I pressed 1000 cds of my debut release, a double cd digipack.an unknown musician pressing that much in this market place was crazy, but the reality was/is that to press less would mean the cost would be much more per unit, so I could not pass that along to potential listeners, so pressing more than I thought I could sell to keep cost down even though that meant sitting on inventory that may or may not move in the future, was the only way to go! I fear that if I wait for my music to pay for itself than I will be waiting a long time before I release anything else.not questioning your business perspective, just not the model I came into this with. Hi Stephen.Quite so, but we must also listen to our audience I ship fast and pack really well.įrom my experience ebay is fine, Im not a major player so perhaps Ive just been lucky. I never end auctions early when someone asks privately. Lots of good photo's of the item for sale.a picture's worth a thousand words. How the item is priced tells a lot as well. I check the sellers other items for sale or sold recently. If its expensive there should be detailed large pictures of the item. There are certain things I avoid.I never buy something that does not actually show the item for sale. I got positive feedback and the buyer got a mint drum machine with a very unfriendly user interface which I think was the cause of the buyers frustrations.Įbay / Paypal works very well and you do pay for it. We emailed over a few weeks and finally the part of the drum machine that apparently was not working didnt warrant the effort to return it. Still I was prepared to refund the buyer and cover return shipping cost. After a few days the buyer got in touch with me saying it was not working properly which was hard to imagine as I had had it a little over six months and hardly used it. The last thing I sold on ebay in december 2010 was a Jomox analog drum machine to a person in Greece. A good portion of my sales were international. I have used ebay for years as a buyer and seller. Theres a tactile feeling in the digi thats totally lacking in a plastic cd jewel case. In some ways the digipack is closer to a book format, or I should say book quality. Ive broken many jewel cases over the years trying to get the cd liner cards out of the cases. Booklets et el are more accessible than jewel cases. All areas of artwork are better represented.a number of cover finishes are available from matte, semi gloss to gloss. On the upside, they are cheaper to manufacture.though the cost difference between a digi and a jewel case has recently become considerably less.įor me the ultimate release format is the Digipack. After some use the jewel case can take on the appearance of an ice skating ring. Dont drop a jewel case on a tile floor or any hard floor. lots of my jewel case hinges have broken which is easy to fix with more plastic. Not a fan of any plastic, not just for environmental reasons. Nice continuation on the other threads Jim! ?Ībout the only good thing I can say about the plastic jewel case is that when you leave your front seat passenger car window open with cd's sitting there and it rains, ones digipacks dont fair so well. Possible devices like the iPod, but it is a sorry format, like the 8 track and in some ways the cassette.there you go, the tape cassette and the walkman, the mp3 and the iPod, the 24bit and the. The mp3 was/is an effective way of dealing with the inadequacies of our bandwidth and making I welcome any increase in audio fidelity especially if it means getting rid of compressed audio. This is especially true from a global perspective and it illustrates the point.our bandwidth is not up to the task and as far as the masses go.Things may be some what faster today but not to appease the masses. Within audio production, I remember reading a few years back that mastering engineers have clients that prefer to download via FTP their 24bit audio 74 min music which can takes a day to download because its still faster than overnight express by carrier of choice for a physical disc. As an Apple loving American with 2 Mac's in my studio I think this is about sales, for what, we will have to wait and see.įorrest's concerns are well founded.this could be really something for file based music and a further weakening of the compact disc, except you still have the download problem. What could be more exciting is how it spins and where such technology goes. Anything they develop regarding 24 bit play back has this in mind. Anything Apple does is motivated by one lling more hardware.
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