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11Music Pin: Could This Replace the CD?
Filed Under (Marketing and Promotion, Music Business) by FuNkwoRm on 11-02-2009
Tagged Under : cds, Marketing, Music Business
Music Pin is a company that has developed a way for artists to put music, that can be downloaded by their fans, on a format about the size of a business card. I’m really feelin’ this one. Hope it catches on.
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uhh.. i dunno about the pin thing… how will it work? becuase i know when i go buy a cd.. the first thing that i wanna do is listen to it immediately in the car n bump it on the way home… i dont really have the patience to wait til i get home to search on the new n all that haha…
Abstrakt, thats very true, but when a new media technology becomes popular, all other products have to accommodate for it. Remember when cars had cassette decks. lol. I believe that there will be internet access in all cars in a few years. It could take a while, but how cool would it be to have your album and media on a business card?
Sounds cool but I think it’s too much work. If your gonna end up going back to the computer to get it in the end and still have to go out to the store to buy it, why not save the time and just download it off itunes? But it’s a really cool idea about how you get all that information too. I thought it was kind of lame that she gave up her music career to do this. Like, theres probably more money in doing this but it’s sad to see she gave up her music. Like she sold her soul to the devil man.
Wow Mark, don’t be so hard on her. She’s just being an entrepreneur and trying to create a service that’s helpful to independent artists. This is still a business. I think whats being missed here is that this is in a format that enables you to sell your music physically to a fan without carrying CDs. Lets say after a performance, you want to sell your music. You can hand them this product that has a unique code that has access to all of your media (not just music) in exchange for cash. Hoping that they will go to itunes afterwards won’t guarantee a sale. The manufacturing of this has got to be cheaper as well. I don’t know, I think this is innovative.
Yeah, here’s a simpler and less expensive idea: How about just printing some business cards with links to your site (or store) that actually has the music for them to download. So they still have your contact info and a link to get to it. It’s the same thing right? Only cheaper. I agree with funkworm. I don’t see this Music Pin thing really being that practical until the accompanying technology is in place (your car, etc.)
As technology gets better and better, electronics such as the flash drive will get cheaper and cheaper. You can already get a 1gb flash drive for less than $5. I have a feeling most media will be converted to a small storage device, similar to, if not the same as a flash drive. Businesses are already sending out flash drives as business cards with presentations or samples of work, or presentations on them. Internet downloading and iTunes won’t come to an end any time in the near future, but more and more electronics are incorporating a usb hub – phones, car head units.. speaking of which.. if I had one of these headunits, I’d get a 64gb flash drive (they have those, and possibly bigger now..) and put most of my music collection on it.. awesome
i agree with jesse james. i think they should put the music, videos, & pics on flash drives. car stereo’s already have usb hubs. this way you can go to the music store pick up your favorite artist flash drive packed with all the info they want to give you, leave out the store and plug the flash to your car stereo and ride away bangin. if you have a screen on your car stereo you can watch the videos too.
How is saying that its a good idea but it’s sad that someone stopped their music to make money on something else being hard on someone?
It’s cool, Mark. I understand your point. Maybe it was the selling of her soul to the devil that I thought was a bit hard. But in the end I’d much rather have ex-musicians being hands-on with these technologies than some white collar corporate lame who doesn’t know shit about the industry.
Ya I guess that does sound a little harsh. But yeah that is a good point, at least she is doin something to help out a lot of other musicians.