does anyone actually pay to download music?

RainMaker

endacl wrote: »

It used to be play+record! Technology sure do be moving' on! I'll never catch up....

:-)

Play+Record+Pause !

The un-pause when the DJ stops talking!!

Momento Mori

Yeah, use Frostwire if you want your PC to fall apart in a few months.

Keepvid. Use it.

MaxSteele

Why would I pay :pac: for music when I have Youtube converter ?

garra

Nah I dont pay for downloaded music, i support bands through gig attendance. The odd time I will buy an album from a small-time /obscure artist, which has as much to do with not being able to download their work as any altruistic reasons.

666irishguy

I'd buy the CD in a shop if I was fan or it was a new band. I've downloaded a few back catalogues without paying and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Record companies should just come out and admit that the reason they are squirming about downloading is the fact that nobody is going to buy the hugely overpriced back catalogues of the likes of The Beatles or Zeppelin if they are for free.

Spiritual

I pay for music downloads. I believe in getting paid for my work, why should I deny others the right to earn from their work.

BillyMitchel

I have paid for it every single time over the course of maybe the last 4 years. Used to download illegally a lot when limewire was about but since iTunes is just a click away on my iPod i just use that..

Simplez

Ash.J.Williams

lots of people saying they buy "new bands"....strange how new bands are selling f*ck all then!

Sorcha16

SunnyDub1 wrote: »

My bother however has thousands of songs on his ipod and has purchased them all from itunes :rolleyes:

Am I some sort of idiot for also being one of those people?

seven_eleven

hahahaha! using itunes? what a terrible experience.

Spiritual

Sorcha16 wrote: »

Am I some sort of idiot for also being one of those people?

I must be too, all the music on my Ipod is paid for either CD transfer or download.
It must not be cool to admit this but feck it I am not cool.

Spiritual

seven_eleven wrote: »

hahahaha! using itunes? what a terrible experience.

How? I have never had a problem with it.

Sorcha16

Spiritual wrote: »

I must be too, all the music on my Ipod is paid for either CD transfer or download.
It must not be cool to admit this but feck it I am not cool.

Me either, nor do I care. Though it might be a little silly of us to pay for something if we can source it for free?

I just don't know how

seven_eleven

Spiritual wrote: »

How? I have never had a problem with it.

Thats what you think!

Spiritual

seven_eleven wrote: »

Thats what you think!

Would you care to expand on your post?

Inscrutable

Casillas wrote: »

Thanks thread, you led me to Spotify!

Bye, bye Grooveshark!

I've been paying for the Grooveshark mobile app for a year or so. My first impression of the android spotify app is that it's not up to much. Spotify premium is €10/mo while GS is €7.

Lenin Skynard

Spiritual wrote: »

It must not be cool to admit this but feck it I am not cool.

The software is poor, the music is low quality and overpriced and you can't transfer it anywhere else. Nothing to do with being cool/uncool.

areyawell

I know "people" who never paid for a film, game, music, sky sports, pay per view, tv series in there life. Media player or laptop attached to tv is the job

Spiritual

Lenin Skynard wrote: »

The software is poor, the music is low quality and overpriced and you can't transfer it anywhere else. Nothing to do with being cool/uncool.

I would have to disagree with you there, I find Itunes to be perfect for my needs and as I only need it on my laptop and Ipod it's a very simple process.

Boombastic

Yes Mr. Sherlock, I do

fouga

Spiritual wrote: »

I pay for music downloads. I believe in getting paid for my work, why should I deny others the right to earn from their work.

Some artists earn $50 million a year....they make enough money as is, so do all the record labels. It not as if they are struggling to pay bills!!!!

fouga

Sorcha16 wrote: »

Am I some sort of idiot for also being one of those people?

im afraid you are, how much did that cost you over the years???

Lenin Skynard

This process is perfect for the music industry IMO, especially if the music is available in FLAC format. Artists would make a lot more money and cut out a lot more middlemen if this became more common.

Spiritual

fouga wrote: »

Some artists earn $50 million a year....they make enough money as is, so do all the record labels. It not as if they are struggling to pay bills!!!!

That is idiotic reasoning. My local shop makes a good profit should that entitle me to rob it?

fouga

Spiritual wrote: »

That is idiotic reasoning. My local shop makes a good profit should that entitle me to rob it?

can you copy and paste the stuff in your shop for free and distribute it to as many people as you want. if they really cared they would make the music files that they cant be copied or ripped

Sorcha16

fouga wrote: »

im afraid you are, how much did that cost you over the years???

My integrity is priceless :cool:

BillyMitchel

God I just looked on my iPod, 1186 purchased songs from Itunes. Feel a bit of a tit now

Spiritual

fouga wrote: »

can you copy and paste the stuff in your shop for free and distribute it to as many people as you want. if they really cared they would make the music files that they cant be copied or ripped

Is this your justification?

endacl

Not coming down on either side of the debate. A question occurs to me though...

Where are all these bajillions of tracks missing 'from', exactly?

If I for example, download Album x from Mr Bono & Co, and immediately email him a copy of what I downloaded with an apology, have I returned it?

Don't forget folks. Photocopying is killing printed music!

Lenin Skynard

endacl wrote: »

Not coming down on either side of the debate. A question occurs to me though...

Where are all these bajillions of tracks missing 'from', exactly?

If I for example, download Album x from Mr Bono & Co, and immediately email him a copy of what I downloaded with an apology, have I returned it?

Don't forget folks. Photocopying is killing printed music!

I just stole your post, reproduced it and re-distributed it!

endacl

Lenin Skynard wrote: »

I just stole your post, reproduced it and re-distributed it!

Go for it dude! Its only 1's and 0's.

RGDATA!

Lenin Skynard wrote: »

The software is poor, the music is low quality and overpriced and you can't transfer it anywhere else. Nothing to do with being cool/uncool.

not crazy about the software - i'll give you that.

however, you're wrong about the 'you can't transfer it anywhere else' - there are no restrictions on itunes downloads any more.

also for a yearly sub you can upload your entire library to icloud, whether the songs were bought there or not originally. this allowed me to increase the quality of thousands of old mp3s I had.

disagree with the quality argument too - it's 320kbps, which is not FLAC but not ****, and i would bet that >90% people would not be able to distinguish a difference between that and FLAC, and certainly not on an average speaker set.

Sorcha16

endacl wrote: »

Where are all these bajillions of tracks missing 'from', exactly?If I for example, download Album x from Mr Bono & Co, and immediately email him a copy of what I downloaded with an apology, have I returned it?

Don't be silly, Bono doesn't want his music back from you. He just wants the money you owe him for it.

endacl

Sorcha16 wrote: »

Don't be silly, Bono doesn't want his music back from you. He just wants the money you owe him for it.

Purely hypothetical. I don't have any Mr Bono music.

keith_d99

lilybarlean wrote: »

€1 per track to download? :eek: I'll stick to the Russian sites thanks!

You don't buy the music! Well you can if you want, can't see why you would.

It's free if you don't mind ads
€5 a month on your desktop without ads
€10 if you want to listen and download to your mobile.

It's Netflix for music - except it has 99% of all music out there

Neeson

So for free Spotify are you only allowed 20 hours of free listening? If that's the case it's a bit daft. I don't know how these things take off.

latenia

Technology enabled musicians to charge for copies of their music and now technology has taken away that ability-easy come easy go. The ones who suffered the biggest sales drops are the ones who already had vast fortunes while younger bands just have to accept that their future income will be made up of gigs, licensing and merchandise. Record companies have already as good as recognised that music is free through their approval of streaming sites and anyone who pays for music these days is just a rube.

Sorcha16

endacl wrote: »

Purely hypothetical. I don't have any Mr Bono music.

I never claimed you had. You asked a hypothetical question and I gave you a hypothetical answer

gb40

Do you need a FB account to use Spotify?

keith_d99

Neeson wrote: »

So for free Spotify are you only allowed 20 hours of free listening? If that's the case it's a bit daft. I don't know how these things take off.

Why?

For €9.99 a month you listen to whatever you want, wherever you want
All legit - all readily available

No torrents, no synching, no storing

keith_d99

gb40 wrote: »

Do you need a FB account to use Spotify?

You don't - there are ways to sign up without it

ScumLord

I don't listen to music much, I think if I was made pay for it I wouldn't bother at all.

I used to have a last.fm but then I found grooveshark which does the same thing for free. For the rare occasions I do play music that has all I need.

fouga

Spiritual wrote: »

Is this your justification?

yeah it is

Spiritual

fouga wrote: »

yeah it is

OK

fouga

Spiritual wrote: »

OK

what else can I say, its so easy to get it for free today

fouga

Sorcha16 wrote: »

My integrity is priceless :cool:

haha so you dont want to think about it, I wouldnt blame you!!

fouga

BillyMitchel wrote: »

God I just looked on my iPod, 1186 purchased songs from Itunes. Feel a bit of a tit now

haha thankfully I dont know what you mean. I used to pay for CD's and rip them into my pc but then I discovered torrents(kat.ph etc)

Neeson

keith_d99 wrote: »

Why?

For €9.99 a month you listen to whatever you want, wherever you want
All legit - all readily available

No torrents, no synching, no storing

Yeah but sure Grooveshark is free. Maybe spotify has a bit more on it though. But not much unless it's something really obscure.

Mimann

fouga wrote: »

Some artists earn $50 million a year....they make enough money as is, so do all the record labels. It not as if they are struggling to pay bills!!!!

Yes, some being a very small amount in the grand scheme of things, that's the same thing as saying business man in a multimillionaire because Some have been hugely successful and anyway what gives you the right to decide how much a person should earn.

fouga

Mimann wrote: »

Yes, some being a very small amount in the grand scheme of things, that's the same thing as saying business man in a multimillionaire because Some have been hugely successful and anyway what gives you the right to decide how much a person should earn.

dont care about how much they earn, just saying they aren't exactly short on cash.