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- fiorenza, on 10/12/2007, -4/+68If true, that's a stand up move, and might actually lead to more album sales.
...so I can't possibly see how the labels would allow this. - amandaw33, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31Even if they charged you the full $9.99 and gave you a $.99 credit towards downloading another song.. that'd be a step in the right direction.
- FlyboyP, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17This has been my biggest gripe with iTunes. I think it's a moneymaker - it will encourage more album sales.
- thecolorifix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14"Yes... I'd lose the music if I stopped paying. I'd also stop getting magazines if I stopped paying for the subscription fees, too."
Yeah but does a repo man come to your house and collect all the back issues you have? - KSUdesigner, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12"Disagree with me but don't mod me down you ***** thought nazis."
Modding you down means we disagree with you moron. First of all, your argument is invalid. "I'd also stop getting magazines if I stopped paying for the subscription fees, too." Yeah, excpet you would still own the copies that you already paid for. Hmm how does that makes sense? Your cable tv, internet and power are SERVICES, not products. Completely different beast there my friend. And Napster? Who the ***** uses Napster anymore?
There, I modded you down and disagreed with you. - a1lostnomad, on 10/12/2007, -6/+16Yes your exactly right fallenone05, Apple should immediately start using the model that has failed countless times when tried by several others. It all makes perfect sense!
- KSUdesigner, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12wrong reply box. damn it digg let me delete my own comments.
- fixedgod, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I hope they do this with TV shows as well. Started downloading individual episodes of Battlestar Galactica, then realized I would probably want the whole season, but can't get past the warning that I'll have duplicate purchases.
- JaceFuse, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Creative Book-Keeping.
A little slight and hand, smoke and mirrors, and those two track purchases never happened. *wink wink* - mywhitenoise, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8You can. Apple lets you download the same music (if you lost it) 3 times I believe, and you can share it with 5 other computers.
- methodshop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2if you decide to buy the entire album, then everybody wins. You save some money and get the music you want. The record companies sell more albums (something they are struggling to do because everyone just buys singles now). And Apple makes a bigger commission.
It's a great idea. I'm surprised Apple hasn't done this in the iTunes Music Store since day one. - Plugh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I saw this credit-toward-full-album thing happen to me weeks ago. Where have you been?
- DummyO, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Direct link to the article of substance:
http://news.com.com/2061-11516_3-6134596.html?tag=nefd.top - adamcarrington, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Yeah, excpet [sic] you would still own the copies that you already paid for."
You miss the point and you chastise me.
Music CAN be a SERVICE just like television, satellite radio, power, telephone, garbage pickup, and a whole lot of other things in life. Just because YOU do not want a music subscription service DOES NOT mean there is no market.
Small market or large, there is a market. AGAIN, Napster, et al have failed because they do not work with iPods. Plain and simple.
You, and every other thought Nazi like YOU would rather mod me down than see that owning the music is just a quaint little thought considering you really don't OWN the music anyway. It was licensed to you.
And I'm the moron? Spare me. - zoltan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1its a sad day on digg
- diggnationdevon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Smart move for Apple.
- buc02, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"allow you to download the files more than once like you can with the Zune."
Uhmm. They already do that in cases of catastrophe. Other than that, why would you need to download your song more than once? With itms I can already play the song on more than 5 devices. Same thing. I can burn it to a disk and re-rip to remove the DRM and use it anywhere I please. Can you do that with Zune?
Peace:)
SA - dukeinlondon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I always buy CDs. Better quality, can sell them if I don't like them and they consitute a backup if my HD goes BANG.
That being said, it's a nice move if they can manage it. - cmiz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2i'll call a spade a spade, this is a very good idea by apple and is going to make a lot of people happy. in an age where media sellers are constantly limiting and taking things away, it's good to see apple treating their customers like... well... customers.
(now if we can only work on the whole drm thing... at least they're not installing rootkits yet though.) - superkendall, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2How is it "worth it" when every song costs $monthy_fee * $number_of_months_in_your_whole_life?
I mean do you figure in ten years you are suddenly going to decide to give up music altogether? Because otherwise it's like paying for the ability to breathe. - DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Dang, I just bought an album on iTunes, mainly for a bonus Quicktime video that came with it, for which I had already bought 3 of the songs. iTunes warned me before the purchase that I would have duplicate purchases. I was actually hoping that it would credit back my tunes like they intend to do.
But really I shouldn't complain that much, the album was 18 songs + a 36 minutes bonus video for 11$, so in the end it was still a great deal. - jmack111, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I have purchased unkown amount of songs then went back for the album and had to pay the extra.
I think this is a great idea. - Quix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1No big deal - the season pass this year isn't that great a deal ($34.99 for 19 episodes) like it was last season ($25.99 for 20 episodes). Lame.
And I'm STILL waiting for Sci Fi to make things right on that crap encoding job they did on 3x01. Jaggies galore. Hideously bad. They should re-encode and repost and give us all a free re-download for suffering through that weak trash. I'm waiting... - superkendall, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yes, the season passes right now seem to cost exactly as much as the episodes you would get purchased seperatley...
However there is still a use for this, in that season passes download automatically - so it would be great to be able to buy a season pass for something I had already bought a few episodes for, even if it were no cheaper at all. Then I wouldn't have to go back to the store every week.
Heros is like that for me, I didn't know if I would like it so I bought the first few episodes. - mechanisma22, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1They haven't given a time for when they start this. I have a few songs that I want to buy the whole album now. I think CD's have better quality than iTunes music, plus some have extra's like music videos. And can anyone answer me this: Why can't you get the song with a music video so you don't have to pay for a song for the ipod when you bought the music video first?
- kr3wthrough, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hopefully also account for tv shows and such media... not that you can't do this already? just buy hte other 9 songs tht you haven't bought one that album if you bought 2.
- minoss, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Well until Apple decides to not lock my purchases of music to only their ipods I will never buy music from them. Vendor lock in simply isn't worth it.
- paulmike3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@ Quix:
"Should Apple have to store my entire purchased music collection on their servers indefinitely on my behalf because I can't perform responsible data backup? No, they shouldn't, and I don't expect them too. I guess I'm just independent that way."
um... you think allowing someone to re-download a purchased song would require them to store a a copy of the song on the server? that's hilarious. please go research the complex concepts of "downloading files" and "user accounts and history". - stevejb68, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think it is an excellent idea. How much do you want to bet the RIAA will try to ram into this somehow?
- Quix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"um... you think allowing someone to re-download a purchased song would require them to store a a copy of the song on the server? that's hilarious." - paulmike3
Yet Apple should pay for the bandwidth for me to re-download my entire music/video collection whenever my hard drive bombs or I screw something up and I don't have proper backups? The iTMS isn't much of a profit-generating machine for Apple as it is (aside from driving iPod sales, of course).
I have 10G of video alone from the iTMS. That's a lot of bandwidth, and it's unreasonable for me to expect to be able to re-download it all whenever I need to, as many times as I'd like.
I don't expect my .99 or 1.99 to get me unlimited, lifetime access to my media at Apple's expense. Nor would I expect that from Microsoft if I were to buy a Zune. Apparently you do. - jrbrewin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"you bought two tracks from an album at 99 cents apiece and the album is priced at $9.99. If you decided to buy the album later, Apple would charge you something like $8.01 instead"
you mean this doesn't already happen? shocking. - Quix, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4"Now all they need to do [among other problems] is allow you to download the files more than once like you can with the Zune."
Seriously, estvir, is this REALLY a big selling point in your book? The songs/videos I buy in iTunes are automatically backed up to my secondary hard drive. And to DVD-R on a regular basis. It's not rocket science. Should Apple have to store my entire purchased music collection on their servers indefinitely on my behalf because I can't perform responsible data backup? No, they shouldn't, and I don't expect them too. I guess I'm just independent that way.
The Zune crowd is getting desperate to find some legitimate selling points...
Points, points, hmm, why does that sound familiar? Oh yeah, because you buy Zune music with POINTS! 79 points buys a song! And 99 cents buys 79 points! Because that's not confusing for the customer at all!
The Zune system has far more problems then the iPod/iTunes system, my friend. I sense some serious discomfort among even the most dedicated Microsoft apologists (like estvir) on this whole Zune thing... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2About time.
- goat2, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Maybe one day UNICEF will get into the music business, but until then, they're the people to see.
- estvir, on 10/12/2007, -12/+4Now all they need to do [among other problems] is allow you to download the files more than once like you can with the Zune.
Reported as a dupe though, being on the frontpage once is enough. - adamcarrington, on 10/12/2007, -18/+7Everyone else failed because *nobody* else is doing subscriptions on an iPod.
It's that simple.
I would pay $20.00 a month for an all-you-can-download subscription service.
Yes... I'd lose the music if I stopped paying. I'd also stop getting magazines if I stopped paying for the subscription fees, too. Or my cable TV. Or my Internet. Or my power. Seriously, the whole "we want to own the music!!" only applies to the wishes of a certain group of music fans and I ***** hate being lumped into it.
Napster sucks because it doesn't work with iTunes and iPods. It's that simple. - curtissthompson, on 10/12/2007, -19/+7sorry, already hit homepage:
http://digg.com/apple/Apple_Getting_Creative_On_Album_Pricing - jhshukla, on 10/12/2007, -13/+1it's a business; not a charity. what else do you expect?
- fallenone05, on 10/12/2007, -16/+4Apple should also give you the option of paying for music subscription service. All the songs you want for a monthly fee. Although you loose all the songs upon cancellation, it's still worth it.
- estvir, on 10/12/2007, -15/+3The Zune has that already.
- adamcarrington, on 10/12/2007, -20/+4Disagree with me but don't mod me down you ***** thought nazis.
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