[Nightfly]

Quote:
Deutsche Grammophon (DG), a division of Universal Music Group, the world's leading music company, will become the first major classical record label to make its huge catalogue available online for download with the launch of its new DG Web Shop, enabling consumers in 42 countries to download music at the highest technical and artistic standards.

For more Info:

Deutsche Grammophon Debuts Download Site For Classical Music - Yahoo!7 News

[Nightfly]

Originally Posted by Nightfly

Quote:
Deutsche Grammophon (DG), a division of Universal Music Group, the world's leading music company, will become the first major classical record label to make its huge catalogue available online for download with the launch of its new DG Web Shop, enabling consumers in 42 countries to download music at the highest technical and artistic standards.

For more Info:

Deutsche Grammophon Debuts Download Site For Classical Music - Yahoo!7 News

This site is Beautiful and DRM Free.

Because it is a big Corp site. DG is owned by EMI/Universal,
I proceeded with caution.
As it turned out, for good reason.The press and the site are touting
1.29 a download for 326kps.Ok in the Classical world where movements
are 14 -20 mins long.This could turn out to be a good deal........Wrong.

for Instance Beethoven's 3rd Symphony has 4 movements and at $1.29
should be $5.16

This is how They broke it down:

Allegro-----14:44----$2.99
Adagio-----17:05----$3.69
Scherzo----05:44----$1.29
Finale------12:20----$2.69

Total---------------$10.66 for 4 tracks

Obviously you are paying by the bandwidth and not by the download
as stated..Their policy is not stated anywhere "clearly" on the site
that I could personally find..

I most definitely will not be shopping here.

[squash54]

Originally Posted by Nightfly

This site Beautiful and DRM Free.

Because it is a big Corp site. DG is owned by EMI/Universal,
I proceeded with caution.
As it turned out, for good reason.The press and the site are touting
1.29 a download for 326kps.Ok in the Classical world where movements
are 14 -20 mins long.This could turn out to be a good deal........Wrong.

for Instance Beethoven's 3rd Symphony has 4 movements and at $1.29
should be $5.16

This is how They broke it down:

Allegro-----14:44----$2.99
Adagio-----17:05----$3.69
Scherzo----05:44----$1.29
Finale------12:20----$2.69

Total---------------$10.66 for 4 tracks

Obviously you are paying by the bandwidth and not by the download
as stated..There policy is not stated any where "clearly" on the site
that I could personally find..

I most definitely will not be shopping here.

As a direct comparison, the first movement on Sparks as a 320 kbps mp3 would be $1.07. Even as FLAC lossless (not an option at DG) it would cost less at $2.97.

[Nightfly]

Originally Posted by squash54

As a direct comparison, the first movement on Sparks as a 320 kbps mp3 would be $1.07. Even as FLAC lossless (not an option at DG) it would cost less at $2.97.

You are so right Squash...even at Amazon it would cost 7.99
but that would include The 1st Symphony with 4 movements
at a reasonable 256kps...But you could only get the 3rd if you
bought the whole album...so they are a little crafty there as well
Charging you a $1.00 a download instead of the stated .89cents.

There is no way around it Mp3sparks offers the best consistant
quality and price...Because you are doing the choosing.

[Maxthedrive]

Originally Posted by Nightfly

There is no way around it Mp3sparks offers the best consistant
quality and price...Because you are doing the choosing.

You are correct. It's really hard to find a site with some varied classical guitar works. Mp3sparks appears to have the most that I have seen so far.