Deutsche Grammophon has open an online digital music store and although most mass retrieve about invading Poland when they mind to Wagner , the classical euphony label is showing all those punks and hippies from Apple and Microsoft how to do a right on-line music storehouse :
• First , their memory is international . you’re able to buy from anywhere in the planet with no dazed geographical limits .
• Second , they are not only publishing their current monumental catalog , but reviving out - of - print transcription as sole downloads . A hundred of them are available now and a thousand will be in the next weeks after launch .
• And finally , the music is all DRM - spare ( YES ! ) so it can toy in the iPod , Zune or preferred MP3 - compatible player .
Prices are $ 1.29 for a full track ( that ’s oodles of medicine in the classical euphony world ) to $ 11.99 for an album , which often come with PDF booklets cover the materials , like actual compact disc editions do . Unfortunately for classical music lunatic , the track encode in MP3 data formatting . Fortunately , they come beautifully encoded at 320kbps , so most people except Pear - line purchaser wo n’t be capable to tell the difference .
And the even - more - lurid news : Deutsche Grammophon is owned by , hold on to your seats , Universal . Daa - daa - duuum ! indeed . [ Deutsche GrammophonviaCreate Digital Music ]
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