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Green Day and Red Hot Chili Peppers on iTMS

Green Day's been there since the beginning. And cheap too; almost half their albums are $7.99

Personally, I'm glad they finally got The All-American Rejects.
 
has anyone noticed that Pearl Jam are linkig their music to the iTMS? that is certainly a great thing but...

Gracenote, the owners of the CDDB that is used by almost every MP3 program out there to get track info are linking alot of their results on their website to Napster!!! This is terrible news for iTMS!

why didn't Apple pull this deal off?
 
Originally posted by vanillamike
Being in graphic design I value the cover art sometimes as much as the music.

Mike
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I totaly understand what you are saying... they are a very important aspect of albums. what i want to know is this:

if a band wants to release an album exclusively for the iTMS, will they still bother producing album covers at all? this will be a sad day and it is this one aspect of the whole digital music downloading thing that I fear will have an adverse effect in the long run.

that being said... I spent the other day finding album covers for every one of my song files and it was the best fun i've had in a long time...

I used a prog called Clutter...

cheers
 
Originally posted by iChan
has anyone noticed that Pearl Jam are linkig their music to the iTMS? that is certainly a great thing but...

Gracenote, the owners of the CDDB that is used by almost every MP3 program out there to get track info are linking alot of their results on their website to Napster!!! This is terrible news for iTMS!

why didn't Apple pull this deal off?
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that's just more money put into the iTMS that would be lost... iTMS is already taken by apple at a loss to sell their iPods. it is certainly a generally attractive program, but i don't think they are using iTMS to get more people to use iTMS. they are using it to get more people into iPods. i don't think paying to have CDDB link to iTMS would be very helpful. it would be somewhat helpful, of course, but probably not worth the money.
 
Last I heard iTMS had something like 70% of the music download market.... I wouldn't expect this to change significantly in the near future, even with all the new services coming online. As Jobs recently stated, it is a mystery how any of these companies plan on making any money when iTMS, the biggest and most well-put-together of them all is only a loss leader. I expect to see a lot of buisness flameouts as companies come online with a music store and then lose their shirts; this is gonna be kinda like a dot.com boom... lots of hype because its the cool new thing, followed by a lot of thinning of the pack that will leave only the big boys that can do it right, like Apple. :cool:
 
Re: Green Day

Originally posted by mfethers
Strangely, Green Day has been on ITunes since day one. I remember distinctly downloading 2 songs on the Greatest Hits album on the first day, because I didn't want to buy the whole thing.

Also, RHCP had Californication up for about one day a few months ago. I downloaded it, but then it disappeared.

Interestingly, I heard on the radio this morning that Napster-slayers Metallica are now selling their music as downloads through BuyMusic, but only as albums.
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I think I saw Green Day since day one. It was probably one of the first bands I checked for.

I can also say I did see Californiacation for a couple of days then it disappeared.
 
Originally posted by TomSmithMacEd
No matter what you think of the bands it is a good thing. Bring on more music on iTMS!
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Thank you.

When people are saying [artist(s)'s name here] sucks or doesn't deserve to be on iTMS, they are only stating an opinion, and not a fact. Others are just sore their artists decided to not sell their music. Boohoo. Get over it! These people are opening themselves to a flame war. What makes them the judge of all music in the world? I don't mind people stating, I like [artist(s)'s name here], but if you're going to be an a--hole and bash some artist, just stop talking!

I just thought of something... Let's say a certain artist of ours is under contract with a different record company for their international CDs. You think there's a chance we'll see them at a, say, Canada, Europe, or Japan iTMS? Think about it. Let's say your favorite artist isn't listed in the iTMS because of one evil record company. They have a separate contract for their US releases and European releases. Apple goes to that European record company and gets them to sign up for an iTMS Europe. The European record company happily joins and BAM! Your artist is selling music for 99¢... or euro.

You think instead of just Music Store in the sidebar of iTunes, we'll see things like Music Store (Europe), Music Store (Canada), Music Store (Japan), etc? It'd be awesome having a larger selection for international music. And some of the foreigners here could their hands on their favorite songs from their motherland! Apple, hear me out on this one! :D

Don't you like how some artists that had iTunes "exclusives" all of a sudden have nothing new to show? I'm talking about artists that just recently came out with a CD or have released something a while since iTMS. Odd...

Just some things to think about.
 
Hey I'm a music snob and I have to say both the Chilis (bar their current weak 'pop' album) and Green day are excellent bands.

It'll be good when all of their work is available legally 'online'.
 
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