Hey all

I've just been having a look through and doing some mp3 shopping and am baffled by the differences in pricing between mp3 shops, winds me up immensly, check the below out.

I added a total of 15 tracks into a basket on Audiojelly, Beatport, DJDownload, and Trackitdown and look at the total prices:-

Audiojelly - £21.75
Beatport - £18.96 + 15% tax = £21.80
DJDownload - £17.55
Trackitdown - £22.35

Also bear in mind that all of the tracks added into the baskets on each site are ALL 320kbps in quality, and are the same releases on same labels etc.

Is it just me being anal or are the differences unacceptable? In this day and age (recession etc) every penny & pound matters at the moment, so a difference of £4.80 between 2 shops for the same mp3's is pretty ridiculous if you ask me! I don't know how some shops can justify the big differences in pricing for the same tracks in the same quality on all (320kbps).

Here's a spreadsheet of the prices per track:-



Just goes to show all of you DJ's and digital download purchasers out there that you MUST shop around first before just using your 'favourite' mp3 store and being ripped off.

Hope this was interesting reading for you!

Regards
Sim

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Last edited by Simcut on Apr-01-2009 at 13:51

That was an interesting analysis, but I don't know why you're all bent out of shape about it. Different stores always have different prices even for the exact same product. It's the same thing here.

I tend not to like Beatport because there's so much crap on there, and the samples tend to be shorter. So I'm willing to pay a small premium to shop somewhere else.

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-Jon
www.DJjoncaserta.com - - mixes and whatnot (melodic progressive house and trance)

i think each store has its pros and cons.

djdownload.com: great for discovering new tracks. the sample player allows you to listen to a new tune and pick up at "points" that you would like. i for example, love the part of a trance track in which the bassline first kicks in (normally 32 bars in - or 1 minute in)...so i can click there and see if it's the kind of bassline i like and then download it.

audiojelly.com: great for trance tracks. very good and up to date with trance releases.

beatport.com: great for house, tech house, and techno - very up to date with those releases. not very good with trance, psy, nu disco, etc.

beatport and audiojelly charge more because they pay their record labels on a royalty basis - so they must pay the record labels irrespective of sales. the higher prices facilitate this transaction.

i personally like beatport and audiojelly more because they're more up to date on releases. and because beatport has a podcast...i've never used it trackitdown though!

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DJ IMPHATIK

Progressive, Melodic, Bassline-driven Tech Trance

All-time Top 5:
1. Astralis - Solar Flare (Original Mix)
2. Markus Schulz feat. Justine Suissa - Perception (Vocal Mix)
3. Dakota - Koolhaus (Intro Mix)
4. Skytech - Cardboard Box (Ummet Ozcan Remix)
5. David Barnes - Noodler (Original Mix)

i use audiojelly by far my favourite also trackitdown is good.
I cant see any big deal in the price differences its the same with any product go in a store see a tv you like shop around you might find it for £50 less

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if it bugs you so much buy where it's cheapest then, but plenty of people will just buy everything where it's convenient.

Jeez why are people being so critical towards me? I was just showing the differences between shops, each shop has its pro's and con's but the prices are a bit of a pisstake

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how do you figure it's a pisstake? do you use this argument when you pay different amounts for the same beer in every different pub?

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Originally posted by tubby how do you figure it's a pisstake? do you use this argument when you pay different amounts for the same beer in every different pub?

You dont really see the same drinks with a £4.80 difference between them though

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but you are not comparing the price of 1, you are comparing the price of 15 units. the diffence is what? 15%?
and after 15 beers I doubt i'd be able to count my money to within 15% anyway

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Originally posted by tubby but you are not comparing the price of 1, you are comparing the price of 15 units. the diffence is what? 15%? and after 15 beers I doubt i'd be able to count my money to within 15% anyway

In fairness, you're waffling now.

I know where the OP is coming from. 15% is a massive difference. Ask some of the lads on here how much they've spent on tracks and add 15% onto it. It could mean the difference of an additional couple of hundred tracks.

2 things. Yes it is ridiculous that there's such a difference but, going to each site and finding the 15 tracks or so that you're looking for and doing a price comparison takes quite a bit of time. If you have that time spare, great. If you don't, the 15% difference might not be worth it for some.

What Simcut is saying is for those who care shop around as he's realised that there is quite a difference in the price, something some of us might not have known. That's all

^ thanks you got the idea dude! My initial point of the thread was to flag up that people need to shop around as the prices vary, and I personally dont like how they vary so much....big deal if you disagree with that.

I can sleep easy now, lol. I'm off to bed.

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Originally posted by Simcut ^ thanks you got the idea dude! My initial point of the thread was to flag up that people need to shop around as the prices vary, and I personally dont like how they vary so much....big deal if you disagree with that. I can sleep easy now, lol. I'm off to bed.

Mate it's only Trance Addict

lol.. enjoy your pint with the £4.80 you saved!