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It's called a backup, bro.

I have all my original CD's, both CD and CD+G.. but I couldn't even begin to calculate how many hundreds of hours i've spent over the years ripping, sorting, and naming those files.. weeding out duplicates, etc.

It's one of the main reasons you can't download music directly to your iPod/iPhone. My downloading the media to your computer, then copying it over to your iPod/iPhone, you have that ever important backup in the event you accidentally drop your iPod in the crapper.

Which reminds me of another big plus to purchasing music from iTunes: If for some reason your computer AND your iPod dies, you can send a message to iTunes support and you can re-download every song you ever purchased from them.

Try loosing (or breaking) one of your CD's and then having the record store give you a new replacement disc for free with nothing in hand but a receipt.

Doesn't really apply to the likes of SoundChoice or other karaoke track manus, but it certainly is a huge convenience to your average music customer, and yet another perk to go 'discless'.

The sales for the album by Cake was only 44,000 units the lowest ever by a #1 album.


http://www.billboard.com/news/cake-scor ... 9371.story

If the #1 album only gets that much in weekly sales, then a lot of albums are barely getting any sales.

The weekly album sales for the whole industry was only 4.9 million units. Basically that translates to less than 2 people in 100 in the US buying a CD last week.

No way the music industry can survive on sales like that alone.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6400217.stm

Just what is it we can't do on our phone.
No Johnny don't tell us.

Me... and no

.......even with as little as mine might be.........I still couldn't do that....

Here you go, you could have your clubs pay you through your phone: https://squareup.com/

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DJ Tony
Let It Rip Karaoke

Media isn't the issue for manufacturers. The media is only how the choose to deliver the product. The record labels have figured out that the volume of making it inexpensive and available through digital outlets actually makes it easier to produce and distribute the actual property. The license for the IP is the issue manufacturers have to struggle with.

It's fine to quote numbers indicating that percentage of the US that doesn't purchase items off the internet. Are they the target customers for the karaoke manufacturers? My day job is video games. The physical media requirements for even consoles is disappearing as we find optimal ways to meet the customers needs. We'll eventually stop printing disks once our customers are all connected.


I'd happily download all my music today and use a digital ID like they Valve's Steam service does with games. Never worry about backups and simply have access to the properties so long as I have a network connection. Obviously make them available offline, but distribution is done digitally.

There are issues to work out but resistance just puts you further behind the customer cycle.