http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/ Engadget Comments for Apple said to be charging $10,000 for iTunes LP production, cutting out indie labels http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/Oct 9th 2009 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/Oct 9th 2009 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/Oct 9th 2009 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/Oct 9th 2009 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/
1. this whole thing is not even 2 months old. making this a test run. so yeah, they are going to go with major labels and big artists to see if it's viable

2. what they charge a major might not be any sign of what they would charge an indie especially if they are working on some kind of SDK for the whole thing]]>Oct 9th 2009 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/
iTunes can still sell their songs like they always have... but offer photos, lyrics and videoclips on their own domain.

Chances are, an indie artist already has a website, and a YouTube channel, Myspace and Facebook page. They don't have the deep pockets of a huge record label, so they do a lot of promotion themselves...

What have we learned? Keep big corporation away from controlling your art. That's why they are "indie"]]>Oct 9th 2009 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/
How hard is it to type a few meta files, crop a few photos and then zip it up?

ridiculous.]]>Oct 9th 2009 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/
While I agree with you, my guess is they will make an SDK for it and that this is currently only a test run, they deserve all the flak that they get for this. Until they come out and say that there will be a better alternative than the current system we need to assume that this is how it is going to be and bitch about it until they see that there is a need for a better way to do this.]]>Oct 9th 2009 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/
an indie band can easily make them fast once they sell 1000 copies, from 1001, the money is yours. and you bet you are going to get tons of publicity from Apple, since they also seem to hate music labels.

And remember, this is Apple's playground, they aren't always doing the correct thing with pricing.]]>Oct 9th 2009 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/Oct 10th 2009 6:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/Oct 10th 2009 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/
Sounds like Apple is doing the same. But I guess business isn't ethical in modern times. ]]>Oct 10th 2009 11:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/Oct 9th 2009 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/Oct 9th 2009 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/
Then again, unless Apple themselves are producing the material that constituted the LP, that $10k is highway robbery.]]>Oct 9th 2009 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/
So I really don't see how, "Just buy the CD," helps out the Indie artist. Actually, it's cheaper to put your stuff on iTunes than mass produce it on a CD.

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But then, I also stand behind the Indie artist for not doing the whole LP crap, just put your music on there so you can be discovered and be happy about it. I also probably don't need all the extra buttloads of crap from an Indie artist.]]>Oct 9th 2009 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/
If the iTunes LP is trying to replace the normal LP, then the bundled audio should at minimum be "lossless CD" quality (at or around 800kbps per song) if not higher. If Apple went to the trouble of making an Apple Lossless codec, they might as well use it for once.]]>Oct 9th 2009 5:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/Oct 10th 2009 10:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/Oct 9th 2009 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/Oct 9th 2009 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/Oct 9th 2009 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/Oct 9th 2009 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/
I mean the fees involving in producing an LP. In other words, the fees to pay for producers, graphic artists, coders, film making/editing, and all that other work that goes into creating the material that goes along with the music in an LP.]]>Oct 9th 2009 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/Oct 9th 2009 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/
That statement suggests that Apple is actually making the LPs for artists, I'd like to find out more though. 10k is pretty much inline with what decent web designers get, if Apple is producing LPs then the cost would be justified.]]>Oct 9th 2009 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/Oct 9th 2009 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/
BTW the iTunes LP is not a bit of metadata with some media. It's actually a HTML 5 website, with CSS, media and all that crap bundled into a zip (I think zip), not saying that's amazing...

Rather LP is very comparable to a HTML 5 media rich website, which is what it is. Go get a quote for a 30-50 page html5 media dense website. $200 - $500 a page...

Hardly a ripoff, well unless u think web devs over charge; which I reckon they do, esp since most just use harvested code and templates
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They're not charging $10k just to sell it on iTunes... Apple is producing these things, and $10k isn't completely outrageous for the amount of work involved.

Are we sure they are completely cutting out indie labels? Or is it just that the indie labels don't have the $10k to do it?

I think it's understandable for them to do a trial with larger labels and more well-known artists, to show what the format is really capable of, and what sales it can produce.

Also, the band and record label ARE involved in the process of making the iTunes LP, Mark. They provide info, behind the scenes footage, pics, etc., and input.

And it costs more than 5cents to make an LP. And the record companies don't make them themselves... they outsource to large factories.

Anyways, a lot of talking out of one's ass in these comments, with very little information to go on in the first place...]]>Jan 6th 2010 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/
Not something I'm personally interested in downloading anyway, but whatever.]]>Oct 9th 2009 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/Oct 9th 2009 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/Oct 9th 2009 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/
and maybe apple might throw you a bone and drop a dollar off there macbook pro lines or any of there products.]]>Oct 9th 2009 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/Oct 9th 2009 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/
L2Grammar, Troll.]]>Oct 9th 2009 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/Oct 9th 2009 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/The Invention of Lying was a good movie, but you need to realize its only a movie. Just because you say something to a bunch of people doesn't mean they are actually going to believe it.]]>Oct 9th 2009 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/Oct 9th 2009 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/
Troll elsewhere. ]]>Oct 9th 2009 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/
The album is dead. Apple's just animating the corpse to milk the greedy cartels.]]>Oct 9th 2009 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/Oct 9th 2009 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/Oct 9th 2009 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/Agreed, however you left out the reason why they want to sell albums and hate the individual track option. If an album only has 1 to 3 good songs they only make $.99-$1.29 to $2.97 to $3.87 before any fees from Apple/Online distributor. If they could only sell albums online they would get some people to buy the whole album to just get a few songs similar to the way they sell physical CD's. Notice how their are no "single's" CDs anymore either?]]>Oct 9th 2009 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/Oct 9th 2009 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/
February 6, 2007 -- Thoughts on Music
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/

Amazon was one of the first stores to offer just that.]]>Oct 9th 2009 5:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/Oct 9th 2009 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/Oct 11th 2009 2:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/Oct 9th 2009 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/Oct 9th 2009 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/09/apple-said-to-be-charging-10-000-for-itunes-lp-production-cutt/Oct 9th 2009 4:28PM