As a European music lover, I mostly object to the so-called "convenience" of iTunes or any other service: it's almost impossible for me to get good music legally + lossless. Quite a lot of the stuff on hdtracks for instance is interesting to me, but strictly speaking I'm forbidden to buy it, as I'm not a US citizen. The offerings of Linn etc are somewhat too esoteric for my tastes, and there's only so much classical music I can take. This means that the music industry is forcing me to keep buying physical media, which I then have to rip, tag, scan for ReplayGain, scan for MusicIP ... I still do this, but a whole lot less than I'd like to, because: -I only have so much storage space for physical media -It's not convenient -I can't buy from the comfort of my couch at night when the kids are asleep ...
This issue isn't caused by the "industry" alone, the artists as well play a role in it. Bands all over the world tweet about the release of their new albums, and about when they'll be available in iTunes, but when you directly ask them about buying in FLAC, there's nothing but radio silence. Metallica is (partly) an exception to this: almost any show of the last 10 years or so is available for sale as a soundboard recording, in both FLAC & MP3, right on their tour site, a couple of days after the performance. No studio material however. I've bought a lot of those already, most recently the recording of the show I went to in Belgium on May 28th and the 4 shows for their 30th birthday. I think we (the public in general, Squeezebox users in particular) should all begin pestering any musician we can get access too to begin making lossless files available. The success of iTunes proves that people still want to pay, but what if nobody sells what you want to buy? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bakker_be's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30369 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95541 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
