Selling CD's vs Digital Downloads
Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 6:50 pmHi All -
I have an idea for a product, but I don't know if people would actually want to use it.
Personally, I'm not a big fan of CD's. They just make me have to rip it to get it into my music collection, my computer, and my phone.
My idea is to sell a post card with a unique code that can let people add the CD to their music collection. Someone would buy the card a show, and scan a barcode with a phone app, and they would be able to listen to the music on their phone right away. When they get home, they could easily download the music into their library.
I think it would be cheaper for the artist, because they wouldn't need to worry about burning CD's. Each card could probably only cost 10 or so cents, and the musician could pay the bulk of the charge if someone redeems it (maybe a dollar per redemption?).
I think this could be better for the customer too because they would be able to listen to the music right away from their phone, and it could be a lot easier + less time consuming to sync to their music library (my MacBook Air doesn't have an internal CD drive, so getting out the usb cd drive sucks).
A slight variation of this idea, is to do the same thing with a flash drive. So the customer could have a physical copy of the music.
Is this a good idea? A terrible idea? Would you try something like this to sell music? Can you think of any variations of this that would make this a better idea that you could see yourself using?
I'm trying to figure out if it makes sense to build a product like this and try to get musicians onboard, or if that would be a waste of my time because nobody would be interested.
Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks.
-ken
I have an idea for a product, but I don't know if people would actually want to use it.
Personally, I'm not a big fan of CD's. They just make me have to rip it to get it into my music collection, my computer, and my phone.
My idea is to sell a post card with a unique code that can let people add the CD to their music collection. Someone would buy the card a show, and scan a barcode with a phone app, and they would be able to listen to the music on their phone right away. When they get home, they could easily download the music into their library.
I think it would be cheaper for the artist, because they wouldn't need to worry about burning CD's. Each card could probably only cost 10 or so cents, and the musician could pay the bulk of the charge if someone redeems it (maybe a dollar per redemption?).
I think this could be better for the customer too because they would be able to listen to the music right away from their phone, and it could be a lot easier + less time consuming to sync to their music library (my MacBook Air doesn't have an internal CD drive, so getting out the usb cd drive sucks).
A slight variation of this idea, is to do the same thing with a flash drive. So the customer could have a physical copy of the music.
Is this a good idea? A terrible idea? Would you try something like this to sell music? Can you think of any variations of this that would make this a better idea that you could see yourself using?
I'm trying to figure out if it makes sense to build a product like this and try to get musicians onboard, or if that would be a waste of my time because nobody would be interested.
Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks.
-ken