Would be nice to offer purchasing songs by track as an addition to “by album”. Sometimes I just like a few songs in an album and don’t want to buy all the songs in it.
Hi, I just ordered my first record from your store and I really liked the experience – couple of minutes and I was playing the tracks. Impressive!!! I encountered some minor glitches on the way but overall it was very straight forward process. It’s funny but I feel kinda excited waiting also to get the CD. I haven’t really bought any CD’s for looong time and now I can listen to the tracks immediately and there will be the CD in my mailbox soon as a “cherry on the top”.
Congratulations! Finally an internet music vender that understands two of the main impediments preventing many people from buying music online (listening limitations with DRM encoded music, and the desire for a hardcopy with liner notes that can’t be lost due to a crashed harddrive). I may eventually accept music purchases w/o the CD, but I will stop listening to music before purchasing a single DRM encoded track. Hopefully AnywhereCD can keep their prices competitive with CD stores. With the demise of Tower Records, online stores are the only place most people can find many CDs outside the “Hot 100″. AnywhereCD is a hybrid of online CD stores and music download services that I plan to patronize as long as they can keep the prices competitive. Good Luck Michael Robertson and company.
This is great stuff!! and exactly what the music industry should have done from the outset. I am from the UK and can’t wait for this service to be availble outside of the US! keep up the good work!.
Chidz.
“AnywhereCD is selling Warner Music Group content in a manner that flagrantly violates the terms of our agreement,” says a WMG representative. “Accordingly, we have sent them a notice of termination and they are required to immediately remove all of our content from their site.”
While I applaud the effort, the whole point of purchasing music online is to avoid the cost of the CD and shipping!
You make adding the MP3s in sound like its worth some extra value when in fact most people would just rip their songs themselves.
If your prices are not going to be at match current popular sites like iTunes or others than you’re really not offering consumers a true alternative other than tp pay more for something they don’t necessarily want.
Prices are totally fine, dont let people complain about them… That’s the standard ‘buy an album’ price anyway. Most audiophiles like owning the album and not just cherrypicking some songs. If you like music, you like your artists, and you want to know all about their music, not just the most popular songs.
Keep up the hard work! (cant wait to see the site when it’s all together (still needs a lot of work))
I checked several CDs I will likely buy online (since they are hard to find in stores) are the same price between AnywhereCD and Amazon (including shipping). The only difference is if you are in California, AnywhereCD has to collect tax. There are over 2000 CDs in my collection and I will continue to buy CDs for the time being. Receiving decent quality MP3s is a nice bonus, especially while waiting for the CD to arrive. If I had to pay a premium for the MP3s, then I’d usually wait for the CD and just rip it myself.
AnywhereCD has the right concept of easing CD buyers into accepting electronic delivery of purchased music. Hopefully AnywhereCD will do well and help convince the music industry that there is more money to be made selling DRM free music online, than DRM hobbled content that is of much less value to the music buyer.
Although I applaud the effort…there is still a LONG way to go. You are trying to sell an album for $17.95…and I can find that same album for $9.99 on Amazon. That is just one of countless examples. So is it worth $8.00 extra just to be able to download the songs immediately and then receive a MP3 cd in the mail? I think not.
And I was REALLY hoping to get excited about AnywhereCD. Let me know when you start charging some reasonable prices.
Is it possible to have a sample of the artist music to download. Say just on one tract or part of a tract so that we can hear it before we decide to buy?
I agree that having the option to not burn oil to make plastic and then pay trucks and people to move that plastic around is a feature that makes sense. Unfortunately, we turned that off because some people didn’t like it. I think it’s good for the environment and good for the music industry because it means less used CDs in the marketplace. But sometimes things don’t make sense in this world.
I think longer term it will all work out. Please be patient!
I agree with all your comments about the pros & cons of AnywhereCD. As of now they are not doing us much of a favor. If we were to get the cd anyway then all we have to do is rip it ourselves. But I’m still proud of AnywhereCD for getting the ball rolling. And I would wager that the AnywhereCD project is intended to gradually warm up music labels to DRM-free MP3’s more than it is a necessary alternative for consumers as is. But as AnywhereCD gains popularity, it should have more buying options. Although in light of the immediate lawsuit between Warner and AnywhereCD, I guess it’s not going well.
I read that one of AnywhereCD’s selling points to Warner was their selling of full albums, which could start boosting revenue since record labels are taking a hit because customers often buy single tracks now. I agree with Aaron’s comments, in that I still often like to buy full albums especially ones from my favorite artists. But as a consumer I think if you want to buy one song you should be able to buy one song. And I suppose the record labels should just deal with that. What does everyone else think?
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April 13, 2007 at 12:24 am
Dave
Would be nice to offer purchasing songs by track as an addition to “by album”. Sometimes I just like a few songs in an album and don’t want to buy all the songs in it.
April 13, 2007 at 4:16 am
J Lystila
Hi, I just ordered my first record from your store and I really liked the experience – couple of minutes and I was playing the tracks. Impressive!!! I encountered some minor glitches on the way but overall it was very straight forward process. It’s funny but I feel kinda excited waiting also to get the CD. I haven’t really bought any CD’s for looong time and now I can listen to the tracks immediately and there will be the CD in my mailbox soon as a “cherry on the top”.
Keep up the good work!
April 13, 2007 at 4:31 am
Charlezinho
Congratulations! Finally an internet music vender that understands two of the main impediments preventing many people from buying music online (listening limitations with DRM encoded music, and the desire for a hardcopy with liner notes that can’t be lost due to a crashed harddrive). I may eventually accept music purchases w/o the CD, but I will stop listening to music before purchasing a single DRM encoded track. Hopefully AnywhereCD can keep their prices competitive with CD stores. With the demise of Tower Records, online stores are the only place most people can find many CDs outside the “Hot 100″. AnywhereCD is a hybrid of online CD stores and music download services that I plan to patronize as long as they can keep the prices competitive. Good Luck Michael Robertson and company.
April 13, 2007 at 8:01 am
Philippe Astor
Hi, it seems that now you cannot buy an MP3 album without the CD. ?
April 13, 2007 at 9:20 am
Chidz
This is great stuff!! and exactly what the music industry should have done from the outset. I am from the UK and can’t wait for this service to be availble outside of the US! keep up the good work!.
Chidz.
April 13, 2007 at 1:11 pm
thewebguy
“AnywhereCD is selling Warner Music Group content in a manner that flagrantly violates the terms of our agreement,” says a WMG representative. “Accordingly, we have sent them a notice of termination and they are required to immediately remove all of our content from their site.”
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April 13, 2007 at 4:31 pm
mliving
While I applaud the effort, the whole point of purchasing music online is to avoid the cost of the CD and shipping!
You make adding the MP3s in sound like its worth some extra value when in fact most people would just rip their songs themselves.
If your prices are not going to be at match current popular sites like iTunes or others than you’re really not offering consumers a true alternative other than tp pay more for something they don’t necessarily want.
April 13, 2007 at 7:47 pm
Aaron
Love the idea, love the CD in the mail!
Prices are totally fine, dont let people complain about them… That’s the standard ‘buy an album’ price anyway. Most audiophiles like owning the album and not just cherrypicking some songs. If you like music, you like your artists, and you want to know all about their music, not just the most popular songs.
Keep up the hard work! (cant wait to see the site when it’s all together (still needs a lot of work))
Good luck-
Aaron
April 13, 2007 at 11:49 pm
Charlezinho
I checked several CDs I will likely buy online (since they are hard to find in stores) are the same price between AnywhereCD and Amazon (including shipping). The only difference is if you are in California, AnywhereCD has to collect tax. There are over 2000 CDs in my collection and I will continue to buy CDs for the time being. Receiving decent quality MP3s is a nice bonus, especially while waiting for the CD to arrive. If I had to pay a premium for the MP3s, then I’d usually wait for the CD and just rip it myself.
AnywhereCD has the right concept of easing CD buyers into accepting electronic delivery of purchased music. Hopefully AnywhereCD will do well and help convince the music industry that there is more money to be made selling DRM free music online, than DRM hobbled content that is of much less value to the music buyer.
April 17, 2007 at 6:09 pm
AJ
Although I applaud the effort…there is still a LONG way to go. You are trying to sell an album for $17.95…and I can find that same album for $9.99 on Amazon. That is just one of countless examples. So is it worth $8.00 extra just to be able to download the songs immediately and then receive a MP3 cd in the mail? I think not.
And I was REALLY hoping to get excited about AnywhereCD. Let me know when you start charging some reasonable prices.
April 18, 2007 at 8:36 am
GF
Is it possible to have a sample of the artist music to download. Say just on one tract or part of a tract so that we can hear it before we decide to buy?
April 18, 2007 at 9:49 am
michael robertson
Thanks for the feedback everyone. It means a lot.
I agree that having the option to not burn oil to make plastic and then pay trucks and people to move that plastic around is a feature that makes sense. Unfortunately, we turned that off because some people didn’t like it. I think it’s good for the environment and good for the music industry because it means less used CDs in the marketplace. But sometimes things don’t make sense in this world.
I think longer term it will all work out. Please be patient!
– MR
May 16, 2007 at 12:07 am
Dan Jania
I agree with all your comments about the pros & cons of AnywhereCD. As of now they are not doing us much of a favor. If we were to get the cd anyway then all we have to do is rip it ourselves. But I’m still proud of AnywhereCD for getting the ball rolling. And I would wager that the AnywhereCD project is intended to gradually warm up music labels to DRM-free MP3’s more than it is a necessary alternative for consumers as is. But as AnywhereCD gains popularity, it should have more buying options. Although in light of the immediate lawsuit between Warner and AnywhereCD, I guess it’s not going well.
I read that one of AnywhereCD’s selling points to Warner was their selling of full albums, which could start boosting revenue since record labels are taking a hit because customers often buy single tracks now. I agree with Aaron’s comments, in that I still often like to buy full albums especially ones from my favorite artists. But as a consumer I think if you want to buy one song you should be able to buy one song. And I suppose the record labels should just deal with that. What does everyone else think?