news.bbc.co.uk — Despite the success of Apple's iPod, few people stock their player with tracks from the company's iTunes Store, reports a study. The Jupiter Research report reveals that, on average, only 20 of the tracks on a iPod will be from the iTunes Store. CD-ripped music and files from sharing sites were far more common.
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devindotcomSep 16, 2006
Well, it makes sense - "music" has been around a lot longer than iTunes. It stands to reason that much of a given person's collection would be from the pre-iTunes era. And that's just the legal stuff. Still, only 20 tracks on average, that's the kind of statistic that makes Apple management cringe.
delmonteSep 17, 2006
"most people already have 2-300 cd's of their own"Are you saying most people have 200-300 CDs? In what country do you live?
michaelb1Sep 17, 2006
Your music buying experience vs mine Yours:1-a kid in China make a music CD in a factory2-truckers take it from factory to the ship yards3-dock workers put it on a huge container ship4-Ship's Captain and crew float it 5000 miles to America.5-dock workers load it onto trucks to a wherehouse4-truckers and stockboys take it from wherehouse to the record store5-YOU have to actually make a trip to the store (its raining by the way)6-drive all the way back home7-put the damn CD from China in your computer and rip it to iTunes8-sync your iPod.Mine:1-Apple uploads music to iTunes Store2-I click "get song"
danieleranSep 17, 2006
Drizzit: "I buy from allofmp3.com. The money goes to the artists, just as much and sometimes more than if I bought from iTunes."Seriously, are you clowning or what? That is a russian mafia site which takes your money to sell you unlicensed music. It's cheap because they are selling stuff they didn't pay for. Where did you get the idea that ANY money "goes to the artist"?Most artists make little from any downloads because of their contracts with the labels, but they make NOTHING from stolen music being sold by russian thugs.You are a jackass to be paying for something you could just as well be getting for free from your friends (or priate warez sites if you have no friends). But you are total shill for thugs when you suggest that paying for unlicensed stuff somehow supports artists. What a rube!
Closed AccountSep 17, 2006
Not surprising. Who wants DRM when you can own a real CD with better audio quality? All the hype for download services is just hype. Paid downloads are a very small fraction of CD sales.
yankinozSep 18, 2006
I have over 1500 CDs of the which I have loaded about 8,000 songs. I have only bought 1600 items from iTunes - so statistically, I am shunning iTunes. (Yeah, right). I had CDs and Cassette tapes (remember them!?) long before iPod and iTunes. So, why wouldn't I have more of somethng other than iTunes products. I think this article is to try to disuade people from using iTunes - saying it isn't that good. Reality - iTunes is the #1 legal digital source where ever it is in the world. No one is even close. For my home equipment, I still buy and use CDs - even tho they don't hold a candle to wax (pun intended) - but where can you easily get that stuff except at the WalMart in the Twilight Zone - or is that Zune. :)Cheers.
dacheetahSep 18, 2006
EBFoxbat may not have put it elagantly, but the term is "Couldn't care less", and I don't understand how so many Americans (and I've only seen Americans do it) can get that simple phrase backwards. If I "Couldn't care less" than I obviously am at the lower limit of caring, basically I don't care at all, whereas if I "Could care less" then there is a at least one "level" of careing below how much I care. Infact, if someone cared so much they would sacrifice the entire universe for something, and couldn't possibly care more about something, then they obviously "Could care less", they could care ALOT less.I understand the term has in many places become common usage, but that doesn't make it right. Please don't mess up the English language further, it's messed up enough as it is.
chrisgelevenSep 18, 2006
I use iTunes to buy a single song when I don't want to buy the album. Particuarly one hit wonders. iTunes is deadly to the credit card when you find an iMix like "90s One Hit Wonders" and discover some forgotten tune that you used to love.I have about 100-150 iTunes purchased songs. Probably half were freebies from the Pepsi promotion and the Facebook promotion (25 free songs in different genres). The rest I purchased with my money.However for full albums, there is no substitute yet for owning the physical CD then ripping it.
delmonteSep 19, 2006
Ok that was over the top, but still, with a blue box and the extended DTMF tones, anyone could gain the same powers as a telephone operator.