peterw;329407 Wrote: > In March I announced my PlayLog plugin > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44582 (info page: > http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/PlayLog.html) > I thought there was a chance of actually recouping some money on it -- > one of its features is easy links to search Amazon (well, its US store) > for CDs or MP3s of music you've heard on your Squeezebox. I figured some > folks would surely use PlayLog to track down interesting songs they'd > heard on Internet Radio or music services and buy legit copies of those > songs, or other records. So I applied for an Amazon Associates account > and tagged the links to Amazon. The results? Only a few dozen actual > click throughs to Amazon, and no orders at all. Zero. > > With Amazon only giving me something like $0.04 for every $0.99 MP3 > sale, and cutting no checks until something like $10 (about 250 MP3 > sales), I certainly didn't expect to quit my day job. But in five > months, not a single sale? I wouldn't be surprised if relatively few > folks used PlayLog, but do Squeezebox owners not buy music at Amazon? > Not even the DRM-free MP3s? > > -Peter
Hey Peter, Where I can only speak for myself, Amazon, MP3, not no but hell no. I do not even buy CDs from Amazon, muchless MP3s. All my music if ripped from the actual CD or is a FLAC download. Do people with Squeezeboxes buy MP3s? I bet they do. I would think the biggest seller is iTunes. But my thing is why waste good money buying inferior MP3s when for a few bucks more, one can have the whole CD which is DRM Free and at full resolution when ripped to FLAC! I get most of my new music from YourMusic.Com, off of EBAY, or the CD buying/trading website. -- iPhone *iPhone* 'Last.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/mephone) Media Room: Transporter, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, Ayre MX-R Mono Blocks, Vandersteen Quatro, VeraStarr 6.4SE 6-channel Amp, VCC-5 Reference Center, four VSM-1 Signatures, Runco RS 900 CineWide AutoScope 2.35:1 Living Room: Duet, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1 Bedroom: SB3, NAD C370, Thiel 2.3 Home Office: SB3, Parasound Vamp v.3, VSM-1 Sigs Mobile: SB3, Audioengine A5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51108 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
