Do we accept too little from “Premium” EDM Download sites
Hi,
The forums have been pretty quiet today so I decided to ask a question that I’ve been thinking about lately. Are we accepting too little in our product from premium download sites (Beatport Juno etc). For what they charge and that they are catering to DJs (generally or people that just enjoy playing around with a digital dj program (like me)) and charging a pretty high price for the .mp3s purchased shouldn’t they have the key and bpms tagged already before purchase. And in the case of Beatport the whole native instruments partnership thing makes me think this even more.
Interesting thought… I recently began subscribing to 8th Wonder for music videos, and was pleasantly surprised to notice that tracks I download from them actually showed up in my VDJ library with bpm and key info, when I normally would have to scan them first.
Purchase. Download. Mixed In Key. Mp3Gain. Itunes (Add cover art and correct tags that lazy beatport doesn’t do). Traktor. Grid. Skip the play part cos you are bored to tears and just start drinking.
Can’t believe people are complaining about having to key and even more so grid. Just think yourselves lucky you aren’t using vinyl. I guarantee that would take a hell of a lot longer.
Yes it would. But to be honest- I really second the idea of getting a track all fixed up, that way you could focus on the important part of setting cues and not so much on fiddling with beatgrids.
For me now it’s:
Puchase
Platinum Notes
Mixed in Key
Add to iTunes + check tags
Grid
Set Hotcues
I’d wish we could simply form a community and exchange tracks sans the last point between each other.
It’s not going to happen. They already sell the tracks at the rice they;re set at noe so why would they add a feature, especially on that will take actual people to do. Plus there’s the heartache of when the key is wrong or the grid is off. The only way i could see this working is of the label did it first.
Well compared to a conventional CD the price of an mp3 is a little steep compared to what you get for it.
No coverart (although some offer it though)
Track in “lower” quality (a 1411kbps wav vs een 320kbps mp3)
You don’t have the track in a physical way ofcourse.
And then ofcourse, they could make up for that with things like the BPM, Key, Grid in the track’s tags.
Now, something else:
We have another big problem overhere when it comes to purchasing music online.
Here in Belgium there’s something called “SABAM”, it’s a society of authors, artists and publishers who are protecting copyrighted music. They “invade” parties, get taxes on music and we basicly call them the maffia lol.
When you buy a legal mp3 and you pay a certain tax on that. A little piece of that tax goes to SABAM, so the artist gets a little piece of that little piece of tax eventually.
If you’re a CD-DJ, you buy blank CD-R’s, where you pay a certain tax on. Same story with the tax as with the mp3. When you organize a party, you have to pay a flat-rate amount to SABAM for the music you’re gonna play at that party, again… same story.
So after all those “taxes” and stuff like that, you think that you’re doing the right thing and that you’re paying to DJ with legally bought material? right?
WRONG! When they invade a party and they catch you playing an mp3 burned onto a cd, you’re still using that track illegally according to them. You can only use it on the original carrier, which is the Laptop/PC/Mac where you’re downloaded the track on. If you want to burn that track on to a CD and DJ with it, you’ll have to buy a “DJ Licence”, which is like 400$ a year.
I know this has little to do with the original topic of this thread, but still… I used to buy a lot of vinyl and when I think of that compared to buying an mp3, it’s just not worth it. So I also stopped buying mp3’s basicly
