| Flac files DRM free Would be the best choice. This would enable one to encode to ones desired bitrate.
Such as lame VBR or 320 for home stereo setups or a lower bitrate to fit more music on a portable mp3 player. Simply selling no quality 128 bitrate DRM free mp3's are just as bad as having DRM in the music and won't cut it.
One more thing, open the damn vaults of music out of print and hard to find. Make available music that was exported, or must be imported.
Another sticking point, sell songs individually by artist or entire album. Not purchase entire album or nothing.
Most of today's so called music sucks. Give music fans, what they want at a good price, with no DRM, or watch sales nose dive and P2P increase.
IMO, to compete with P2P, the labels must play on P2P home-field advantage of P2P usage. Offer customers, fast down loadable DRM free music. Offer a wider variety of music, where fans would have to go to to find that rare or odd song, perhaps the entire album.
Make the one or two good songs from today's music available singly, not everyone wants to pay for fluff or filler junk. Last but certainly not least, the cost must be very reasonable.
There is no need to press Cd's. There is no need to include that price in the down loading of music. Art work, Don't want to pay for it. One does not look at it while driving or while jamming tunes at a keg party. Artwork could be an option for those who wish to have it.
Anything less will be sure to fail.
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