Posted on 01/06/2007 3:18:08 AM PST by ShadowDancer
CD Sales Keep Falling; Digital Music Bridges Gap
POSTED: 11:29 am EST January 5, 2007
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- U.S. album sales continued to decline in 2006, down nearly 5 percent from the previous year.
However, total music sales were up, thanks to a huge increase in digital sales.
The industy said 588 million albums were sold in 2006.
Digital sales increased by 65 percent over the previous year, with 582 million tracks sold. Digital album sales more than doubled, with nearly 33 million sold last year.
Overall music sales increased by more than 19 percent in 2006, but that number includes all albums, singles, music videos and digital downloads.
The top-selling album of the year was a soundtrack inspired by the Disney Channel movie "High School Musical," which sold more than 3.7 million copies.
Had Republicans stayed in power, Congress would have reacted by passing a law forcing Americans to buy CDs from the RIAA at artificially high pegged prices. They would have hailed this as the 'conservative' approach to the problem.
Get to know your neighbors, offer to split their cable bill with them, and with a few hundred dollars' worth of wireless equipment, you can enjoy blazing fast connections.
Look online at Mac open source sites like sourceforge.net for hacks to get around this.
A song purchased from iTunes can be enabled to play on up to five computers, and an unlimited number of iPods. The latest version of the iPod/iTunes software allows iTunes music to be transferred between different computers via the iPod itself, IF both computers previously have been enabled to play music purchased by the iTunes account holder who bought the song.
Use your dial-up connection to make sure your own computer is enabled for use with your son's iTunes account. Make sure you have the most up-to-date iTunes and iPod software, and look for the "Transfer Purchases from iPod" command on the "File" menu. You might have to set the iPod to handle music transfers manually, as a previous response to your question mentioned, but I don't think this is true with the latest version of the software.
However, music that was copied from CD, stolen from eDonkey or LimeWire, or downloaded from other sources cannot be transferred in this way. And because the iPod keeps its music in hidden directories with cryptic file names, it is not the case that you can simply drag and drop the music files.
There are freeware and shareware programs, like iPod Music Liberator, that can see through the veil Apple cast over the music files on the iPod, and allow you to extract non-iTunes song files to your own computer. This works for us on the Mac, but I assume there are similar programs for the PC too.
Great idea!!
Great idea!!
When I hear rap songs by female "artists," I can't help but be reminded of my high school days, when we played an all black school in football. The cheerleaders from the opposing school all had cheers that sounded like today's rap "hits." BTW, I went to high school back in the mid-70s.
I've wrestled with this for a long while. Legally, I agree, the law says it is stealing, however here's why I think the RIAA is going to get burned. They did not create the work and people know this. It's a different story if the ARTIST wants to sue you, they have every right, although they would be absolute idiots too. If artist like Metallica do not recognize "Electronic Media" for what it is then let them create a product that by-passes the medium and see how far these artist get with their work. BTW, where is Metallica today?
I am not arguing the LEGALITY of this, you are correct. This has to do with whether or not you market your product for a demand and not piss off your mostly poor fan base.
I have restocked my whole collection on mp3 thanks to livewre, and also found it a fantastic source for exploring "New" music.
when you go to your preferences...set it to manual, not automatic and then you won't lose all your songs....
Jonny, when you get the chance to catch up to your pings, here's a discussion about the music industry you may find interesting.
Uhhh, someone should tell AP that CD's are digital.
My point is about WHY people buy the product. In capitalism there is a thing called, "demand" and if you cut people off from a medium in a "destructive" way, you probably are going to suffer profability and even market loss.
This article pinpoints and makes a perfect example of where people want to go to get this medium now and instead of embrasing that avenue the RIAA turns around a sues people for a pentance. Well, up yours RIAA, I am not going to ever buy another CD! Not because the artist and RIAA don't have the right to sue, but because they are punishing their market for essentially using a medium and not creatively trying to develope another avenue to enjoy their product...They've just pissed off their own market!!
So eventhough I do think it's illegal to pirate music through sharing, I also think the RIAA going after people financially is just dumb business and will ruin something they could develope even better.
All this article has done is prove my point.
At the moment that I am posting this, there are 123,602 LP's, 73,515 45's, and 5,960 78's listed on eBay. Of course, you're almost right if you mean newly produced records. Here is one of several companies producing newly manufactured analog vinyl records for the audiophile market.
Because those songs appear to be dissappearing when the software recognizes the ipod. However, I have not investigated further yet to see if this is the case.
But they ONLY go after westerners, people living in Western society.
Asia, South America, and Africa? Who cares?
That would be my argument.
You mean the "preferences" on the Ipod itself? (It's a Nano) I can't seem to find this on the itunes software.
bttt
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