The decline of the music biz.

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Interesting article here.

― phil, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Already read it. I think the problem is deeper than that: The record doesn't really signify anything anymore for the consumer. It has no (enhanced) value. This results in all the downloading and recordsales going down. I don't know what the solution is really. I only wanna know why Audiogalaxy isn't working anymore for me.

― nathalie, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll read the article in a minute, but is that illustration supposed to be Joni Mitchell?

― Sean, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I only wanna know why Audiogalaxy isn't working anymore for me.

It's not working for me because they want me to download some new version of the Satellite. I haven't yet done this.

― dleone, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In any case, there is something vaguely thrilling about the idea the record business as we know it might go down.

― dleone, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

On the other hand...

Economist says file-sharing should be hurting industry, but isn't.

Sony and Universal just announced that they're going to sell downloads of their entire catalogue, with no restrictions on burning etc., for 99 cents per song.

And changing broadband pricing models could make unlimited file- sharing prohibitively expensive...

I love this story...

― Ben Williams, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hurrah! finally some good news!

― T. Adorno, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Something I'd expected the record biz to do *before* this was fight back by bulking up the contents of CD packages ... you know bigger boxes, special editions with printed booklets, posters, loads of photos. Turning CDs into a whole Mystery Bag full of merchandise goodies.

But I see less of this now than 10 years ago. Have they forgotten the art of tchotchke? Are profits too slim? Maybe relying on printed inserts and booklets is too sharp a reminder of the record biz turning into the book biz.

But CD / book combinations is is probably a viable strategy for small niche labels.

― phil, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

''for 99 cents per song.''

songs aren't worth that much. Down to 1 cent say I.

― Julio Desouza, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The record industry is bulking up in other ways. eg, new Eminem CD includes multimedia video elements, etc.

― Ben Williams, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But bulking up by putting more digital media files on the disk isn't an answer, these are equally copyable. In fact it just *encourages* users to put the CD into their computer ... and we know where that leads ...

― phil, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah. Although it does adds more hassle to the act of piracy. Now you have to download the tunes, the video, etc.

There is not going to be a single magic bullet for the music industry. They are trying a whole bunch of different strategies, hoping that the combination will have some effect.

― Ben Williams, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Let's hear it for Zip files, huh!

― phil, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone heard this Carly Hennessy?

― dave q, Saturday, 15 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No, but here she is.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 15 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow! She's on the same label as Rayvon, thus far the only popstar to be named after a Phoenix Nights character! Class!

― Mr Swygart, Saturday, 15 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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