Matt Goldspink DJ Mixes

I can summarise this fairly shortly with the following scenarios:

1. I’ve just bought 3 minute long song from iTunes for 79p. I also buy a 6 minute long song for 79p. Which is better value for money?
2. I’ve downloaded my track from iTunes and want to play it on the MP3 player my nan bought me from Woolworths at Christmas. Hold on? My MP3 player doesn’t support this MP4 malarky!? Infact only iPods support MP4! Apple is yet to licence the technology to other companies! Hows that for unfair competition?
3. I’m a DJ and I need top quality (ie. CD quality) music. Considering if I bought a CD single for £3.99 with 3 tracks, how come when i buy from iTunes I get lower than CD quality & I pay £2.37. If I offered to pay a bit extra could I have CD quality? Nope, but you could just go down to HMV and buy the CD plus you get a hard copy of it!

Ok, not everyone will notice how much Apple is ripping them off until they take a look at one of their competitors…. AllofMP3.com. Let’s take a brief look at what they offer to see where iTunes is going wrong:

1. You want music you can play on MP3 player? Well how about you download an MP3! It sounds such a simple principle, but why can’t anyone blinded by Apple’s iPod/Tunes domination see that? Infact how about you prefer the quality of other formats like Ogg Vorbis, MPC or even the lossless quality of FLAC? Fine, just choose to download in that format when you purchase the music!
2. Why should you pay 79p for a 3 minute song & a 6 minute song? Fine, don’t pay that much. How about you just pay for the size of the file? Sounds a bit fairer, but how much will a 3 minute song cost now? Oh, I don’t know say around 5p!!! Don’t believe me, then take a look!
3. Ok, well fine, how about if I’m DJing want some top quality audio file? Say about 320kbps MP3? Fine just use their online encoding system and choose whatever format and bitrate you want! You’ll have to pay a bit more obviously because you’re gonna get a bigger file, but if thats what you need then you got it! And when I say a bit more, it’ll be about another 4-5p. Nothing that’ll break the bank!

Now doesn’t all that sound a bit fairer?? I think so!