The Sun chooses The Net
p2pnet.net News:- Every now and then we get questions and one recently asked, “Do you think digital music will come out all the better, above CD sales?”
p2pnet’s Jon Newton answered, “What I’d like to see happen is this: in X number of years, you’ll go into a record store, choose high fidelity song tracks you want from the bands you want, burn them onto a disc, pay at the counter according to the number of tunes you’ve selected, and that’ll be that. Artwork will be a separate thing and you’ll mix your own covers, choosing from samples associated with the bands you like. And you’ll automatically get an mp3 of each track that you’ve bought.”
Dream on? Maybe not. It’s a very short step from downloading to your own computer or going into a store and buying (downloading) one or more reasonably priced tracks for DIY DVDs holding songs from yer favourite band. Or mixtures.
Pearl Jam are doing downloads and tomorrow, Ohio’s The Sun will release its Blame It on the Youth online, on a DVD and on vinyl (those round, black, shiny things ; )
But not on a CD.
The Sun was signed by Warner Bros Records and you’ll recall Warner Music Group recently announced its e-label, which’ll mean online releases in groups of three every few months instead of a CD.
Blame It can be, "played on a DVD player or popped in a computer, where the high-resolution WAV files may be burned onto a blank CD, an iPod or other MP3 players," says USA Today. "The downside of Blame’s configuration is its lack of security coding, allowing easy pirating."
Easy pirating? Wot? No DRM?
But the band doesn’t mind. "We leaked our whole record about five months ago," USA Today has drummer Sam Brown saying.
"We’re kind of looking into the future of audio. I don’t think the CD is going to last a lot longer. It is risky for an unknown band to release music that requires so much manual extraction, but the people most excited about music are young and pretty computer-savvy."
Check it out The Sun’s blog space.
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See:-
doing downloads – Pearl Jam mp3s, minus DRM, August 25, 2005
groups of three – Meet the Warner ‘e-label’, August 23, 2005
USA Today – Fans can burn own CDs from The Sun’s DVD, August 25, 2005
