arstechnica.com — Apple is supposedly going to start crediting you for the individual tracks you've bought if you decide buy the whole album later. So, say 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.
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amandaw33Nov 13, 2006
Even if they charged you the full $9.99 and gave you a $.99 credit towards downloading another song.. that'd be a step in the right direction.
mechanisma22Nov 14, 2006
They haven't given a time for when they start this. I have a few songs that I want to buy the whole album now. I think CD's have better quality than iTunes music, plus some have extra's like music videos. And can anyone answer me this: Why can't you get the song with a music video so you don't have to pay for a song for the ipod when you bought the music video first?
jmack111Nov 14, 2006
I have purchased unkown amount of songs then went back for the album and had to pay the extra.I think this is a great idea.
delmonteNov 14, 2006
Dang, I just bought an album on iTunes, mainly for a bonus Quicktime video that came with it, for which I had already bought 3 of the songs. iTunes warned me before the purchase that I would have duplicate purchases. I was actually hoping that it would credit back my tunes like they intend to do.But really I shouldn't complain that much, the album was 18 songs + a 36 minutes bonus video for 11$, so in the end it was still a great deal.
quixNov 14, 2006
"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." - paulmike3Yet 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.
plughNov 14, 2006
I saw this credit-toward-full-album thing happen to me weeks ago. Where have you been?
adamcarringtonNov 14, 2006
"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.