Comments on: iTunes Plus=Increased album sales (to me) http://gigaom.com/apple/itunes-plusincreased-album-sales-to-me/ Mon, 28 May 2012 09:02:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Eddie Hargreaves http://gigaom.com/apple/itunes-plusincreased-album-sales-to-me/#comment-321192 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:38:50 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/05/30/itunes-plusincreased-album-sales-to-me/#comment-321192 Galley, when you say $4 more, do you mean $4 more than $9.99 or $7.99? Because the album is selling on iTunes for $7.99. Is that still too much for lossy albums?

]]> By: Galley http://gigaom.com/apple/itunes-plusincreased-album-sales-to-me/#comment-321195 Thu, 31 May 2007 23:27:13 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/05/30/itunes-plusincreased-album-sales-to-me/#comment-321195 For only $4 more I got “The Dark Side Of The Moon” in glorious 5.1 surround sound on SACD. $9.99 is still too much for lossy albums.

]]> By: Jay http://gigaom.com/apple/itunes-plusincreased-album-sales-to-me/#comment-321194 Thu, 31 May 2007 15:28:23 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/05/30/itunes-plusincreased-album-sales-to-me/#comment-321194 It is very cool, but according to TUAW our account info is embedded within the m4a. (TUAW Tip: Don’t Torrent That Song… 8:05AM posting, Erica Sadun)

Not that I plan on sharing my music anyway—this is just a heads up.

]]> By: Tom http://gigaom.com/apple/itunes-plusincreased-album-sales-to-me/#comment-321193 Thu, 31 May 2007 11:18:00 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/05/30/itunes-plusincreased-album-sales-to-me/#comment-321193 Can attest to that, I upgraded a bunch of tracks and then bought two entire albums. Hmmmm…what was I thinking?

Ultimately, I believe the real benefit of being able to buy individual tracks will still win out over album sales, that being, most of the time I still only like one, two or maybe three tracks on an album enough to want to listen to them a lot.

]]> By: Louis Gray http://gigaom.com/apple/itunes-plusincreased-album-sales-to-me/#comment-321191 Thu, 31 May 2007 07:53:12 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/05/30/itunes-plusincreased-album-sales-to-me/#comment-321191 I took a look at my iTunes Library, and Apple offered me the option to upgrade 130 tracks for $33.75, but I’m not all that interested. I’ve been happy with iTunes’ quality and haven’t had much need to play tracks outside of iTunes/iPod/Apple TV, where they’ve been thus far.

I’m glad you will benefit from this move, though. Maybe it’s more important than I had thought.

More here: For $33.75, I Could Ditch DRM from 130 iTunes Songs

]]> By: halfeatenfish http://gigaom.com/apple/itunes-plusincreased-album-sales-to-me/#comment-321190 Thu, 31 May 2007 04:52:50 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/05/30/itunes-plusincreased-album-sales-to-me/#comment-321190 I agree.. My collection has 3000+ songs (all Legal!) and today I bought my first ever items from ITS. 2 albums. I bought my last CD a few years back (they got too expensive), and I’ve just been ripping my CDs for music. DRM was the hurdle for me.

Now, I’m really worried now that I’ll start spending too much.

Well done, Apple. You just got a customer who’s been dying to buy music again.

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