Nobody knows why anyone thought "ringle" was a good name for a consumer entertainment product that's supposed to appeal on a basic emotional level to the youth market, but it's already been approved by the RIAA and there's an industry-wide logo "to help brand it." Then again, other questionable names like "iPod" and "Wii" have turned out okay, so go figure. We also wonder whether, this being Sony, they'll do something horrible to the product to dissuade piracy, like lacing the sleeves with razor wire or smashing the discs to pieces before shipping them off to stores.
Oh, and please marvel at our awesome Photoshopping skillz.
"Music industry betting on 'ringle' format" [Reuters]
(Original photo from Leonid Mamchenkov)
@MyCokesBiggerThanYours: he said 2 songs not 2 cds
]]>That's easy. 12 bucks (the MSRP for a CD single).
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I figure most people don't know how to make their own, or they simply would rather pay for the convenience of buying them. Or if you're a Verizon customer, you're forced to buy only from Verizon because your phone has been crippled.
Union-types and Democrats want every one in that distribution chain to earn enough money to be a single parent of several children, with health care, dental, vision, child care, and a 3 bedroom house. How do you get a $2 CD from that equation?
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In about 20 years there will be folks on eBay selling these "ringles" ("rongles" if you ask me) for upwards of $500 because so few escaped being fed to a shredder immediately after release.
Ooh, but can I get a Barry Manilow Ringle of Copa Cabana? That'd be the bomb.
This is no deal even for people who actually pay for music. As you can see, it's such a tough choice: get the entire CD for $10 on Amazon.com, or get just two tracks for low, low price of $7.
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@bohemian: Napster will actually give you an mp3 player with one year of Napster to go, or whatever they call it. That's just the cost of one CD monthly. If you go to [www.brightspot.tv], they'll actually pay for your Napster subscription from money you get watching 30 second commercials.
]]>but that's because they charge through the nose for vinyl because it's an unpopular format (in comparison with cd's).
]]>But the Wii is cool so the name is forgiven or overlooked. The iPod name was overlooked/forgiven because the iTunes store has indivdual songs for $0.99. Plus, the name doesn't sound like a junk food.
Why don't they just call it an "Enhanced" single or a "Special Edition" single. That might still be dumb but it won't sound like it's been deep fried.
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]]>Let's see here...going out of business b/c nobody buys CDs. So put even less music on an even more expensive-per-song CD. That will fix everything.
Maybe if these guys spent a little less money on CRACK they'd be having a better time of it.
]]>There's also a new pet product called Ringbones where you get a DRM crippled song barked by dogs that comes on a bone which you can feed to your pet.
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Closer to 1.5 songs for $6, the B track being an OLD B track and all.
Yeah, and I fully expect Mission: Impossible pyrotechnics on your media device after inserting due to over-aggressive DRM. But the labels will charge an additional $3 "entertainment" fee for the fireworks that melt your player into plastic goo.
Kind of funny how it gets close to the $5.99 price point that NBC got booted from iTMS for trying to force down our throats. Coincidence? Or the same vat of Kool-Aide?
It is really starting to seem like every day some record company executive wakes up and thinks, "How can I do something that makes the stupidest thing that's been done pale in comparison?" Nothing these people do, not matter how completely out of touch (like trying to sue people into buying their products) will surprise me one bit anymore. What I am wondering is when they will finally run out of money and disappear.
]]>Are they gonna be supporting ringtone formats for ALL of the different phones out there?
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]]>Is there any way I can sell this short right now?
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