Follow the link.

have to admit I agree with the poor guy

Very interesting and a very sad read... The music biz has done its self no favours since MP3 came into being instead of embrasing the technology and charging a fair price for downloads they have tried to hike up the price as much as they can... DRM is killing music and not as most would think piracy....


Nik

Agree 110% DRM is the pits !

I have to say that music is the most difficult industry to be in we are stung for trying to do the right thing,

Mind you same with everything in the UK i go out to work and get nothing yet i know people that sit on the dole and have loads of children and get more money than me things are not fair for people that do it the correct way

What really annoys me.... more than DRM is the fact CD singles are getting increasingly more difficult to obtain from music stores, so we are being forced into the download scenario...... but at a pathetic 192 bit ...... I havent found anywhere that you can get chart stuff at 320. Dance stuff is obtainable at the higher bit rate but the good old run of the mill stuff from the likes of Itunes tesco's HMV etc is only available at 192. Very annoying.

Unless of course anyone can point me in the right direction of high bit rate chart music.....pleeease.

I agree with the bitrate situation.

A quick calculation would indicate that to maintain the current top 75 singles in .WAV or other uncompressed format would occupy approximately 3.5Gb or less - not a problem these days - and I doubt the bandwidth use would be important either considering the profit per download. As I see it, there is no excuse at all these days for not offering chart singles in .WAV format.

When are these companies going to wake up??
Maybe we should start lobbying for this with some degree of seriousness, as when CDs become virtually unobtainable - which I'm sure they will - we will be forced to accept poor quality crap, in much the same way as has happened with DAB radio.