Wired interviews eMusic CEO Danny Stein about their recent price increases and the addition of Sony’s back catalog.
Wired.com: What do you have to say to longtime subscribers who are so upset about prices going up?
Stein: We knew it was going to be tough breaking the news about the price increase, so we’ve been listening to [...]
Sony is coming to eMusic, and eMusic will raise prices.
This is the first I’m reading about the price increase. I haven’t received an email about my plan changing – I’m on an annual plan so I’m not sure they can do much until I resubscribe in the fall.
Today eMusic will announce that Sony is [...]
In my opinion.
Once in a while I’ll read something about mixing engineers and how they create different mixes for CDs and digital music services. The arguments are that encodes don’t recreate certain frequencies well, like anything below 100hz. So because of that they may suggest boosting the low-end on anything that will be used for [...]
September 14, 2008 – 11:03 am
I’ve been getting upset that AAC hasn’t gotten as much support as MP3, but the more I think about it the more I realize that MP3 is the smarter choices for these stores. I prefer AAC, but MP3 has wider compatibility and has much larger recognition behind it. MP3 is synonymous with digital music.
The other [...]
August 26, 2008 – 3:05 pm
If you’ve read the iTunes Zero article you’ll know that I’m very meticulous about everything in my iTunes library – and chances are you probably do the same things.
One of the other problems you may be facing is that there’s SO MUCH STUFF in your iTunes library. How do you handle it all?
Here’s what works [...]