Comments on: Live Music Comes to iTunes

By: Kim TMV

Kim TMV — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:53:35 +0000

This looks like a great service, hopefully it will live up to expectations.

Here at The Music Void we have also explored this new venture:
http://bit.ly/4KXm3W

By: John

John — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:33:53 +0000

Audio of live performances tends to be pretty poor compared to the studio albums but on video it is a chance to see the group in action. I only have a few live CDs, but many live concert videos.

By: Tabby

Tabby — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:35:47 +0000

Awesome!

By: Sharninder

Sharninder — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:47:50 +0000

About time now !

Are they also going to get videos of live performances or is it just music ?

By: pingsense

pingsense — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:47:09 +0000

the idea of bringing live music on ipod is just awesome. searching from such a huge library of live music is gr8 but paying for live performances may not be such a popular idea such as podcasting . watching or listening a live performance on on ipod is just not as good as the actual one . .

By: Adam Wexler

Adam Wexler — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:23:21 +0000

i believe monetizing the live music experience is one of the biggest opportunities for growth in the music industry heading into 2010.

i think there’s an important distinction to be made though…plenty of fans that go to the show will walk away wanting to “relive” the experience, as long as it wasn’t (i.e.) your standard Britney show from the night before.

if the venues can provide great sound recording equipment, it can spell future revenue opportunities for everyone involved.

-adam

By: George

George — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:11:20 +0000

Drew, thanks for the tip! This will keep me in music for years (literally). Kicking off with Cornell ’77…

By: max31

max31 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:55:20 +0000

I was impressed by the U2 Rose Bowl concert from Youtube, I saw the replay several times. The result was that I bought one of the $95 seats for the June 16th show in Oakland, the first rock concert ticket I’ve bought since Jefferson Starship in the late 70s.

But what if I had to pay to see the U2 Rose Bowl show on iTunes? I would not have paid for it, probably, which means I would not have bought the U2 ticket.

That said, most concert goers no doubt will pay $10, let’s say, to see their favorite band, especially if they couldn’t get tickets. Livenation is going to make a bunch of money from this. Overall good development.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:56:12 +0000

So its now an honour to be able to pay Itunes for recordings that are circulated by fans for free and easily availble worldwide with current technology – and search enabled by google? And the high quality recordings that fans make now “upgraded” to 128kbps Mp3 or AAC files?

Wow, what a “bargain”- no thanks.

By: Drew

Drew — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:32:53 +0000

I love live music, but I’m not going to pay Apple for it, when I can choose from almost 71000 shows from nearly 4000 bands, all for free, over at the Internet Archive’s Live Music Archive. And that doesn’t even count the Grateful Dead section, which has nearly every Dead show ever recorded.