anyone been to www.cokefridge.co.nz
it has over 500,000 tracks to download. all international artists are there too.
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Here's a quiz on Coke Tunes (only answer if you want to):
1. Have you bought any music off Coke Tunes yet? Why/why not?
2. Do you plan on buying music off Coke Tunes in the future? Why/why not?
3. Do you download music via Kazaa/Limewire/BitTorrent/etc?
4. Is it OK to download music in certain circumstances? If so, when is it ok in your opinion?
There's an article in the latest Craccum which says "While all the students I talked to had different views on file-sharing, they all agreed that CokeTunes sucks and that they would probably never use it."
1. No. Because i can't pay them.
2. Yes. Because i find it hard with Kiwi artists. Often I like only one song off their CD, but have a deterrence to downloading them. I don't want to have to buy a CD for $25 for one song.
3. Yes.
4. Yes. It's ok if it's a b-side, an acoustic, a live preformance, if the artist is rolling in it and gets enough money from the brands they get paid to wear, and if it's not a kiwi artist. Though i do admit to downloading kiwi music in the past, but all except for one case i've ended up buying the CD. Scribe and P Money, i apologise.
2.)That's why they sell CD singles. But I think they're too expensive anyway. $4.95 for one hit track.
True, but if a particular song on an album hasn't been released, then you won't find it as a CD single.
Well, you do often get up to 4 tracks on a single - the radio version, the album version, a remix and the music video...
Somethnig like that.
Of course, not everyone wants that stuff.
Yeah all those other extra tracks are normally crap. I bought this single 6 years ago (I can't remember the name because I don't have it anymore) and the CD have 6 sings on it and 5 of them are remix, I don't need bloody need 5 remix.
lol! Yeah. Often the songs i want aren't out in singles, and even if they were, i really don't think i'd buy them.
Nobody warned me of how dangerous eftpos cards are though. I wish they had. Flip knows where that $80 went. Probably on sandwiches and chapsticks i don't need.
Here's my answers:
1. No. It doesn't work with Firefox which stops me even browsing the site to see if I like it.
2. No. I'd rather wait till iTunes comes out here.
3. Yes, sometimes but never kiwi music.
4. Technically, no. However, sometimes it is impossible to buy the song you want (e.g. from years ago) or I just want to listen to some new music (the radio gets boring) and if I like it, I'll go out and buy the cd. If I don't, I'll delete it. I don't see this as any different to going down to the CD store in my lunch break and listening to a stack of CDs, then buying a couple I like. If I had never downloaded some tracks, I'd never have bought some albums - and some of these I've imported since I liked them so much.
Agree with point 4 completely. I'd never have bought albums if I haven't downloaded and listened first.
Is iTunes *ever* coming out here?
With Coketunes, I really don't like the fact that you have to install new software to be able to use it. I hate my computer being waterlogged with all this extra software. Having said that, iTunes works like a snap: ripping and transferring music to the iPod very fast.
1. No - I already use something better
2. No - I already use something better
3 Yes - I use ARES from www.aresgalaxy.org, its free and faster!
4. If you want just one song instead of buying an album, especially if the song wasnt released as a single
Found the below pic on the net - LOL
Too funny -
Yer I've heard about Ares.. Apparently it's the next best thing since Kazza in it's golden day's. Eww and I've heard Limewires under attack from the Muzo industry.
What do you mean under attack from the Muzo industry? Are you saying that there's a possibility that Limewire will soon be part of the history?
If I'm readin you right, then yup Limewires fast heading down the same road as Kazza with 'bots' screwing up files etc...
ooooooooh. I should start downloading all the stuff that I want from Limewire before it's too late. :-#
1. No. I haven't even been to the site, but I haven't heard overly good reviews.
2. No. If I'm going to buy music, I'd rather buy the CD so that I have it in hard copy. I burn copies of my CDs to take in the car.
3. I rip individual songs if I like them. Otherwise I'll buy the CD.
4. Let's just say that I would never rip an album with the intention of on-selling. I also refuse to rip NZ music. I think NZ artists struggle enough as it is so I'm forever buying new kiwi music.
1.)No, because Limewire is better and it's FREE.
2.)No, refer to #1.
3.)Yes, GO LIMEWIRE!!! :party:
4.)It's ok when you think it's ok.
1. No - because the only payment options are credit card and Telecom mobile - neither of which I use/have access to.
2. Yes, if the forementioned problem is sorted and the payment options broadened. $1.75 is a good price for a single, vs $4.95 or whatever it is in the shops for a single. [update] - it also depends on the bit rate. If you're an audiophile and want the purest sound possible, you're probably going to want store-bought for the clearest music.
3. Not a lot. I have before in the past if I couldn't find something legally (NZ can be pretty slow in getting newer not-so-well-known artists)
4. Probably not. I do find though, that if I do and I like it, I tend to buy it.
So - I'm not sure about paying to stream....
In a music store you can listen to an album for free (albeit not in the comfort of your own home).
I raised my issue with cokefridge and got the following response -
Cool! At least they are planning to have more payment options in the near future.
Anyone have a spare credit card I can borrow?
lol jokes.
I checked out the site and it seems cool *BUT* you have to use a credit card or Telecom Mobile SMS to pay for the songs. I'm on Vodafone and I also don't have a credit card. Why can't they set it up so you direct credit from your bank account, like the DVD/Computer Game site www.gumboot.co.nz?
I reckon a lot of younger people don't have credit cards, either. I'm not a big music downloader off the net (I have dial-up), but I have occasionally downloaded the odd hard-to-find song illegally. I would love to take advantage of the Coke site ($1.75 a song seems very fair to me), but how would I pay?
I think they have to make a bigger effort, and make as many payment options available as they can; a credit card simply isn't a big enough option.
*True* Most people who download stuff from the net are teenagers. I'm sure only a few of them have credit cards. Coke Fridge should think outside the box. The same thing can be said to Amazon, Real Groovys and Sounds.
If you try using iTunes to convirt the songs into iPod format then it may just work, however i do not know, i do not have a iPod
Yes, iTunes will convert .wma to .aac (or MP3 I think)
ps, iTunes is free to download from apple, even if you don't have an iPod.
I think only the Windows version converts it though. If you want to do it on a mac, check out http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Audio/EasyWMA.shtml
It's FREE and does the conversion for you Mac owners.
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must check out that site some time
Why should I pay if I can get mp3s for free. Why can't they also make them in mp3 format, after all we're gonna pay for them.
Yeah but do you have the availability and quality of the coke fridge?
I've found that when I've gotten mp3s they are actually incomplete
Where do you get your mp3s from? I haven't had a problem with my peer-to-peer software since last January. I have more than 1000 mp3s on my computer and all of them are complete and their all clear.
Well there you go.
Some of the songs I get clip the end off, or if I'm attempting to get newer songs they simply don't work.
Unfortunately not everything's available on P2P
What's your P2P Software? I'm with Limewire and it's the best! No troubles at all and definitely no Spywares!
Limewire is the coolest!
Yeah! The Best P2P software since Napster was made.
I downloaded Limewire once....and it sucked.
It made the computer go...real....slooowww
So now I've got Morpheus, which I'm more than happy with.
There's a software you could download from the internet and its purpose is to make your computer fast when you're using a P2P software. I think it's called Download Accelerator?
Is it pop-ups free?
I'm not sure. My friend told me about it after he told me about Limewire. Just check their website and you might find some infos about it.
Yeah, it's "Advertisement Supported" so I guess it comes with pop-ups.
I recon 'K Lite's' the best...
K-Lite was ok but so many of the songs are corrupted, bad quality, wouldn't pay on my computer after i downloaded them. And I got SO many viruses. Limewire is great, i haven't had a problem with it at all so far.
Nah.. Kazaa use to be good but then I started getting songs with that screeching sound? Ugh.
Ewww not kazaa! Green ugly rat ** kazaa! I've got a hybrid version (And I don't think its legal lol)That screeching sound was done on purpose to put people off downloading illegal music. *glares* lol. And I thought that happened across all p2p networks?
Kazaa is a work of an evil person. It's the reason why I didn't get to use the computer for two weeks last year. Kazaa is a piece of crap! Switch to Limewire guys!
I think that record companies are seeding P2P networks like Kazaa with fake versions of songs - eg, with 10 seconds of song and the rest silence. I hadn't used Kazaa for AGES and then went to try and find something hard-to-find a little while ago. Whilst a lot of names came up, and I tried 2 or 3 times, most songs were the fake ones.
Bit of a waste of time trying, I think..
That happened to me as well. I uninstalled it, downloaded it again and reinstalled. It works fine now.
yep it's in the ad -->
plusses:
minuses:
digirama is actually cheaper than cocktunes.
i've found a number of songs on digirama that cocktunes doesn't have
i was able to upload my band's album onto digirama to sell, who knows how i would get my music on cocktunes. i would be impressed if coke donated profits from their soft drink sales back into the NZ music scene, seeing as profits from digital downloads will be bugger all.
i think digirama is a better website with better features + it works in firefox
OK, but digirama doesn't have the rights so sell songs from certain companies. If you look at certain CDs (particularly soundtracks) on the site, there are songs left off 'cause they don't have the rights to them.
She's a hard road finding the perfect seller, boy..
Yeah that's the sucky bit.
But from what i've heard they are inches away from signing 2 more major labels, one of which coketunes aint got, so that'll be good.
Not sure how to handle your last minus, but you can convert the .wma to MP3 for mac using easyconvert -
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Audio/EasyWMA.shtml
MP3 files will play in yr iPod