This means you can build your own playlist and listen online as well as connect to some of the artists and composers.

If the download is interrupted, or if you need to download a track again, it is easily done. We had a black-out – and it was easy to resume my download. Their download manager probably works fine with steady bandwidths. With the wildly fluctuating bandwidth of my ISP, I found it easier to download with DownThemAll… The DG download manager is sensitive to time-outs.

All tracks are properly tagged; the moment you load them into iTunes, you’re ready to go. Also, in the web store, if its available, you’ll find it easily, unlike Amazon or iTunes, where you need to try out many search options (by composer, conductor, ensemble, title….)

I wasn’t aware that Americans, once again, get favoured… why should we pay 40% more? That is definitely a minus.

With 320kbs, personally, I can’t tell the difference between CD and mp3… and I do not listen to my music on the computer! I’m no enthusiast of FLAC. Not everybody (myself included) has the option to subscribe to super-broadband… and if you live in a part of the world, where BB is readily available, well, so are record stores, where you could buy the CDs…. just because you CAN download doesn’t mean you HAVE to…

It may be better than iTunes, but that’s not saying much, especially when you consider than most classical music fans have pretty decent sound systems and don’t just listen to music on their iPods.

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Το βρήκα στο μπλογκ του vrypan. Πριν από καιρό διάβαζα ένα άρθρο για το πώς το διαδίκτυο έδωσε το “φιλί της ζωής” στην κλασική μουσική, κάνοντ…

There are plenty of classical works written recently enough to be in copyright, some are very popular too (John Adams). Classical Music doesn’t just come from dead people.

I usually check out the composition from the library and then if I like it just buy a CD at amazon.

In my opinion this is not a valuable service for a lot of classical music fans.

Augustus

Actually, those aren’t what the logicians call “disjoint sets.” There’s contemporary classical music, much of it still under copyright, and even composed by living, royalty-collecting people; a check made out to Beethoven will go uncashed, but a check to Joan Tower or Osvaldo Golijov would, I imagine, be most welcome.

Having said that, and seeing clearly the economic advantage of sticking with mp3, I feel that a great opportunity to push for FLAC as the superior standard has been missed.

FLAC compresses audio data in a lossless manner, and therefore represents the exact copy of CD audio, while mp3 will always cut off something. And I think it is safe to say that customers enjoying a big enough bandwidth to allow for a smooth download of 320k mp3 files wouldn’t mind getting perfect quality at double file sizes (from my experience, maximum FLAC compression reduces file size to roughly 60%).

A word on pricing: Too bad we don’t know the EURO prices yet. $12 at the present currency rate are the equivalent of about €8,08. Which means DG will cash in big time because their new platform reduces the logistics chain to a minimum (no more dealers, no more hardware production and handling, no more shipping etc) while skimming the long-tail market with product that already became profitable a long time ago.

We are getting one step closer to a 100% DRM free world. Link 
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