2 posts tagged “napster”
After a morning of present opening, discussions of The Godfather of Soul, breakfast and dinner cooking, bread making and game playing with my sister, I left my parents' home in the afternoon with them using the opera browser on the internet channel of the Wii via their wireless connection watching James Brown videos via youtube.
We'd just finished making their Miis. They'd already cracked up at my sister and I playing tennis like fools and my sister's kick boxing style of Wii boxing. My mom had provided tips on how to better cast my fishing rod on The Legend of Zelda but at 1:30 in the afternoon, we were mesmerized. James Brown was performing Sex Machine (a late 70s James Brown) in full screen on their large screen television.
We had a discussion about Youtube and why they aren't the new Napster. We talked about how this relates directly to what I do at work every day in practical terms that they actually got. It was one of the few times that I actually got to have a conversation that was really about what I do and not just what my company does.
Merry Christmas, Nintendo. I *heart* you.
So iTunes sales appear healthy, fueled by sales of new iPods. However, once that growth slows, Apple will need to do a better job of selling more songs to existing iPod owners. The inability to play those songs on non-iPod devices in the future and the fear of losing your music collection once you exceed the five authorized computers you can share your iTunes songs on might have something to do with the lack of enthusiasm once the initial novelty wears off.
- iTunes Sales are Just Fine, Thank You by Erik Schonfeld, The.next.net, 12.14.06
I've gone back on my claim last year that I was switching to strictly digital music and am now purchasing CDs again (as well as downloading un-DRMed music from services like eMusic, subscription stuff from URGE and the freebies from napster and iTunes). There are several reasons, vox being one of them. I music blog here pretty consistently and want my tracks to be tagged the way I want them and to have the artwork included and to be playable. Apple's m4p files are out of the question and their m4a recommended file import format doesn't tag in the smart ways that mp3 files do. I want to share my music and I want it portable, neither of which is something I can get out of the iTunes store.
Also, I miss album inserts and going to the record store. I used to be at Amoeba or other record joints at least once a month, now it's like once a season. That's not right. It means I don't catch music out of the corner of my eye. I've been driven by internet zeitgeist all year and that isn't enough.
So, back to CDs for me.
I'm so old school.
