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nharmon
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response 11 of 30:
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Apr 30 23:59 UTC 2008 |
I may be getting an iPod soon and plan on filling it with music not
purchased from iTMS. :)
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mcnally
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response 12 of 30:
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May 1 03:50 UTC 2008 |
As does pretty much everybody who buys an iPod but doesn't have $10,000
lying around to blow on music downloads.
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gull
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response 13 of 30:
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May 1 17:20 UTC 2008 |
Re resp:10: I think you're right. They have download managers for most
platforms now, though, including Linux, so it hardly matters.
The majority of the music on my iPod is still from CDs I own, but when I
buy new music now it's mostly in downloaded form.
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anderyn
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response 14 of 30:
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May 16 20:42 UTC 2008 |
I don't know. I have a LOT of iTunes music. But then I don't mind the DRM that
much.
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gull
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response 15 of 30:
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May 20 17:11 UTC 2008 |
I find it kind of an annoyance, but that's partly because I use more
than one computer. iTunes does not cope with this well.
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krj
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response 16 of 30:
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Jun 3 20:47 UTC 2008 |
A couple of music retail stories with Michigan angles. Apologies
for not having links.
Borders reported that their music sales were down 25+% for the
first quarter of 2008. They acknowledge that part of the decline
is because they are shrinking the inventory and the square footage
"aggressively." I think it's a race to see if Borders gets rid
of CD sales before Borders itself goes bust or is sold.
The Handleman company, based in Troy, was one of the largest
distributors of physical music recordings in the US. Maybe they were
the largest? Their web site says they were a Fortune 1000 company
in 2002. Handleman is winding up its music business in North
America and selling the assets to rival Anderson.
Anderson is the leading supplier of CDs for Wal-Mart; Handleman
had been #2. I am still trying to figure out the implications of
this for what's left of CD retail, but I suspect it isn't going to
be good.
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cyklone
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response 17 of 30:
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Jun 3 23:28 UTC 2008 |
I'm surprised Handleman has lasted as long as it has.
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krj
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response 18 of 30:
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Jun 6 05:05 UTC 2008 |
Quoted without content:
-----(start)-----
The music business once had to bear the accusation that it was full
of dinosaurs who looked back to an old business model rather than
embracing a new one.
Today, though, it is the music business that is charting the way
to the future. We are the ones exercising the brains of government
about how to balance a free internet with an internet that respects
intellectual property, is properly regulated and is not the Wild West.
I believe President Sarkozy truly caught the spirit of the age with
that statement. The visionaries and the dinosaurs have perhaps changed
places. If there are dinosaurs around today, I think they are the
internet free-thinkers of the past who believe that copyright is the
great obstacle to progress, that the distributors of content should
enjoy profits without responsibilities and that the creators and
producers of music should simply subordinate their rights to the
rights of everyone else.
-----(end)-----
Paul McGuinness, manager of U2, remarks at the MusicMatters conference
in Hong Kong a few days ago.
http://www.u2.com/news/index.php?mode=full&news_id=2230
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gull
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response 19 of 30:
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Jun 6 19:54 UTC 2008 |
Remember the "broadcast flag" that was intended to restrict home
recording of HDTV programs? The FCC rule requiring its implementation
was struck down in 2005. However, Microsoft Windows Media Center is
honoring it anyway -- something users found out when NBC apparently
started setting the flag on some of their programs, blocking Media
Center from recording them:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9946780-7.html
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cyklone
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response 20 of 30:
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Jun 10 23:13 UTC 2008 |
Here's an amusing story about a chain that accidentally ordered some
LPs, AND THEN ACTUALLY SOLD THEM!
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/10/vinyl.records.ap/index.html
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lar
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response 21 of 30:
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Jun 11 03:18 UTC 2008 |
It may be nostaliga but I still think a vinyl LP with a 1/4 gram
magnetic cart. on the turntable still gives the best sound
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tod
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response 22 of 30:
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Jun 11 04:20 UTC 2008 |
I'm partial to DBX Dolby with FLAC.
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gull
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response 23 of 30:
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Jun 11 17:25 UTC 2008 |
Re resp:21: I think that's true for certain values of "best." It's not
objectively accurate as the sound from a digital recording, but if you
happen to like it better, then that's how you should listen to music.
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krj
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response 24 of 30:
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Jun 17 20:28 UTC 2008 |
The Associated Press has decided to object to the quote-and-link
style of most political blogs. They have filed numerous DMCA takedown
notices against a web site called The Drudge Retort. The excerpt
quotes in question range from 33 to 79 words, according to the
report here:
http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/news/3368/ap-files-7-dmca-takedowns-agai
nst-drudge
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krj
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response 25 of 30:
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Jun 18 18:02 UTC 2008 |
From Monday's NY Times, a feature on venture capitalist Guy Hands and
his tenure at the head of the EMI record company. The most important
quote:
>>"An analysis by McKinsey and KPMG found that EMI had lost £750
>>million ($1.5 billion) from selling new music over the last
>>five years.
>>"'We didn't believe it at first,' he said, explaining that the
>>figures that EMI previously reported counted sales of re-releases of
>>music from old acts like the Beatles as new music revenue."
<< endquote
Just, wow. EMI's recorded music business is no longer creating any
value from new music -- in fact new music is a giant money pit and
it's probable that the corporation would benefit from shutting it
down and just selling music from the back catalog.
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tod
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response 26 of 30:
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Jun 18 18:07 UTC 2008 |
Mmmm'Bop!
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gull
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response 27 of 30:
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Jun 18 19:46 UTC 2008 |
Re resp:25: I'm sure they'll find a way to blame this on illegal
downloading.
I'm always kind of distrustful of entertainment industry loss figures.
My understanding is it's common to use creative accounting to come up
with loss figures so that they can get out of paying royalties. It's
been said that if you believe movie industry accountants, no movie has
ever turned an overall profit. ;)
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krj
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response 28 of 30:
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Sep 17 05:08 UTC 2008 |
An actual response about Napster!! :)
Best Buy has acquired Napster. The bloggy speculation is that Best Buy
is doing this to acquire an online delivery system which might be able
to compete with walmart.com. I can't vouch for this myself, but
the blogwriters argued that Best Buy's existing online music system
was not very good.
On the other hand, we recall a previous Best Buy acquisition: they bought
the national CD retail chain Musicland in 1999, just before the market
started to collapse, and eventually Best Buy gave Musicland away for
zero cash, a year or so before Musicland's final shutdown in bankruptcy.
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krj
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response 29 of 30:
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May 13 13:34 UTC 2009 |
To the music conference:
Looks like about a year since I had one of these items. In the past
there were some readers in the music conference who objected to having
this linked from Agora, but I suspect those folks are all gone now
anyway. Any thoughts?
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mary
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response 30 of 30:
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May 13 13:47 UTC 2009 |
Link away.
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