How much would you pay for MP3s?

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: jonmullen
Lets see if I had to pay $.50 for every mp3 I had I would be paying over $3000 I don't think I like that idea.

well presumably you don't listen to all of them, and you would be more selective.

it would be nice to be able to get crappy 96 bitrate mp3s for free, then pay 50 cents to get 320 or something.

 

[GiLtY]

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: jonmullen
Lets see if I had to pay $.50 for every mp3 I had I would be paying over $3000 I don't think I like that idea.

well presumably you don't listen to all of them, and you would be more selective.

it would be nice to be able to get crappy 96 bitrate mp3s for free, then pay 50 cents to get 320 or something.

I agree

 

[Tripleshot]

Paying anything close to a dollar a song is the equivelant of going to walmart and buying the CD.:Q

Not in my world. $.10/song---maybe. $.25/song with guarentee $.20 goes to artist.

I wonder how much an artist really gets from sales of CD's under label and contract with the recording companies?

:moon:

 

[AvesPKS]

Originally posted by: atom
...you already can buy MP3's legally. Emusic.com has a monthly subscription and you can DL as many songs as you want a month. 9.99 a month if you sign up for a year, 15 bucks a month otherwise. I only wish they would use better quality, 128 kbps isn't enough (at least that was the quality last time I tried it out).

I was going to bring this up...I was thinking about doing this for completeness, as I saw a CCR box set on there. Then I did a search for The Police...and found nothing. No Police? No thank you! If I could pay $10 a month to download any songs I want, I would go for it. Otherwise, no.
:|

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: NuclearFusi0n
zilch.
lossless compression, pay per song plz.

FLAC rules!

<-- listening to my 700-CD FLAC jukebox now (Goodness - Thesedays), another 300 CDs left to rip.

 

[bleeb]

why pay a few cents, when you can get it for free!!??

 

[Atrail]

Originally posted by: Tripleshot
Paying anything close to a dollar a song is the equivelant of going to walmart and buying the CD.:Q

Not in my world. $.10/song---maybe. $.25/song with guarentee $.20 goes to artist.

I wonder how much an artist really gets from sales of CD's under label and contract with the recording companies?

:moon:

Well not exactly. I wouldn't have to get off my ass...



Once you figure in the cost that you have to burn it to a CD .99 cents does seem too high.

 

[jurzdevil]

id buy the uncompressed .wav and compress it myself.

 

[Gunther]

.50, must be lossless, must be able to transfer to any device I want, must be able to burn the music as many times as I want, must be able to recompress the music to any format and bitrate I want, and I must be allowed to dl the song as many times as I want.

 

[JoPh]

Originally posted by: Eli
I wouldn't.

 

[isekii]

well if downloading mp3 for $$$

then we gotta factor in the price for broadband also.

plus what happens if your computer crashes ?
are they gonna keep record of all the files that you downloaded and allow you to download them again ?

 

[calpha]

.05 - .10 for the .wav. But I wouldn't pay any unless I knew that the majority of it went to the artist.

 

[human2k]

$0.00

And thats me being generous!

 

[VBboy]

Originally posted by: human2k
$0.00

And thats me being generous!

In other words, you want to get paid for each MP3 you get?! :Q

 

I can't believe you think you can tell the difference from CD to a 192 bit or better mp3.....

amish

Ok kiddies its time for another round of teaching you hosers logical implications.

So, by your logic, if I only sell you HALF of a car, but you can't tell the difference until you do something like, say, drive it.

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: SammySon

I can't believe you think you can tell the difference from CD to a 192 bit or better mp3.....

amish

Ok kiddies its time for another round of teaching you hosers logical implications.

So, by your logic, if I only sell you HALF of a car, but you can't tell the difference until you do something like, say, drive it.

Everyone can tell the diff between 192 and CD, if you use any decent headphones/tweeters you'll notice the background noise (quiet intros etc) get garbled a lot

 

[machintos]

25 cents

 

[BD231]

www.emusic.com - 10 bucks a month for all the mp3 cds you want, which I pay.

 

[Zugzwang152]

$5 per album sounds right. although I would rather support my favorite artists by attending their concerts.

 

[newt]

5 cents per song, that way i wouldn't mind downloading something just to see if i like it. 1 dollar for trying 20 songs, sounds reasonable to me.

 

[wyvrn]

well if downloading mp3 for $$$

then we gotta factor in the price for broadband also.

plus what happens if your computer crashes ?
are they gonna keep record of all the files that you downloaded and allow you to download them again ?

Imo these are unreasonable demands. Why? Well, when driving to buy your favorite cd, do you get a discount from Virgin Records for your gas, wear, and tear? Plus what happens if you drop the cd? Can you take it back to Virgin Records and they give you a new one?

Why are you asking for things you wouldn't be able to get otherwise?

 

[erikiksaz]

I'd pay nothing. I'd rather buy cds

 

[slag]

5 cents a song, max and here's why.

I might listen to it 10-30 times MAX at which time I would listen to something newer and more recent and forget about this one. Thats how I am with music, so why would i want to invest more in it?

 

[Rudee]

10 for a nickel.

 

[Colt45]

$0