My exploration of music websites has led me to Amie Street. Really cool site. As a band’s song gets downloaded more, the price goes from $FREE.99 to $0.98. The Reuben Shmuel in me loves the free downloading.
Summary
Amie Street gives a new pricing scheme to online music sales. Independent artists post their music on the website for downloading. At the beginning, songs are downloaded for free, and as the individual songs become more popular, the price of the song goes up to a maximum of $0.98.
Pros:
- Like a stock market setup where most popular songs are higher in cost
- Each page of the site has a header with recommend bands
- Can download music for free
- Gives credit to fans who recommend music
- Ex. A person gets $0.98 credit if he recommends a song when it’s free and it ends up costing $0.98
- Ex. A person gets $0.98 credit if he recommends a song when it’s free and it ends up costing $0.98
- Player plays more than 30 seconds of a song
- Users can keep a library of their music purchased from Amie Street
- Have an easy to use social network
- Simple with just friends
- User has homepage where their library, recommendations, and favorite artists can be seen
- When you specify favorite genres, Amie Street recommends music to your profile
- Top charts
- Can become a fan of an artist and get updates when he uploads new music
Cons:
- Too much social network
- Other people can see my friends
- Have to add money to account in order to be able to recommend music
