Beatport is too money hungry
Okay Beatport, what gives $3.49 for a WAV file? Excuse my rant, but honestly, this is getting ridiculous. I don’t mind $2.50 for a WAV, but for a 320 kbps MP3, no.
audiojelly.com has 99 cent wavs.
And there’s actually some good songs on Audiojelly, but I just hope it’s not to be to good to be true. Sucks if the song is a Beatport exclusive though.
It’s always been that much money ever since I found out about beatport around 2005 or 6. If you wait a few weeks the prices drop so you can shop for slightly older music at $1.50/mp3 or get your music somewhere else. There’s also a bunch of promo codes on another thread here so you can save some money that way as well.
Every time I see someone complain about bp I think back to making those tough decisions of paying $11 for a vinyl import single with 1 track I liked.
edit: here’s the discount link: *Official* Beatport/Juno etc Discount Code Thread.
FFS it really isnt that much money.
All the young guys should take this into consideration before making a useless thread like this
truth
[QUOTE]Every time I see someone complain about bp I think back to making those tough decisions of paying $11 for a vinyl import single with 1 track I liked.
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But that one track for $11 may have been “the track” of your set for months and months and no-one else would have, or be able to find it.
So I disagree, sure vinyl was expensive but once you bought it you had:
a) Something Physical you could sell on afterward for a few $
b) Much more set longevity from your vinyl collection as tracks were expensive to get released and that one track for $11 was probably part of your set for a greater period of time than the digital download.
When everyone was playing vinyl you could Cane “that track” week in - week out for months with everyone wondering what the hell it was or which remix, DJ sets were more Varied and DJ’s understood that you had to trust your ears for what would work and do your own legwork.
IMHO that was the special part about going to see big-name jocks, those “ghost” tracks you heard on a dodgy mixtape that you start to wonder if they existed at all, until you see a limited edition 5/100 copy in your mates house at a party someday.
What I’m getting at is amount of milage you get from a DJ set since computers and Downloading has become the norm is much less and keeping up-to-date these days is more expensive IMHO.
I do think that 3.50 is a bit rich for a WAV file … I’ll stick with Mp3’s despite their flaws there’s not THAT many tracks I buy that I’ll still be playing in a year from now, so not worth paying the premium.
Ha beatport sucks
I wonder if beatport will lower their prices or raise them when EDM sinks away to obscurity again?
well we will agree to disagree because i don’t feel the same.
a) sure you could sell them afterwards but how many people really do that? i still have all of my vinyl from 10+ years ago and i imagine most other people are the same. i get that you can’t really sell digital downloads these days due to copyright reasons so i see your point.
b) this depends on the person but i find my track longevity hasn’t changed in the slightest regarding this. i will still play tracks i bought from beatport 7 years ago with no issues and no one knows what it is anyhow. in fact, i had to retire some of my records because i played them so much they sounded like arse after the needle did it’s work on them. plus, i couldn’t even order records in the summer as all of them would arrive warped and our only physical electronic, dj based record shop closed down very early on here in vegas.
i don’t think it was that different regarding popularity since every place i ever went (both online and brick and mortar) had the “top 10+” tracks of the week or whatever, so most djs were still playing the same things at the same times even on vinyl. sure i have some white label stuff i had no idea what it is, but i don’t really miss that to be honest. if i find a good song i want to know who did it damnit! and what you are talking about above is definitely the exception to the rule, not the norm. not every record every dj got was some obscure white label or 1/200 pressing or something. most were just the standard tunes.
i was never one to really just buy the top 10 stuff anyway so i do just as much digging, if not more these days. with all of the people on soundcloud and lesser known labels trying to make a name there is a ton of underground stuff you can get via mp3 that will be banging on in sets 10 years from now in the hands of good djs who use their ears. not to mention the fact that a lot of this stuff is free. i barely even pay for music these days thanks to artists like these.
i honestly hear very little difference between what djs are playing now vs then in the regard you are talking about, but that’s just my anecdotal experience…i’m sure yours may vary. it’s all good to me though as i just love hearing some good tunes regardless of how old they are, and i will keep my ear to the ground no matter what format music is being delivered in.
and if i didnt post enough in my rambling wall of text, i just want to zone in on this statement. $11 was par for the course for almost every import single/ep back then (each with what…1 to 4 cuts on them?). domestics were regularly $7, so these were just for normal track selections that most everyone was able to get their hands on and not just super limited pressings. those were even more expensive usually and almost always sold out before i could get my hands on them.
occasionally the website i frequented would do a blowout sale of a bunch of obscure stuff that just didn’t sell over a certain period of time. that’s were i would usually find all of my gems, and that’s where i spend most of my time anyhow, because paying $11 for one song everyone else had wasn’t my idea of a good value.
i doubt it. i’ve never seen them change their prices once in all this time. maybe they’ve adjusted how long they will keep tracks at the $2.50 or $2 mark…dunno i’ve never really kept a close eye on that stuff as i very rarely found myself snagging anything over $1.50 from them.
Where do you shop iTunes?
I can’t wait for this day.
Me too, then hopefully dance music can get back to normal business and not be dominated by pop dance, although the balance of ‘EDM’ to other dance music genres it’s not so much of a big thing in the UK thankfully.
Back OT, all I know is I’ve gone from £70 a week on vinyl to £20 a month for digital tunes via Traxsource (using discount codes - silly to pay full price), so it’s definitely cheaper. I think I’d struggle to justify a £9 import 12", with a track a side, having got used to downloads. I still own and play my vinyl collection, just a shame I’ve not got the space to have it all out. However I will concede the turnover of music is quicker I believe, more is being released and there is a lot of filler too. The means tune digging still remains and is half the fun of being a DJ.
+1
If only I could have bought all my vinyl with what is basically loose change.
Boomkat is pretty cool, whole albums in FLAC for $10
There are plenty of other choices out there besides beatport. Expand your online store selection. Also buy some vinyl while you’re at it so you can appreciate the price of a wav. Sorry but I’m siding with ‘it was tougher when it was vinyl’ guys. Shit has been drilling a hole in my wallet for a while.
Junodownload has almost all the tracks plus quite a nifty player option. Zero-inch.com has really cheap underground stuff, but it’s a pain in the arse to look for tracks properly.