Music Labels to Offer Enhanced Album Format to Compete With Apple's 'Cocktail'?

[twoodcc]

great. another format war. if it doesn't work in itunes, i doubt it will catch on

 

[satcomer]

If Apple wants a "killer" iTunes feature how about automatic Lyrics?

 

[marksman]

What I take from it is that they are creating digital "CD Cases".

Whats the point, is all I have to say.

This.

Reading the description, who do they think wants that?

Do they actually know how people use and listen to music?

Jesus. They are dumb.

 

[marksman]

I like the idea of being able to view liner notes and lyrics from directly within iTunes. Imagine listening to a song and being able to see the lyrics at the same time. That could be really cool. What the record industry is proposing, however, sounds cumbersome and awful.

I can do that with the simplify media app on the iphone and it is nice.

I do wish it was built into the ipod/iphone.


The record companies want to raise their average ticket price because the whole market is moving to singles which means they can't force people to buy 2 songs they like and 8 songs they hate, any longer. As people just cherry pick the songs they want.

Boo freaking hoo.

If they think adding this crap is going to entice people to buy songs they don't want to listen to, they are mistaken.

If they want to increase their ticket price and pawn bad songs off on people, make a full cd cost $4.95 or $5.95. I guarantee you would raise who album sales significantly. Telling me you want $10.00, $12.00 or $15.00 for 2 songs I like and a 1983 Windows 3.1-like pop-up to show me a picture of an artist, sorry, most people will not go for that, no can do.

 

[DELLsFan]

And there's no doubt it will have it's own proprietary DRM, and probably some advertising as well. "Your music will begin after this message from our sponsor". Maybe they will even add a "call home" to go to their servers and make sure you have a valid purchase (so they can delete it if it's not valid) and interrupt your music with some new advertising. blah.

+1

Count on this. I hate the record labels. A LOT.