bakker_be wrote: > As a European music lover, I mostly object to the so-called > "convenience" of iTunes or any other service: it's almost impossible for > me to get good music legally + lossless. Quite a lot of the stuff on > hdtracks for instance is interesting to me, but strictly speaking I'm > forbidden to buy it, as I'm not a US citizen. The offerings of Linn etc > are somewhat too esoteric for my tastes, and there's only so much > classical music I can take. > This means that the music industry is forcing me to keep buying physical > media, which I then have to rip, tag, scan for ReplayGain, scan for > MusicIP ... I still do this, but a whole lot less than I'd like to, > because: > -I only have so much storage space for physical media > -It's not convenient > -I can't buy from the comfort of my couch at night when the kids are > asleep ... > > This issue isn't caused by the "industry" alone, the artists as well > play a role in it. Bands all over the world tweet about the release of > their new albums, and about when they'll be available in iTunes, but > when you directly ask them about buying in FLAC, there's nothing but > radio silence. Metallica is (partly) an exception to this: almost any > show of the last 10 years or so is available for sale as a soundboard > recording, in both FLAC & MP3, right on their tour site, a couple of > days after the performance. No studio material however. I've bought a > lot of those already, most recently the recording of the show I went to > in Belgium on May 28th and the 4 shows for their 30th birthday. > I think we (the public in general, Squeezebox users in particular) > should all begin pestering any musician we can get access too to begin > making lossless files available. The success of iTunes proves that > people still want to pay, but what if nobody sells what you want to buy?
+1 Same same and add that I have to mail order everything , the town I live in does not have decent record store. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95541 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
