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Music Labels to launch CMX, a new digital album format.
- ajg1977 17y agoI would love to know why they think this has any chance of success without the support of the iTunes eco system.
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- jrockway 17y agoNo thanks. All of this stuff already works with existing Mp3 and Ogg containers. We don't really need a new format.
- maukdaddy 17y agoKnowing the labels they're going to price it more expensively than a normal album. I'm betting on $20.
- pavel_lishin 17y agoIt's the convenience fee! Isn't that convenient.
- awaken 17y agoYeah, but that's just because of the expense of a new media type. As the media becomes cheaper to duplicate, I'm sure the price will drop... Wait...
- radley 17y ago"Ours will be a file that you click on, it opens and it would have a brand new look, with a launch page and all the different options. When you click on it you're not just going to get the 10 tracks, you're going to get the artwork, the video and mobile products." We call it... CD-ROM.
- absconditus 17y agoThe idea of some kind of standardized method to bundle audio tracks, liner artwork, etc. is a good idea. If they are planning to use something other than MP3 and/or FLAC for the audio tracks I can't see how this will succeed. Even FLAC would be questionable because of iTunes/iPod support. If one were to create such a standardized bundling format I can't imagine spending more than a day developing it. The bundle itself should be something simple like a ZIP file with a different extension. The audio files could be MP3. The artwork could be PDF.
- ryanwaggoner 17y agoIf one were to create such a standardized bundling format I can't imagine spending more than a day developing it. But they didn't develop it: they almost certainly hired some IT consulting firm who billed them six or seven figures and spent months (or years) coming up with this ground-breaking innovation.
- trafficlight 17y agoThey never learn from past mistakes.
- jmtame 17y agomight as well call it exe...
- J_McQuade 17y agoBut surely that's assuming it'll only work on Windows... ... oh, wait. Carry on.
- yan 17y agoSomeone will definitely write a tool to extract raw audio from this DRM'ed sausage of a format.
- leviathant 17y agoWhen I downloaded "The Slip" off Nine Inch Nails' website (for free), I chose the 320kbps MP3 package... each MP3 had embedded artwork and lyrics, and the album came with a PDF that had artwork, lyrics, credits, and all that. Their previous release (Ghosts) came with desktop & mobile wallpapers, as well. Both were released under the Creative Commons license, with "Ghosts" being listed by the band on sites like The Pirate Bay, Waffles and What.cd on the hour of their release. I later bought The Slip's physical release - the CD came with a DVD with rehearsal videos of nearly every song on the album. (it also came with... stickers!) I'm betting the revenue from both of those legally-free-to-download releases will be more than all the profit made from sales of CMX-format albums combined.
- yan 17y agoBecause talented musicians, providing value to the consumer and intelligent music marketing has very little to do with container formats. edit: (totally off topic, but i can't wait to see them in NY the 25th. NIN is my favorite band. Saw LiTS tour four times last year.)
- Tiktaalik 17y agoApple working on their own format? Mmmm I love lock-in.
- dtf 17y agoIn case you're wondering how this could get any sorrier: U2 will be involved in the "soft-launch".