Matador Records on iTunes

"As a followup to a previous story on the coming of independent labels on Apple's iTunes Music Store… Matador Records announced on Friday that "major chunks of its extensive catalog" are now available on Apple's iTunes Music Store.

Matador Records' bands include Interpol, Cat Power, Yo La Tengo, Stephen Malkmus, Mogwai, Guided By Voices, Pretty Girls Make Graves amongst many others, including The New Pornographers (not yet available on iTMS). Matador also hopes to also make exclusive materials available to the iTunes Music Store in the future.

The first independent artists started appearing in late July. PowerPage noted in September that Rounder Records added a significant portion of their catalog to the music store.

Apple has been adding an increasing number of new songs each Tuesday to their iTunes Music Store." - http://www.macrumors.com/

This was news Friday, Teddy. Keep up!

This was the most interesting bit:

Matador also said that in the months ahead, it hopes to make exclusive material available via iTunes, such as previews from forthcoming studio albums, outtakes, live tracks, and demo version

Oh, and iTunes for Windows is reportedly going to be released October 16th.

so

good when on overpriced itunes

ho-hum when it was on the once bargin emusic

I dont like subscription services.

But I have not used itunes store either. But then I am an old fashioned consumer who lives 5 minutes walk from two great record stores…….

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:

ho-hum when it was on the once bargin emusic

I never once critizied Emusic, I just never used it. To be honest I really don't use iTunes music store either. However I am glad to see independent labels making use of the serivce.
Its just a nice option to have there. I don't like subscription based serivces. I don't feel like I should have to pay some amount per month, I only want to pay when I use the service.

I will however be extremely interested, when iTunes for windows is released, how much of an impact it will have. Apple could become a much bigger player in music, if it all takes off.

i was poking fun at the pariah… because in his eyes emusic wasn't good enough but he never seems to get down on anything itunes does. just ignore me i'm getting pms'ed by jt fans…

10 bucks a month for having the option of downloading tons was money well spent for me.

Itunes is $.99 a song?? thats just crazy! so thats just almost the same as new CDs, except you dont have to buy the whole CD. what a rip off.

Meanwhile i have downloaded over 100 CDs from Emusic in the past 3 days and plan to continue until 11/7. :)

But the point is Emusic wasnt a sustainable approach……. Hence the change.

iTunes is clearly being pitched as an alternative to buying a CD. If you lived miles from a CD store, or just want to listen to something right away, Its a great approach.

For people who have ipods, it also saves the effort of ripping CDs…..

While not well suited to me, I can imagine a lot of people that would find the systen ideal.

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Itunes is $.99 a song?? thats just crazy!

I don't the that its all that crazy. Its $.99 a song but if you buy a whole album its usually $10, which for a whole cd isn't bad at all.

Meanwhile i have downloaded over 100 CDs from Emusic in the past 3 days and plan to continue until 11/7. :)

Right but what happens on 11/7, then no more 100 CD's. So for a while it was good because they were trying to hook people in. I just don't believe that a subscription based service will work for online music, except for maybe streaming music.

what happens on november 7? how long is taking you to do a download and what type of connection do you have?

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Meanwhile i have downloaded over 100 CDs from Emusic in the past 3 days and plan to continue until 11/7. :)

Originally posted by raebyddet:
except for maybe streaming music.

I think you are right. Either music on demand, or satellite radio services seem sensible as subscriptions

Originally posted by lily1:
what happens on november 7? how long is taking you to do a download and what type of connection do you have?

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Meanwhile i have downloaded over 100 CDs from Emusic in the past 3 days and plan to continue until 11/7. :)

emusic changed their subscription service… it used to "unlimited" download for a $10 a month. on 11/7 the plans changes to a limit of 40 tracks of month. right now there are thousands of emusic users going whole hog on the downloads, even for me on dsl it's slow.

yes the emusic business model wasn't working as well as it could, but it's been around for longer than most internet ventures. matador admitted that the revenue they were seeing from emusic was minimal, but at least they were getting paid for it. verses the other free file swapping alternatives.

the new pricing indicates a shift to ala-carte downloading verses album oriented downloading. it also means that the 850 smaller labels on emusic will not get any traffic, because the focus will on the bigger well known indie labels will get the limited downloads people get.

i content that matador would do better in the long run on a service like emusic verses itunes because the typical michelle branch fan wont be downloading the new pornograpers to try out. where as on emusic the users are far more adventorus.

All the world needs an Amoeba.

Originally posted by The Pariah:

Originally posted by raebyddet:
except for maybe streaming music.

I think you are right. Either music on demand, or satellite radio services seem sensible as subscriptions

so it's better to pay for someone to program what you listen to once verses being able to download entire songs or albums at your leisure. and then be able to keep what you like and discard what stinks? guess xmradio has the better model….

Originally posted by The Pariah:
But the point is Emusic wasnt a sustainable approach……. Hence the change.

The real point is if the music industry embraced emusic instead of spending millions on lawsuits and horrible security measures, it would have worked. emusic is everything Napster was well on its way to becoming. A subscription download service with a reasonable flat license fee, take all you want, would have stopped the free trading and given the consumer a jukebox in every home. And the artists and the record companies get thier license fees.

Instead we get 99 cents a song. Gee thanks! I'll go through the "effort" of ripping my CD's thanks.

Originally posted by lily1:
what happens on november 7? how long is taking you to do a download and what type of connection do you have?

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Meanwhile i have downloaded over 100 CDs from Emusic in the past 3 days and plan to continue until 11/7. :)

It takes me about 30 minutes to download 1 CD's worth of music. and since i had 3 days of being stuck in my apt taking care of a sick GF, I had endless hours (plus you can queue up 40 or so songs on thier DL manager)

Cable Modem.

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
so it's better to pay for someone to program what you listen to once verses being able to download entire songs or albums at your leisure. and then be able to keep what you like and discard what stinks? guess xmradio has the better model….

But I used to like Radio……It used to be a great way of listening to new music. If woxy charged $10 a month I would pay.


Music on demand…. say pay $20 a month and listen to whatever you like, you just cannot keep it would be good for a lot of people too.

Emusic was something I probably should have done. But I never saw emusic as a long term viable proposition.

EMusic History
Since it was founded in 1998, EMusic has been a pioneer in the digital distribution of music. In July of 1998, EMusic became the first commercial site to begin selling singles and albums in the popular MP3 format. In the Fall of 2000, EMusic became the first company to launch a downloadable music subscription service.


EMusic biggest mistep was probably not changing their subscription levels with the increased popularity of cable modem….