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Free classical music downloads of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony launch The Philadelphia Orchestra’s online music store.
(I like it!)
The Philadelphia Orchestra is the first major American orchestra to offer consumers the opportunity to download recent and archival music directly through its own website.
Also available for purchase in the store are the other Beethoven symphonies recorded under Christoph Eschenbach during the 2005-06 season, selections from the Orchestra’s highly acclaimed Centennial Collection with works conducted by the great maestros of Philadelphia – Stokowski, Ormandy, Muti and Sawallisch -– and pieces recorded during the past six years.
Initial prices range from $.99 (why is it always this price?!) for works under 10 minutes to $4.99 for a major work; in the future full concerts will be priced at $9.99. Special projects will be priced separately.
These recordings will initially be released as high-quality 256 kbps MP3s –- claimed to be a better-sounding audio format than similarly priced offerings available through the iTunes Music Store –- and in a true CD-quality format known as FLAC.
Future plans include downloads available in even higher-resolution 24-bit formats to further attract audiophiles who seek better than CD-quality audio recordings.
www.thephiladelphiaorchestra.com
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Sites were you can download music for free is far from a new idea, but at least TuneFlow is taking a novel approach with its support of indie music.
TuneFlow's "Music to the Ears: Tune Tournament" lets us (we the people) decide the best new songs on its web site.
Better yet (mostly), all tournament songs are available for free downloading. The songs are already in iPod-ready MP3 format, and there's no DRM. 
The TuneFlow tournament challenges artists to create and record new songs based on four titles chosen by TuneFlow. After the titles are announced, artists have just one month to write, record and submit their entries. The public then rates the songs submitted, and the artists with the highest average ratings win cash, prizes and recognition.
Check it out at www.tuneflow.com.
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Written by VoIP & Gadgets Blog on October 4th, 2006 with no comments.
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Everybody complains about the high cost of downloading music, but at least 
eMusic is doing something about it.
Now, 25 free downloads may not seem like a lot, but 25 is what you get during your free trial from eMusic. And you get to choose from more than 1 million songs; and the songs work on the iPod and with any other MP3 player.
After the free trial is over, individual songs are 25 cents or less (take that you 99 cent sites!).
eMusic -- where the music is free (at least for a few songs).
Download wisely!
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Written by VoIP & Gadgets Blog on May 31st, 2006 with no comments.
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Yes, once again, one of the most famous (or notorious) music download sites -- Napster -- is free.
However, things are a bit different now as Napster moves to an advertiser-supported model that allows users to listen to songs for free five times before paying for a song or monthly subscription. Walt Disney Co. and Guitar Center are among the site's new sponsors, and record labels will get a cut of the advertising revenue.
Check out the blurb on the IAB SmartBrief newsletter or the whole scoop at www.usatoday.com.
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Written by VoIP & Gadgets Blog on May 1st, 2006 with no comments.
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Everybody (including me) wonders why music downloads all cost 99 cents (or so).
(OK, Wal-mart is 88 cents per song).
Well, now we have an interesting article today about wholesale music download pricing — a fancy term for how much music download sites, like iTunes, etc., pay record labels for songs.
Well, does anyone out there care to venture a guess?
Times up — it’s apparently 70 cents per song, which gives the labels a nice piece of change and the download sites a nice markup. That’s apparently information contained in a lawsuit that the record labels don’t want made public — the better to see potential price fixing? A very bad, as in capital B, thing.
Did anyone come up with that number?
Without any physical items attached to the music (no CD to press, no jewel case to buy, no printing to be concerned about, no distribution costs), seems like 70 cents per song is a very nice payoff indeed for the record labels.
And I bet the artists whose music is being downloaded will be very interested to know how much the labels are making …
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