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In Reply to: RE: Content is not King posted by rbolaw on September 06, 2014 at 06:42:04
Of course I agree, and also that many people do not understand the difference or understand how this might apply to Streaming Music.
To my mind, it's quite simple. People will pay for the quality of the stream (SQ, bit rate, ad free, etc.), which I would term as ACCESS. I believe that CD quality streaming is on the way and people will pay MORE for ACCESS to a better quality stream. I certainly will (and now do).
They are far less likely to pay for CONTENT, in the form of a charge per tune streamed or a charge for streaming based on a charge per minute, hour, etc.
Link Below: Not that I 100% agree with everything this author says.
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People pay for the access in order to get the content. The content is, in fact, the motivator. Nobody would pay for Netflix (or the internet connection to access it) if they weren't able to access content that they wanted.
The notion of access vs. content is really about content vs. unlimited content. Of course unlimited content is attractive/motivating, but it's a function of price. At price x there are thousands of people who are willing to pay for it. At price y there are millions. At price z there are hundreds of millions. The question is does the math add up?
What if unlimited access to music were $500/mo? Would that still be what everybody wants?
Dave
You stated that $10 for unlimited access to shitty 320Kbps MP3 (in Spotify's case, Ogg Vorbis) was too cheap to be sustainable.
I agreed and stated that in Europe some people pay more like $30-$40 for unlimited access to 16/44.1 Lossless FLAC.
Your claim is that NOBODY would pay twice to three times as much money to stream music at three times the bit depth as long as the crappy sounding cheap stuff is still on the market.
That's where we left it.
We'll have to wait and see.
"Your claim is that NOBODY would pay twice to three times as much money to stream music at three times the bit depth as long as the crappy sounding cheap stuff is still on the market."
No, I said the public at large wouldn't. Of course some audiophiles like us will pay stupid money for all kinds of things.
Dave
only the most expensive, the $10 per month plan that you claim is killing the industry, includes 'enhanced quality' 320Kbps streaming.
By you're argument above, nobody but us crazy audiophile would pay extra for that 320Kbps stream when we can have 128Kbps for free.
I think people pay the $9.99 for unlimited access, not for the sound quality.
Dave
. . . was to avoid those obnoxious hip-hop ads at twice the decibel level!
and a BETTER Classical Catalog than Spostify.
Better 'Search' as well.
QOBUZ is calling you. ;-)
Check out this link:
I promised Lossless FLAC later this year but at $30 a month not $20.
Interesting that it's $20 per month in the US and 20 Pounds in the UK. That's almost twice as much in the UK as US. Market size?
So when QOBUZ comes to the US it may be cheaper as well?
Love to move up from the 'Classical Only' category and enjoy some Rock or Jazz on occasion.
But for 15 Euros a month for all-you-can-eat Classical Music Streaming, I'm happy as it is.
Heading off to our little corner of France tomorrow and thinking of upgrading to the $20 Euro plan so I can stream R&R and Jazz/Blues. Thinking of even droping Spotify, but wife likes to use it with the SONOS which does not support QOBUZ as it's not in the US as yet.
Also, QOBUZ only supports 3 devices simultaneously( I think), and with the laptop, iPhone and iPad I'm already there. PIA to deactivate one in order to activate another. At least a PIA for me. Perhaps it's easy for others.
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