[RepublitarianRoger]

I buy singles on iTunes, but I’ll keep buying any full albums that I want on CD, as long as digital music has these inferior “features”:

1. DRM restrictions
2. Reduced fidelity; lost audio information compared to CDs.
3. Just a low-res digital cover graphic and not the entire front cover, back cover, inlays, and booklet that comes with the CD.

Also, single tracks on iTunes (or any other legal service) should cost no more than 50 cents.

[abt87]

I second that! And they should also allow for people to download music in lossless formats such as FLAC or Apple’s own proprietary Apple Lossless Codec. BTW, in an age of EULA’s and DRM, you can’t even resell digital downloads like you can with CD’s. The RIAA hates the First Sale Doctrine, and by slapping DRM and EULA’s on digital downloads, they will have effectively eliminated it.

[jdm]

Apple could (should?) offer lossless (CD quality) music for 99 cents a track; 50 cents if you want the MP3 version. There may be a market for that in the future. The file size for lossless, i.e., WAV files, is much higher than an MP3 but codecs like FLAC have found a way to reduce the file size quite a bit, without compromising the sound.