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Amazon Hits iTunes Again With $0.99 Lady Gaga Album, Qualifies for Cloud Drive Storage Upgrade

I bought it for the 0.99$, but Amazon's service seems to have issues. Only 4 songs have downloaded. The other tracks seem to be stuck in an endless waiting period.

Got to say, if this is the norm' for Amazon's music service, I wouldn't be buying more. And by reading reviews on the site, seems many people are having issues. Looks like this might backfire on them a bit.
 
VenusianSky said:
Geez people, Amazon is only doing the $.99 gaga album just for today. No need to spin this into some major anti-itunes campaign.
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Anti-itunes or not, it's definitely an attempt at increasing Amazon's marketshare.

How many people intended to purchase this album today? Seeing as today was the release day, probably a ton. And how many of those people woke up to an e-mail in their inbox from Amazon (whether directly or forwarded from a friends) that offered the album for a buck. How many of those people then got on twitter or facebook and told all their friends? It was a great move on Amazon's part.

Amazon's goal at the moment has to be to remind the average consumer to compare prices at iTunes and Amazon before purchasing MP3s. This will go a long way towards doing that.
 
briand05 said:
This is a great deal on a great album.

As for the haters: I'd rather listen to this than that bland hipster bs that the internet armchair haters like. :rolleyes:
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LOL, "bland hipster bs" is exactly what her music is. :rolleyes:
 
BLACKFRIDAY said:
I am not understanding the strategy behind such a feature in the cloud storage where you can stream tonnes of data, but ultimately, you end up stopping at 500MB/month. :(

What am I gonna do with 20GB storage of music in the cloud when I can only stream 500MB of it?

It's better I transfer 5-6 of music to my phone and then keep it on a regular sync and so on... :|.

If there needs to be a revolution in cloud storage, there's gotta be two things.

1. Unlimited Data
2. Revolutionary Cloud Capabilities.

I don't know who would do that, but I just fail to understand how people are going to benefit from something like this.
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well wouldn't you like a selection of what music you want to listen to... upload 20gb of music and you can choose which albums you want to stream at different times without having to go back and manage your cloud selection.

Also, I don't think a 300mb song uses 300mb of data to stream. (someone correct me if i'm mistaken)
 
rorschach said:
http://www.amazon.com/Born-This-Way...?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&filterBy=addOneStar

Lots of people claiming they aren't getting the whole album + other problems.
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Wow... looks to be a pretty serious issue.

This definitely seems like it was rushed. I think it lends credence to the idea that Amazon is nervous about Apple's move to the cloud. It makes me think that Apple's service must be pretty impressive, and I'm more excited now than I was before to see what they unveil.
 
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Undercutting, and price wars are the best way to quickly get the worst services as no money is left to innovate, nurture, and develop.... Short-termism is not how Apple will lead.
Meanwhile, it looks like its gonna be a threeway slugfest between Apple, Google, and Amazon for control of our digital lives with Facebook trying to muscle in, and MS desperate to get back.
 
not trying to bash Amazon's great deal but if all they deliver to people is mp3s than its honestly not worth it, id rather have a lossless audio file than lossy mp3...i mean most consumers dont care to recognize the difference between lossy and lossless not that most know what that means..its a shame really but not something (mp3s, not this specific album) id purchase to put in my library.
still interesting tactics, but seems that its going to cost amazon more to do things like this since they have no viable means in that market...iTunes/Apple has a lot more pull in that area and amazon i think is just trying to throw things and hope they stick long enough to become valid,
 
Kaibelf said:
Musician, –noun
1. a person who makes music a profession, especially as a performer of music.

She writes all of her own songs. She sings live every time. She's a classically trained pianist and dancer. She endlessly tours, appears, and promotes her songs and brand. She plays instruments on stage. It's pretty safe to say that, regardless of if you buy the albums or listen to it on the radio, she's about 1000x the musician that most "artists" out there are. Who exactly do YOU listen to that you call a "musician?" :cool: That's why she made $90m last year and has fans lining up to get a photo with her (which she spend hours accommodating for people), and why you're here acting like YOU are too good for HER. Just sayin'.
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+10000000.......

Paws up!
 
xxBURT0Nxx said:
agreed, can't believe iTunes is the number one music retailer...

I guess its still too much for the general public to buy music from other places (amazon) and import them to iTunes, so they buy from iTunes for the convenience?
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You're right...last time I checked Amazon even has a program that ports their songs to Itunes for you! Amazon is very competitive in terms of price and quality...just gotta make the leap
 
grmatt said:
Wow... looks to be a pretty serious issue.

This definitely seems like it was rushed. I think it lends credence to the idea that Amazon is nervous about Apple's move to the cloud. It makes me think that Apple's service must be pretty impressive, and I'm more excited now than I was before to see what they unveil.
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And Apple's servers have never been crunched? I've had plenty of issues with itunes downloading material, apps and of course, updates. This is no different except this isn't an Amazon message board LOL
 
ZMacintosh said:
not trying to bash Amazon's great deal but if all they deliver to people is mp3s than its honestly not worth it, id rather have a lossless audio file than lossy mp3.
still interesting tactics, i mean most consumers dont care to recognize the difference between lossy and lossless not that most know what that means..its a shame really but not something (mp3s, not this specific album) id purchase to put in my library.
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Interestingly enough, Amazon's selling the CD for 8 bucks. Still cheaper than iTunes.
 
Kaibelf said:
She writes all of her own songs. She sings live every time. She's a classically trained pianist and dancer. She endlessly tours, appears, and promotes her songs and brand. She plays instruments on stage. It's pretty safe to say that, regardless of if you buy the albums or listen to it on the radio, she's about 1000x the musician that most "artists" out there are. Who exactly do YOU listen to that you call a "musician?" :cool: That's why she made $90m last year and has fans lining up to get a photo with her (which she spend hours accommodating for people), and why you're here acting like YOU are too good for HER. Just sayin'.
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Everything you said here is true.

Also true: Her music sucks.
 
Kaibelf said:
Musician, –noun
1. a person who makes music a profession, especially as a performer of music.

She writes all of her own songs. She sings live every time. She's a classically trained pianist and dancer. She endlessly tours, appears, and promotes her songs and brand. She plays instruments on stage. It's pretty safe to say that, regardless of if you buy the albums or listen to it on the radio, she's about 1000x the musician that most "artists" out there are. Who exactly do YOU listen to that you call a "musician?" :cool: That's why she made $90m last year and has fans lining up to get a photo with her (which she spend hours accommodating for people), and why you're here acting like YOU are too good for HER. Just sayin'.
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I can't stand any of her music but you can't deny her musical talent and her complete adoration and humble nature she has with all her fans. The hate on her is unnecessary and ignorant.
 
grmatt said:
Wow... looks to be a pretty serious issue.

This definitely seems like it was rushed. I think it lends credence to the idea that Amazon is nervous about Apple's move to the cloud. It makes me think that Apple's service must be pretty impressive, and I'm more excited now than I was before to see what they unveil.
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Thats pretty normal. Every blog, discount site, macrumors, engadget and others picked it up and it spreads like wildfire. millions of people probably tried to buy it at once creating a spike. I just bought the album 5 minutes ago and have no issues whatsoever. 20GB upgrade for 99 cents, can't beat that
 
huck500 said:
I'm not a fan, but I think bland, hipster bs is actually exactly what her music isn't. Hipsters tend to focus on independent music.
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Exactly. The usual criticism of hipsters is that they are hypocrites who will bail on a band that becomes too popular.

I can't imagine any of my hipster friends drawing their latest slice-of-life comic book ashcan while listening to Lady Gaga albums.
 
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