beatport. sad.

robbmasters · Post by **robbmasters** » Wed May 16, 2007 9:06 pm

piZMo wrote:why don't you download form the US site then you pay the US rate $1.99>$2.49 which is equivalent to £1>£1.25 UK.

Two reasons:

1) You can't. BeatPort use your IP address to detect where you're coming from and price accordingly. This doesn't always work, so some people in the UK get US pricing, and some people in the EU get UK pricing. You can get around this using a proxy server, but then you increase the risk of having your account details intercepted (apparently).

2) I don't want to deal with a company that employs a xenophobic pricing policy. It's not like it costs them any more to ship tunes to the UK! They're just buying into the "dollar = pound" mentality that fuels "rip-off Britain".

Juno Download gets my money now. And they also do (some) WAVs too.

rajcoont · Post by **rajcoont** » Thu May 17, 2007 4:59 am

sorry for not taking the time to read this but i have non top ten bangers on beatport, just lick that link below and you will arrive at musical heaven....or at least hear something odd

rajcoont · Post by **rajcoont** » Thu May 17, 2007 5:00 am

and number two's coming in a couple weeks, less weird but still weird

Alexis Forge · Post by **Alexis Forge** » Thu May 17, 2007 5:11 am

did something happen there recently with the way you preview?

i went on recently and went to techno and I couldnt skip through in the way I used to - like you have to look for specific things now - it used to be grouped or something

I'm well out of the loop though

snakedogman · Post by **snakedogman** » Thu May 17, 2007 10:43 am

jonesonyou wrote:I am a fan of beatport. you get the wav option full studio quality wav. The best possible sound.

try buying an album's worth of wav downloads (in europe) and watch your creditcard burst into flames. It's cheaper just buying the cd.

robin · Post by **robin** » Thu May 17, 2007 10:44 am

snakedogman wrote:
jonesonyou wrote:I am a fan of beatport. you get the wav option full studio quality wav. The best possible sound.
try buying an album's worth of wav downloads (in europe) and watch your creditcard burst into flames. It's cheaper just buying the cd.

Cheaper than buying vinyl though. 12" costs 7 quid a pop. Sometimes for one track.

snakedogman · Post by **snakedogman** » Thu May 17, 2007 3:54 pm

yes, Beatport plays the "cheaper than vinyl" card to justify their pricing as well. That's still no reason why it should be more expensive than a cd imo.

trucker · Post by **trucker** » Thu May 17, 2007 4:59 pm

I have used Beatport quite a bit in the past to buy singles, and tba, never really thought much about the price. Until I tried to buy an album.

The album in question was Frequencies Fall by Pitch Black

The album is $17.88 on Beatport. This seemed a little expensive to me so I shopped around and found the same album on AudioJelly for £7.99 ($15.78 according to xe.com).

Since then, I haven't bought a single track from BP without checking other online stores for a better price.

Shop around - it is the only way you will get them to lower their prices.

beats me · Post by **beats me** » Thu May 17, 2007 5:12 pm

I think they will also lower their prices and get more traffic if they somehow figure out a better way to expose people to great fresh new tracks that change frequently. Say all you want about the in-store DJ crate deep digging experience comparison but a lot of the point of anything being on the Internet is convenience and being able to find what you are looking for quickly. I don't turn to the internet so I can emulate the BS parts of my in-store experiences.

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Tue May 29, 2007 5:45 pm

djadonis206 wrote:
beats me wrote:
As far as vinyl goes, and I made this argument in another thread. Show me any song that was supposedly vinyl only and I'll be able to download it for free within 2 weeks and nobody is getting paid for it. Also nobody on the dance floor is going to know it's 2 weeks old. You're really screwing yourself as an artist if you are going the vinyl only route.
Please find this one for me

Moby - Go (Trentemoller remix) 320bit file

thanks

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The track?

beats me · Post by **beats me** » Tue May 29, 2007 6:30 pm

djadonis206 wrote:
djadonis206 wrote:
beats me wrote:
As far as vinyl goes, and I made this argument in another thread. Show me any song that was supposedly vinyl only and I'll be able to download it for free within 2 weeks and nobody is getting paid for it. Also nobody on the dance floor is going to know it's 2 weeks old. You're really screwing yourself as an artist if you are going the vinyl only route.
Please find this one for me

Moby - Go (Trentemoller remix) 320bit file

thanks

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The track?

Heh heh, man. I was actually thinking about that last week. You win. But not because I couldn't find it but because I have just been too lazy to boot up my PC, which takes about 20 minutes to boot, and load soulseek. Given that, now can you see how an ass like myself would complain when I can't find great music on beatport within half a click?

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Wed May 30, 2007 1:54 am

beats me wrote:
djadonis206 wrote:
djadonis206 wrote: Please find this one for me

Moby - Go (Trentemoller remix) 320bit file

thanks

Ad

The track?

Heh heh, man. I was actually thinking about that last week. You win. But not because I couldn't find it but because I have just been too lazy to boot up my PC, which takes about 20 minutes to boot, and load soulseek. Given that, now can you see how an ass like myself would complain when I can't find great music on beatport within half a click?

No worries playa - I have it vinyl anywayz

peace - but DO hit me if you find it

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