{"id":1294,"date":"2003-04-28T14:30:18","date_gmt":"2003-04-28T21:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/8stars.org\/aa\/2003\/04\/28\/apple-music-store\/"},"modified":"2003-04-28T14:30:18","modified_gmt":"2003-04-28T21:30:18","slug":"apple-music-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/2003\/04\/28\/apple-music-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Music Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As rumored, Apple has created a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/music\/store\/\">store<\/a> for downloadable music, which ties in with a new version of iTunes.<\/p>\n<p>They apparently have a library of 200,000 tracks from the five big labels. So far so good. They&#8217;re charging $0.99 per track. Not good. In terms of an hour&#8217;s-worth of music, this works out to be about as much as buying the CD, perhaps more&#8211;except you don&#8217;t get the CD, booklet or full-quality audio for that matter, but do get restrictions on how you can use your downloads (although the restrictions are admittedly pretty liberal, and easy enough to circumvent).<\/p>\n<p>This does seem like an improvement over some of the existing for-fee music-download services, and the integration with iTunes looks pretty slick, but the pricing is outlandish ($0.25 per track would be my limit), and the pay-per-track pricing model is a bad idea. A monthly-fee all-you-can-eat model is one that I could get behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As rumored, Apple has created a store for downloadable music, which ties in with a new version of iTunes. They apparently have a library of 200,000 tracks from the five big labels. So far so good. They&#8217;re charging $0.99 per track. Not good. 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