Would you buy music on your mobile phone?

Tom Dunne

Just reading an article about Nokia signing up another record label for it's upcoming music store.

But I wonder is there a market for it? If you could purchase music directly on your phone, without the need for a PC, would you?

Personally, since I have bought the iPhone, I am spending €10-€20 a month on music, most of it bought directly on the phone via iTunes.

And if you would purchase music, which model would you use - the subscription (e.g. €X a month, essentially paying for a radio station) or direct purchase (like iTunes, where you own the songs)?

helios

The Nokia Music store is decent, but they need to get more labels onto it. The big advantage that iTunes has, is that its catalogue is massive. I like OTA music buying, especially if I hear a tune I like on the radio and I want to buy it, but I know I'll forget it if I wait until I get home.

I personally think it's going to become more mainstream as more devices can use the service, and if the manufacturers can keep a good catalogue.

I have a Nokia N78 which I can access the music store from, but the offerings are a bit slim...

1huge1

I've only ever done it once and that was through the 3 music store (The Verve- The drugs don't work), had a sudden craving for that song and I had to hear it, the 3 music store is fairly handy and cheap so I could understand why a lot of people would use it, all the same I have my own ways of getting music....

Sam Vimes

helios wrote: »

The Nokia Music store is decent, but they need to get more labels onto it. The big advantage that iTunes has, is that its catalogue is massive. I like OTA music buying, especially if I hear a tune I like on the radio and I want to buy it, but I know I'll forget it if I wait until I get home.

personally, i set a reminder but i'm old school

edit:and very cheap

Creamy Goodness

nope i still love to have something solid.

nothing like going into a shop buying a CD/vinyl, reading the booklet on the way home smelling the cardboard/the vinyl and then being able to lash in on and hear it as it's meant to be and not as compressed digital air.

call me old fashioned but nothing from the download generation will ever top that experience.

Tom Dunne

Cremo wrote: »

nope i still love to have something solid.

Do you mind me asking you why?

I listen to most, if not all, of my music through some form of computer and/or phone (I commute on the train every day). So a CD would be very cumbersome. I actually found myself sneering at a man on the train yesterday who had a CD walkman.

At home, I have a media-center PC where all my music is stored, so again, have no use for CDs.

I haven't actually seen any of the other phone-based music stores, are they easy to use?

I won't start a flamewar about how easy (too friggin' easy) it is to buy music on the iPhone.

Creamy Goodness

ohh i'm not saying i don't have my music is some sort of digital format. i do commute everyday too and it's just easier to use digital for that.

it's just i feel there's something good about sticking on a cd/vinyl on a good sound system with good headphones, kicking back and relaxing.

there's also a bit of a collector in me too, i love seeing album art on a huge vinyl sleeve, also with the likes of itunes you can transfer your music to five devices, so one for ipod, one for pc if you format your pc and download the songs again that counts as another device, so say if i did forget to back up my digitally bought music 5 times i did a format, my music would be gone and i'd have to re-buy it.

i know i'm straying a bit from the whole mobile aspect of it but i just find it better having a physical copy that i can make clones off if i need to and when i need to.

Sephiroth_dude

In the last 2wks i've stopped buying cds and am now using itunes.

jimmii

Its handy putting it straight on to the phone instead of having to do it via computer as I prefer to just use my phone as an mp3 player instead of having to carry round a seperate one. It will be interesting to see how the nokia store goes. I'm sure they will push it like crazy so it could work out well for them.

Rsaeire

I find any online music store that uses DRM in 2008 to be completely out of the loop and seriously misinformed as to what the general public want. There is absolutely no need for DRM as it is needlessly restrictive, awkward and causes problems when there shouldn’t be any to begin with. If iTunes can be one of the most, if not the most, successful online music stores without DRM, then there is hope for the others who are trailing far behind.

Run_to_da_hills

Cremo wrote: »

nope i still love to have something solid.

nothing like going into a shop buying a CD/vinyl, reading the booklet on the way home smelling the cardboard/the vinyl and then being able to lash in on and hear it as it's meant to be and not as compressed digital air.

call me old fashioned but nothing from the download generation will ever top that experience.

What about Vinyl scratching programs like Serato Scratch, best of both worlds, will work with CDJ's and 1210's. I use both and will go no where without a back up of hard copies. MP3s are fine if you want to download the latest hit on your phone while you are in the middle of playing a gig.

Walkman

I buy off the 3 music store all the time. Mainly cause its so easy and im so lazy.:)