{"id":553,"date":"2006-07-09T00:13:52","date_gmt":"2006-07-09T07:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/?p=553"},"modified":"2006-07-09T00:13:52","modified_gmt":"2006-07-09T07:13:52","slug":"itunes-isbogus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/itunes-isbogus\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes iSbogus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article over at downhillbattle.org (whose <a href=\"http:\/\/downhillbattle.org\/postal\/index.php\">t-shirt<\/a> I love and wear regularly) about iTunes and the accounting behind their &#8220;artist-friendly&#8221; business model. Before I got the Amoeba job I used to use iTunes to get some of my music. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d go back. DRM issues aside, my main gripe is the sound quality of the downloads. There&#8217;s too much high frequency. Too little of the earth-shaking rumble. It&#8217;s a fine music library tool, simple and effective, which combine to form &#8220;elegant&#8221; in my book, but I would never be satisfied with the piping nasality of their proprietary compression nightmare.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.downhillbattle.org\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"downhillbattle.org\" title=\"downhillbattle.org\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/blog\/images\/0706\/artistscut.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The article is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downhillbattle.org\/itunes\/\">here<\/a>, and it gets into the specifics of money distribution to illustrate just how little each artists get from a sale. It&#8217;s not necessarily anti-iTunes, but it does try to make the point that Apple isn&#8217;t as kind to the artist as it once claimed to be. They do make the point that Apple&#8217;s improving a little, and that quality indie distribs like <a href=\"http:\/\/cdbaby.com\/cd\/jennifergetz\">CD-Baby<\/a> have a foot (or two) in the iTunes doorway.<br \/>\n. . .<\/p>\n<p>And as long as I&#8217;m poking around on the Internet and showing you shit, check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/posts\/2006\/07\/08\/adam-carolla-hangs-up-on-coulter\/\">nifty little exchange<\/a> between Adam Carolla (of Love Lines and The Man Show fame) and Ann Coulter. She is very late calling his show. He is not exactly accomodating.<\/p>\n<p>Later.<\/p>\n<p>(is &#8220;nasality&#8221; a neologism?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article over at downhillbattle.org (whose t-shirt I love and wear regularly) about iTunes and the accounting behind their &#8220;artist-friendly&#8221; business model. Before I got the Amoeba job I used to use iTunes to get some of my music. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d go back. DRM issues aside, my main gripe is the sound quality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,19,3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}