The Dream Is Over: Music Labels Have Killed Their Digital Future
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The Dream Is Over: Music Labels Have Killed Their Digital Future
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#2> Nobody’s going to pay Google $25 a year to store their music in a cloud.
I'd pay that to be rid of iTunes.
Re: The Dream Is Over: Music Labels Have Killed Their Digital Future
#3> Nobody’s going to pay Google $25 a year to store their music in a cloud. I'd pay that to be rid of iTunes.
Me too. iTunes is just horrible. I'd love a non-iTunes way of getting my music onto an iPod.
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#4> Nobody’s going to pay Google $25 a year to store their music in a cloud. I'd pay that to be rid of iTunes.
Me too. iTunes is just horrible. I'd love a non-iTunes way of getting my music onto an iPod.
Then allow me to make your day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_iPod_managers
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#5> Nobody’s going to pay Google $25 a year to store their music in a cloud. I'd pay that to be rid of iTunes.
I think the question is: "What else do I get for that $25?"
I hate dealing with my library of songs. If I could stream it to any device, any time, as well as have -any- other value-added service attached, I'd pay the $25 per year.
By 'any device' I mean TV, PC, Android Phone, PS3 and more. Basically, any device that I can hook to the internet.
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#6> Nobody’s going to pay Google $25 a year to store their music in a cloud. I'd pay that to be rid of iTunes.
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#7The point about the labels doing it to themselves is probably only half the story.
The other half is the culturally ingrained phenomena of "the dream." Many artists jamming in their basements dream of "signing," and expect a big advance, tours, radio play, and all of that old-world stuff. Many today of course realize that there's the Internet and they can afford to distribute their work for pennies and market to their hearts desire; but even those artists generally still think that "signing" is the next, big logical step.
The big labels cannot change. The 80s and 90s left us with a market and taste for stadium tours, music videos, and times square billboards. Six decades of business have given us a model that requires a huge up-front investment for a risky, but lucrative return.
The problem is the returns are becoming scarce.
Yet I think big labels will continue to persist only because they're the loan sharks with the money. I think the author is pretty close to right that there's likely no one that will fund a start up that has anything to do with music. If you have an innovative idea that you think can improve the situation, create new markets, etc you'll have to do it on your own.
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#8Google music. Who cares? Oh right, you guys don't have Spotify.
I don't know anyone that has it that bothers with iTunes or actually buying music anymore. Get the free version, and get any music anytime and the occasional ad. Pay a few bucks a month, and you get any music anytime with no ads.
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#9The point about the labels doing it to themselves is probably only half the story. The other half is the culturally ingrained phenomena of "the dream." Many artists jamming in their basements dream of "signing," and expect a big advance, tours, radio play, and all of that old-world stuff. Many today of course realize that there's the Internet and they can afford to distribute their work for pennies and market to thei…
The big labels don't feel like changing, not that they cannot change. They are a bunch of human beings at all.
Aren't human beings flexible enough to thrive anywhere on earth?
Yet, some humans choose to die rather than adapt.
The labels don't want to deal with the changing business. So they rather die.
Re: The Dream Is Over: Music Labels Have Killed Their Digital Future
#10Google music. Who cares? Oh right, you guys don't have Spotify. I don't know anyone that has it that bothers with iTunes or actually buying music anymore. Get the free version, and get any music anytime and the occasional ad. Pay a few bucks a month, and you get any music anytime with no ads.
Well, we do have Grooveshark. But it probably won't last. :(