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.

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.

as long as it's lossless.

I hate MP3.

One can dream...

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

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...

Isn't music DRM free everywhere now?

Pretty much, except for streaming services, but that's to be expected.

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.

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.

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: .
And special performances like: 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.

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.

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.