I can’t shop at iTunes any more. Beatport has totally spoiled me. I just can’t get the tunes I want from iTunes, at least not in the way i can get them from beatport. BP, right away hits me with what is moving, what is groovin and its more tasty vs what I get from itunes when i get to the “electronic” or “dance” selections – itunes is generic blah, or tries to sell me on a great cd from 9 years ago.
Maybe its the new thing. Beatport feels new every three weeks, heck sometimes every week it seems new. Fresh sounds are always within a few clicks away. With itunes I feel like those sounds could be there but I’d have to dig for hours to find them or go thru someone elses mix, where they’ve done the digging already.
Its funny cause BP is far more expensive, I’m paying $1.50 to $2.50 a track off BP vs itunes .99 cent offers. But every track i get I dig, and its fresh, and its good and it keeps me coming back.
Beatport Things to Do
The faults on BP are present though, aside from charts, top downloads and pushed features, theres no real rating system on tracks to let you know whats good.
BP is expensive, but I dont care. LOL
I wish BP had more information, like advisory amazon or uk tunes.co.uk does, (4 other people liked this track along with that other track).
BP has a nasty habbit of not informing you that you have 2 of the same track in yer basket, if you dont watch, you’ll buy the same track twice.
I wish BP had streaming radio dj sets I could listen to.
I wish my crate in BP would play back as one whole piece, so i could hear the whole selection without clicking on each track.
Add more catagories, think about how dj’s play, what they go for to make a set rock, floor fillers, vocal bites of goodness, stompin tracks that make chicks strip, have some fun BP, you have the market on dance music, redefine it in your image. Dig deeper.
Sometimes i get lost in all the various tags, remixer, dj, guy who thought this track was good, how good this track is, the remixer of the remixer, the label, the guy who owns the label, the place where the label people eat, and so on gets lost on me– what do i care about? – artist, type of song, length, bpm, remixer, label, rating, like tracks, catagory, etc
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Fresh tunes, fast, i get to new stuff faster, listening with the flash player is good too. The selection and catagory breakdown is decent as well, house, hard house, breaks, dnb and so on, its all there, much more refined detail than itunes will ever give me.
Big tasty mp3s with no restrictions.
