iTunes

I learned to type on a Macintosh; it was in the sixth grade and the screens were still tinted green.  Since then Apple has exploded their image into the trendy chic that anyone who wants to be anybody has to have a piece of.  This makes me nervous; any product or movement  this many people have fallen in love without couldn’t possibly happen without a fair-to-lethal amount of subliminal brainwashing.

Until recently I have been a proud boycotter of the iUniverse and have successfully avoided handing over any of my money to Mr. Jobs. In my life I have hopped from one PC application to the next, never once finding any reason to settle with an Apple.  For this article I decided to give iTunes a shot – but only because it was free.  However, upon entering the iTunes store, I couldn’t find anything about how an independent musician could upload their own music for sale.  I Googled this query and discovered that iTunes is having enough problems with big music labels that trying to even negotiate with individuals would me more complicated than necessary. 

Other online criticisms claim that iTunes screws with the compression of files and causes the music to play at different qualities depending on the medium it is transferred to.  Plus, there are limitations on which of these mediums the purchased music can be put on.  While this may be good for the musicians by allowing them to control the distribution of their tunes, it could ultimately affect that artist’s reputation.

Getting onto iTunes seems to first require working through an agent that already works through with iTunes.   This seems entirely too complicated, but I found that cdbaby.com is an outlet that will do just that.  More on cdbaby can be found later in this article.