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In Reply to: RE: Well, I know a couple who are paying more than $10.... posted by David Smith on September 06, 2014 at 08:40:44
Which is why QOBUZ offers MP3 streaming for 10 Euros a month and Lossless FLAC for 20 Euros a month in most of Europe and the UK?
Again, how do you know when no one in the US has tried?
How do you know if Spotify hasn't already thought about streaming Lossless FLAC but has yet to put together the necessary infrastructure to stream it?
How do you know Beats wasn't discussing higher quality streaming at the time they were purchased by Apple? They certainly knew that QOBUZ was planning to launch Lossless FLAC in the US even though that now appears uncertain.
Who knows what Apple will do?
What is certain is that it takes FAR more infrastructure to steam Lossless FLAC than 320Kbps MP3 (or in Spotify's case, Ogg Vorbis format).
If you believe that 320Kbps is the end of the line, quality wise, for streaming music all I can suggest is...
Wait and See!
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I've never suggested that mp3 is the end of the line. I fully expect 44.1 at least to become the standard for streaming. What won't happen is people choosing higher resolution en masse if they have the option of 320 mp3 for a lower price. Whatever the "standard" is for streaming, it will be the lowest price available. If at that point nothing is available for less than $40/mo, that could be the price. I think a much likelier outcome is that streaming is 44.1 at $9.99/mo, just as it has been with the transition from 128k to 320k.
Dave
but you keep mentioning the $10 per month plan which is the MOST EXPENSIVE and the ONLY ONE with 320Kpps sound quality! ;-)
And true that $10/mo subscribers only accounts for a portion of Spotify users. I cite that rate because it seems to be the standard rate available for unlimited use of any of the major streaming services. None of them are sustainable.
I don't know specifically at what rate it's sustainable. Perhaps if every household in the US did subscribe at $10/mo it would work. Perhaps given a realistic rate of subscription it would need to be $50/mo to be sustainable. What I do know is the current rates (in whatever distribution they exist) are paltry and it takes tens of thousands of plays to equal the revenue of a single album purchase on iTunes. The rate of revenue is far, far short of being sustainable, and is not a matter of a few more people signing up.
Dave
At over 115 Million US households, yeah might work. That would produce roughly twice the current US music industry revenues of $7 Billion.But then I have friends who pay $220 a month to Comcast.
I think the number will be between $20 and $40 for unlimited lossless FLAC if and when it gets here, and with the faster cellular data and faster internet connections, that should be sustainable over the long haul.
Edits: 09/06/14
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