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Pricing changes leave prices…largely unchanged

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

If you’re reading this blog, you’ve heard of iTunes and its competitors in the legal digital music industry, such as Amazon, eMusic, Deutsche Grammophon, etc. iTunes has switched from DRM (digital rights management), 128 kilobits per second MP3s to DRM-free 256 kbps AACs. Unfortunately the bump in quality and freedom from restrictions have come with a price: many pop tracks are now $1.29, rather than $0.99.

Being the hard-headed journalistic types, unswayed by rumour and hearsay, the intrepid editorial team at ClassicalWatch.com has investigated iTunes, and we are pleased to report that most classical tracks remain fixed at $0.99. Yes, even tracks with soulful artists in designer gowns and young men in tuxedoes. There are upsides to unpopularity.

Many Apple competitors also appear to have changed their pricing schemes. Due to ~~laziness~~ time constraints, the collection at other sites have not been assessed. If any readers would like to write in with their experiences with other sites, please let us know!

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“From the Garage to the Philharmonic”

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

For those of you who are Mac users and subscribe to .Mac may have noticed that Apple dropped 100 GarageBand loops from its Jam Pack 4, Symphony Orchestra in your iDisk. This is a long way from actually composing music, and certainly not for the purist, but if you would like to quickly create music for a home movie or are getting started creating music on your computer then this would be a good start. Kids who use this to create orchestral music for school projects get extra marks.

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