{"id":986,"date":"2004-07-01T19:16:36","date_gmt":"2004-07-02T00:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/od2-and-the-penny-per-track-streamer\/"},"modified":"2004-07-01T19:16:36","modified_gmt":"2004-07-02T00:16:36","slug":"od2-and-the-penny-per-track-streamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/od2-and-the-penny-per-track-streamer\/","title":{"rendered":"od2 and the penny-per-track streamer"},"content":{"rendered":"

a couple weeks ago, i picked up on the news<\/a> from slashdot that od2 brought out their penny-per-track streamer service. that was june 15th. a week later, we got the news<\/a> that loudeye acquired od2. that’s music business news from meta-roj. now let’s play some games.<\/p>\n

what’s a penny-per-song work out to in the attention market<\/a>? if we go with the same assumptions i used back in september, the music-time works out to about 800 hours and 12,000 songs per year, at the low, low price of $218 (1 usd = 0.55 gbp). that’s the financial part… and that’s not terribly interesting, but we need a basis for comparison.<\/p>\n

the alternative comes from<\/a> the sky<\/a>. of course, these don’t work in europe, and od2’s streamer is only in europe, but despite the barriers<\/a> erected in the music business, i’m going to go ahead and make the comparison.<\/p>\n

xm offers a $50 pc-based receiver, plus $10 a month, or $170 (saving $48), or i can spend that extra money and get a portable self-contained unit. sirius has a similar self-contained receiver at about the same – $100 and $10\/month. now, to be fair, these satellite-based streamers actually push 100+ channels, 24 hours a day, including stuff that isn’t music, but for comparison, a 24-hour-a-day-for-a-year stream (131,400 tracks) from od2 would cost $2389.<\/p>\n

what we don’t know is how the attention\/participation thing works with this. how active do i have to be to work with od2? will i spend hours setting up playlists for myself? will someone else? with the satellite options, i get streaming audio in 100+ different pre-packaged formats, and they work like a radio.<\/p>\n

i won’t be rushing out to throw my money at a penny-per-track streamer anytime soon, unless it gets a lot more compelling. maybe a good thing that they closed the deal with loudeye already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

a couple weeks ago, i picked up on the news from slashdot that od2 brought out their penny-per-track streamer service. that was june 15th. a week later, we got the news that loudeye acquired od2. that’s music business news from meta-roj. now let’s play some games. what’s a penny-per-song work out to in the attention […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}