Re: New iTunes and new iPod's

On Tuesday, Apr 29, 2003, at 09:34 Australia/Perth, Onno Benschop wrote: A song costs $US 0.99 A CD contains ~ 17 tracks, or $US 16.83 If you check the music shop you'll see that you can buy a whole "CD/album" for $US9.99 shaving ~40% off your calcs at this stage. But when/if Apple Aus gets

Re: New iTunes and new iPod's

Ok, lets just do the maths on that. We'll do it first in US dollars, because the number is one that has been quoted: A song costs $US 0.99 A CD contains ~ 17 tracks, or $US 16.83 ?> The current exchange rate is ~ 0.60 Thus a CD worth of songs costs: $AUD 28.05

Re: New iTunes and new iPod's

prescript: OK so some other people have shot off stuff saying some of the same but bear with me. Ok, lets just do the maths on that. We'll do it first in US dollars, because the number is one that has been quoted: A song costs $US 0.99 A CD contains ~ 17 tracks, or $US 16.83

Re: New iTunes and new iPod's

And finally, for the audio purists among us. We're not talking about CD quality music here, we're talking compressed MPEG. A CD quality download is 650Mb, thus you can only download 3 CD's for your $60. Making the download cost $20 per CD. It would also take nearly 7.5 hours per CD on your 256K AD

Re: New iTunes and new iPod's

Agreed that it is not really that cheap compared to a CD. But more flexible pricing, convenience of downloading the songs that you like, remember you have to purchase the whole CD of which you might only like 3 out of 17, does sometimes outweighs buying a CD. Also this is the first major music

Re: New iTunes and new iPod's

Then again, you can save on those audio CDs where you might actually only want to buy one or a few tracks, not the whole CD. There may also be "big picture" savings to the community by a reduction in freight and manufacturing through switching to electronic distribution. -- Andrew Nielsen

Re: New iTunes and new iPod's

On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 02:17, Daniel wrote: > And at AUD$1.50 a song approx, with ease of use, access to 200,000 songs > plus more added all the time,...I think it will go well. (Hopefully > it will get here faster than the iPhoto Book section!) ;o) Ok, lets just do the maths on that. We'll do i

Re: New iTunes and new iPod's

Steve did it. Over 200,000 songs for 99 cents (US) each. Amazing. New version of iTunes with Rendezvous enabled playlist functions. New iPod's. "Weight less than two CD's" according to Steve. Woohoo!!! Yep,..downside,iTunes Music Store not available in Australia as yet,..but when it ge

New iTunes and new iPod's

Steve did it. Over 200,000 songs for 99 cents (US) each. Amazing. New version of iTunes with Rendezvous enabled playlist functions. New iPod's. "Weight less than two CD's" according to Steve. Woohoo!!!