No accounting for your iTunes purchases?
To my surprise, and contrary to earlier pronouncements, I’ve already bought 22 tracks from the NZ iTunes Store — including a couple of albums, three parts of an audiobook and one gift. So far, I’ve found the payment mechanism to be painless (perhaps a little too painless…), but I’m disappointed about the poor quality of track info supplied. The composer field was unpopulated in each of the tracks I’ve bought. I worry about this not only because I’m a completist, but because I wonder how Apple is accounting royalties to the composers. There are so many compositions out there with the same title that this seems like a recipe for royalty chaos — after all, millions of dollars in songwriting royalties sit in copyright society ‘suspense files’ around the world simply because the song title or composer’s name has been misspelt in the song’s registration. No doubt each song in the iTunes Store has a unique identifier, but I’m sure the owners are required to supply details of their compositions to Apple, so why isn’t this data being passed on to the consumer? After all, we’d get it on any CD we bought. Conversely, why isn’t there a better mechanism for us to feed what we already know about our purchases into Gracenote? In case you’re curious about what else I’ve bought, here, in the approximate order of purchase, is my first 15.
posted by Chris Bell at 8:42 PM
3 Comments:
Not my First XV but close. Martyn, Cooder, Eno, Frisell, Gorillaz - and Shaznay Lewis.
What a great album her solo debut "Open" is. Pop genius. It sounds like damning with faint praise to call her "the chief talent behind the popular girl group All Saints" as Wikipedia does, but she was and is.
Unless you're a teenager, by which I mean a snotty 14-year-old - 18 is adult - Itunes isn't a patch on Digirama or eMusic. That's if you want legal downloads :)
Perhaps you're deliberately couching your apparent surety that eMusic is "legal" behind the smiley, pirateking. When I contacted Gail Zappa to tell her it was possible to download most of Frank's music for free as part of its signup offer, and asked whether eMusic had permission to distribute FZ's music in this way, Gail replied:
"Nope - not as far as we are concerned. I will forward this info to my attorneys. Thanks, Chris! Happy New year to you and yours.
Music is the Best!
gz"
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