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General discussion (archive)Site Feature Request: DRM-Free Music with extras(17 posts)(17 posts)
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Posted January 17, 2013
GOG asks.. "what's the next big step for GOG.com?"

how about...

DRM-Free Music with extras such as lyrics, extra cuts, behind the scenes content, art, ++
If you agree, please vote here.
Post edited January 17, 2013 by WhiteElk
Posted January 17, 2013
DRM-free music (just indie though, I'm quite sure), extras are up to the artist.
Posted January 17, 2013
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Miaghstir: DRM-free music (just indie though, I'm quite sure), extras are up to the artist.
I like Bandcamp a lot. You can stream everything, they offer tons of formats, and they seem pretty fair to artists.
Posted January 17, 2013
I'd rather they just clean up the tags for their soundtracks.
Posted January 17, 2013
as long as it's lossless.

I hate MP3.
Posted January 17, 2013
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Fuzzyfireball: I'd rather they just clean up the tags for their soundtracks.
One can dream...
Posted January 17, 2013
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WhiteElk: GOG asks.. "what's the next big step for GOG.com?"

i say..
DRM-Free Music with extras such as lyrics, extra cuts, behind the scenes content, art, ++
If you agree, please vote here.
Well, I can agree if the music is game-related and is being sold separately elsewhere.

http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/sell_drmfree_game_music_soundtracks_seperately_like_amazon_or_itunes_if_they_cant_appear_here_as_free_bonus_content
Posted January 17, 2013
i think GOG has new things to offer in a digital music market. Taking bonus content, value, and community involvement to a degree yet unseen in digital music sales. And GOG has my trust. i'd rather buy music from GOG than from others. Has earned a solid reputation, and has grown a large customer base which grows ever larger. GOG doing music seems a natural step. Then perhaps onto books and movies...
Posted January 17, 2013
Isn't music DRM free everywhere now?
Posted January 17, 2013
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StingingVelvet: Isn't music DRM free everywhere now?
Pretty much, except for streaming services, but that's to be expected.
Posted January 17, 2013
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StingingVelvet: Isn't music DRM free everywhere now?
So they allow user to make copies and use between devices.. with no hassles and limits and such?

Even if, i think GOG has a unique place in the digital music market. i've lost a significant amount of music investment when Microsoft and Yahoo music services went off-line. i've yet to buy any digital music since. But from GOG i surely would. And i would enjoy some album extras, just as GOG does with games.
Posted January 17, 2013
You mean for that contest? I wrote down that they have to start commercializing the games they have. It doesn't have to be any harder than their weekly video on youtube, just show a trailer, show some energy, show why new customers should come to GOG and risk their money on a game they might not have ever heard of.
Posted January 17, 2013
Another aspect of the unique service that GOG could provide:

Access to rare recordings and other content. Such as from programs like [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Midnight_Special_(TV_series)]The Midnight Special[/url]. Extended music videos of rare, live performances by top bands. New versions to old songs, live and recorded beautifully. Examples:

Fly Like an Eagle ~ Steve Miller

She ~ KISS

..and many, many more Midnight Specials
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And special performances like:

Of Wolf And Man ~ Metallica with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

And covers like:
Time by Pink Floyd ~ as covered by dcinstinct
...and more ++
A "hard to get" eclectic variety of Music Videos with Audio versions playable unrestricted on any of a users devices.

Rare versions of music and related content. And Garage Bands, and One-Man Bands, and Blue Man Group and a whole lot more. Stuff that ain't easily out there. Access to hidden moments of music history. A library for the unique. And more.. the stuff that ain't out there "easy" and reasonable.
Post edited January 17, 2013 by WhiteElk
Posted January 17, 2013
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WhiteElk: So they allow user to make copies and use between devices.. with no hassles and limits and such?
That's what DRM free means, yes. Amazon and iTunes both just sell you unprotected MP3s now and have for like 6 years. Not sure about other stores.
Posted January 17, 2013
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StingingVelvet: Isn't music DRM free everywhere now?
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WhiteElk: So they allow user to make copies and use between devices.. with no hassles and limits and such?
You're darn tootin' they do. I have a ton of Amazon MP3's and have never encountered a rights issue, and I've done a lot of copying and moving things around and even playing under linux which cant play old protected content. The same can not be said for the one or two things I bought pre-DRM removal.

Music is one of the few easily obtainable DRM-free, therefore easily used, digital items out there. My advice stock up. I think they(amazon) even have something like 1000 albums for $5 this month (its usually 100)

Its shocking it turned out that way, and 10 years ago I never would have thought the industry would have allowed it, but now it does, and I waiting for e-books to play catchup.
Post edited January 17, 2013 by gooberking
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