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iPod no Beatles in iTMS?
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Sony sells Music in http://www.connect.com/ + MP3 WalkmanBenjamin said:
Apple sells iTunes + iPod
but you can see lots of music labled Sony BMG in iTMS
Yes they do but the thing is that Apple Corps the music company holds the rights to the beatles music. When Apple Computers the computer company came along Apple Corps (Apple Records) sued them for name usage, Apple Computers promised not to be in the music industry but well thats now moot. Thats why no beatles music.
It will be a Long and Winding Road before you see The Beatles on iTMS or any other download service. Something about their catalog still selling very well. I'll tell you this, the first service to acquire the right will be Fixing a Hole in online music libraries.
KKKL said:
Not here you don't. Sony-BMG haven't signed onto the iTMS Australia and as such there are no Sony artists available to download from iTunes here in Oz.
Basically the people who give permission to the record labels to distribute online have said "NO" to everybody. I don't know if it's true of everywhere but you will not find any Beatles music in any electronic jukebox in the country, they are however allowed on Karaoke machines because the music performed isn't the original.
There won't be any Beatles on iTunes until Apple Corp, Apple Comp, EMI and whoever owns the rights to the catalogue finally sort out what's going on. Apple has been trying to court Beatles music for years with the "John Lennon Music Bus" thing where kiddies can record their own music and produce it all in one go in the back of a fully kitted out bus that goes from school to school.
Just have to deal with it I'm afraid. Nobody else has The Beatles either.
The Beatles' material is in pretty bad shape at the moment, which could be one reason as to why their back-catalogue hasn't been issued on iTMS. The stereo mixes are shocking (just listen to Eleanor Rigby on the CD release of Revolver compared to the mix on the Yellow Submarine Songbook) and the mastering is terrible (the records have that 'early-days-of-CD' sound - they are quiet and lack 'fullness'). The Free As A Bird and Real Love singles sound the way the digital-Beatles should sound.
I would guess that someone will realise how much money can be made from remixing, remastering, and reissuing Beatles records and then we'll see the lovable moptops on iTMS
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I would guess that someone will realise how much money can be made from remixing, remastering, and reissuing Beatles records and then we'll see the lovable moptops on iTMS
.Could be becuase Sony accept that they'll lose sales of their music if they don't support iTMS and also accept that to try and battle against the iTMS/iPod would be foolish in the long run (not that in the future the market might not just level out).KKKL said:
Whereas Apple Corp. think the 'cost' of not selling their music now will be insignificant if they when their battle of ownership of the Apple brand and get awarded a cut of all those past and future iPod/iMac/PowerBook/iBook/Newton etc.
