I agree. It seems to me that there would be a market for high-quality, high bandwidth music audio, so long as it was really uncompressed. As we know, during repeated re-conversions of any audio, no matter how good the conversion process (and in the piracy domain, it's usually not good at all) quality is lost.
So a certified source of unadulterated audio needn't be commercial suicide if the quality is guaranteed. Rather it could be selling point. (My 0.02p's worth.) Ken -----Original Message----- From: Jamil Ali [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 December 2005 15:08 To: list 313 Subject: Re: (313) Detroitdigitalvinyl.com I think there is a market for downloads of music like this. I'd definitley be part of the market. I can't often make it to a recordstore and I don't want to be spending half my music budget on shipping costs for mail ordering. I also can't stand recording off a record to hard drive to encode to mp3 just so I can take a track on my mp3 player.... I can't be the only one... Jamil robin wrote: >> I agree with Alex, being able to get the audio as wavs at a slightly >> higher price is something I'd also be prepared to pay for. > > > Me three (but see below). Or at least in a lossless format like FLAC. > > Thing is though is there a big demand for downloads for the kind of > music we are talking about here? ie. "underground" (not that I like > that term) techno/electro/house? > > I mean when I dj I play off a laptop and I've not bought one single > digital download yet (i buy vinyl, or with a push, CD). > > OR...is it a different market that sits alongside vinyl, so broadening > the market out for these things? > > Also, when people pay for the DLs of these things they just go on > Soulseek don't they? (normally if it was a vinyl rip on soulseek then > it could be viewed as a promo device as people wnat the physical > article if they like it....but a download??). > > It might be I'm an old fogey who's obsessed with buying somat for his > money and having racks of vinyl sat at home. :) > > Sorry for the waffle but lunchtime discussion got me thinking about this. > > robin... >
