peopleerrmusic-go/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Zero Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:56:15 +0000 http://www.jarretredding.com/?p=272#comment-32 Sadly, Apply likes draconian control procedures. However... if the market wants something and they do cave, expect them to also to try shanking you in the gut while taking your wallet for it. No offense to people who love Apple or are iPod/iPhone fans/owners... They mask lack of functionality in a pretty shell, pretty packaging, and put together really good packaging to market products. The result is a lock-in of a proprietary system that fools and lulls users into an illusion of safety and ease of use. I wish Apple would learn to either talk to studios and say "Look... people want THEIR music at a cheap price, quit givin' 'em the shaft!" to lower prices, but sadly... Apple is just the middle-man trying to gank a buck or two while keeping kosher with studios bonded to the RIAA. Amazon has it right... especially when they do their album blitz sales where the price of the album is about $2 for the "Album of the Day". Plus I agree with their prices as low as $0.79 a song with the ability to keep a copy on my hard drive, my external hard disk archive, a burned back-up on an archive DVD, and even the ability to clip the song as I please to use on my phone as a ringtone. Sadly, people will really have to learn that Apple isn't the only game... Amazon doesn't seem too aggressive on marketing, but word of mouth does work. Let's just hope the sheeple finally wake up and seek better. Especially if Amazon starts doing lots of on-demand HD video download sales. Sadly, Apply likes draconian control procedures. However… if the market wants something and they do cave, expect them to also to try shanking you in the gut while taking your wallet for it. No offense to people who love Apple or are iPod/iPhone fans/owners… They mask lack of functionality in a pretty shell, pretty packaging, and put together really good packaging to market products. The result is a lock-in of a proprietary system that fools and lulls users into an illusion of safety and ease of use.

I wish Apple would learn to either talk to studios and say “Look… people want THEIR music at a cheap price, quit givin’ ‘em the shaft!” to lower prices, but sadly… Apple is just the middle-man trying to gank a buck or two while keeping kosher with studios bonded to the RIAA. Amazon has it right… especially when they do their album blitz sales where the price of the album is about $2 for the “Album of the Day”. Plus I agree with their prices as low as $0.79 a song with the ability to keep a copy on my hard drive, my external hard disk archive, a burned back-up on an archive DVD, and even the ability to clip the song as I please to use on my phone as a ringtone.

Sadly, people will really have to learn that Apple isn’t the only game… Amazon doesn’t seem too aggressive on marketing, but word of mouth does work. Let’s just hope the sheeple finally wake up and seek better. Especially if Amazon starts doing lots of on-demand HD video download sales.

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