iTunes (or other service) to CD

[stiltman]

I have a friend of my wifes that has a list of songs she wants burn to CD. Since I got a letter from my ISP stating the MPAA tracked a few downloads from emule, I no longer download music or movies illeagly. The friend said she would pay me to download music from a service, as she doesn't have a computer or internet. I was thinking iTunes, but I've never used it before. So is there a service I can download songs from leagally and then burn me to CD? After burning them to CD, I'll just be uninstalling everything.

edit: also is itunes the least expensive leagal service?

[SquirrelDip]

The telephone company here sells them - don't know what they have or if they sell to the US but you can check them out here:

http://www.mytelus.com/music/puretracks.vm

(I don't use them but I recall seeing an advert in one of my phone bills)

Cheers!

[yoda313]

Hi,

Itunes has a built in audio cd burning utility. Just select the tracks you want to burn and click the burn button in the upper right hand corner. (make sure you select audio cd in the preferences under burning options).

Kevin

[Shadow57]

Hi Stilt...

I subscribe to Rhapsody.

I enjoy the streaming music but I've never burned any tunes.

You can find info here.....

www.listen.com

I don't know how much each tune costs per burn.
That info should be on the site.

By the way, the music quality is great, hooked up through the stereo.

EDIT............

I looked for the burn price and I can't find it!

I saw .99 per song for something. The last burn price I
saw last year was .79 per song (plus $9.95/month subscription).

[bazooka]

Itunes is a legal service. You can even burn discs from the Itunes interface.

[yoda313]

Hi,

One thing I'll give for Itunes as well is no subscription necessary. Just pay for the songs you want. Now you can't get bulk deals like limitless downloads for a flat fee. But if you want just a few songs now and then without getting stuck with another monthly fee Itunes is ideal.

Kevin

[Darth Paris]

I have used napster, and it works well. It is 99 cents per song, and you can burn right for there.

[jackal70058]

Charter Music is a subscription service you can add to you Charter High Speed Internet bill. Suppose be great but I don't have their Internet service. I am using the DSL.

[stiltman]

Looks like the price is $0.99 with some that require subscription and others don't.


Technically, will this be leagal for me to do this for someone?

Install iTunes on my computer
Download the songs they want
Burn songs to a CD
Uninstall iTunes (delete downloaded songs)
Charge person for songs and CD burning services?

[yoda313]

Hi,

The last one will get you in trouble if caught Same as burning a movie and selling it

kevin

[Darth Paris]

Hi,
Same as burning a movie and selling it
kevin

Not exactly. The content on the disk is legal. A copied DVD is not. I would say that it is no different then making a back up of someones PC for a charge. Only the work is being paid for.

[adam]

Its perfectly legal. You bought the license and you are transferring it to them along with all copies of the media. And since you had to do work (well it would be work for them to figure it out) you can charge for the service.

[spiderman2k1]

I think Yahoo has a music store and it's five buck for all the downloads you want.

[thecoalman]

Its perfectly legal. You bought the license and you are transferring it to them along with all copies of the media. And since you had to do work (well it would be work for them to figure it out) you can charge for the service.

Hmmm... so what if you started a service selling custom discs? You charge them the .99 and a two dollar fee per disc?

[burnman99]

Itunes works fine for me except 1 thing. When I burn the songs to CD, it doesn't copy the ID3 tags, so when I rip it back to my hard drive as an Mp3 I have to re-edit the tag. Otherwise though, it works fine.

Later

Roger

[Darth Paris]

Its perfectly legal. You bought the license and you are transferring it to them along with all copies of the media. And since you had to do work (well it would be work for them to figure it out) you can charge for the service.

Hmmm... so what if you started a service selling custom discs? You charge them the .99 and a two dollar fee per disc?

How many people would pay 2 bucks for you to burn a CD?

[thecoalman]

How many people would pay 2 bucks for you to burn a CD?

Well it would be a niche market but that's where you make money, I'd imagine there is plenty of people that would be more than willing to pay for custom CD's. You still have a large population of computer users and non-computer users who don't know how to create CD's but do know how to push the play button on a CD player.

[stiltman]

How many people would pay 2 bucks for you to burn a CD?

Well it would be a niche market but that's where you make money, I'd imagine there is plenty of people that would be more than willing to pay for custom CD's. You still have a large population of computer users and non-computer users who don't know how to create CD's but do know how to push the play button on a CD player.

<stiltman nods head>

I already have 3 more orders. Most everyone has a computer and internet access. They just fear online scams and using their CC online.

I'm charging $.99 per song and $5.00 per CD with a printed labled of the song titles. Custom art work of their choice (1 person so far) is another $5.00.

This is my plan so far.
Installed iTunes
Download the specified songs
Burn to CD
Test CD
Give CD to customer
Costomer tests CD
Delete songs from my computer (BTW, first song list REALLY sucks IMO)

Repeat for new customer

BTW, I'm trying to keep this 100% legal because I'm doing this under my company name and keeping track of every transaction (taxes).

[shelbyGT]

Back when I was i high school and I was the first one with a burner (2x!!!), I would download music off of Napster and sell the cd to people at my school. Made $5 a pop. I easily made a couple hundred doing that until more and more people had CD burners.

This sounds exactly like that! Funny how things come in circles.

[MOVIEGEEK]

There are other music sites:buy.com,walmart.com,etc but they all add DRM.
Good luck with the business stilt.

[Darth Paris]

Back when I was i high school and I was the first one with a burner (2x!!!), I would download music off of Napster and sell the cd to people at my school. Made $5 a pop. I easily made a couple hundred doing that until more and more people had CD burners.

This sounds exactly like that! Funny how things come in circles.

It was a little different then. No one had a CD burner let alone knew how to burn a CD. I remember when I got my external 4x CD burner. Everyone wanted me to download songs for them. Anyways I guess I just don't know anyone that would pay for this.

[yoda313]

Hi,

I guess I just don't know anyone that would pay for this.

It sounds like stiltman found some of them. Those too scared to use credit cards online. And those probably overly scared by all the mpaa/riaa witchhunt going on.

Kevin

[thecoalman]

Anyways I guess I just don't know anyone that would pay for this.

Well I don't think your would make a fortune off such a scheme but if your like Stiltman and just doing it on the side or if you already had an established business with a storefront such as a used CD store this would definitely be worth a try. If you consider the fact that most people that are not coputer literate have only the choice of purchasing CD's that for the most part contain 3 or 4 songs they want, this would be an excellent deal for them.

This brings up another interesting idea, what's the legality of creating custom CD's for customers that would bring you their CD's. Say if they wanted a CD with all the hits on it.

<scratches chin> I'm still a little leary as to the legality of doing this, just seems that it should be illegal.

[shelbyGT]

There are people that you can pay to load up your ipod for you, so that just proves that there are peopel out there with enough money to throw it around.

[MOVIEGEEK]

There are people that you can pay to load up your ipod for you, so that just proves that there are peopel out there with enough money to throw it around.

Not to mention most people are still using dialup,it's tedious d/l songs using dialup.

[shelbyGT]

I put paying for dialup in the same category as throwing your money around
And my summer before college, I downloaded over 500 songs from Nappy all on a 33.6 modem. ..... man, that sounds pathetic!!! haha