Not sure where to post this, but anyway....
My favourite download site was
www.classicsonline.com run by Naxos. It was my favourite because it was the most reasonably priced download service for someone in Australia. For example a Naxos CD cost $6.99 (US) to download, most other CDs were $9.99 (US). Compare this to Prestoclassical where the avergae album is $12.95 (US) and iTunes ($16.00 (US)).
Well it has closed down and been replaced with a new site HDclassics or some such offering streaming and downloading services. They assure the user you can still download MP3s, so I tried to only to discover the price had gone up to $10.99 for a Naxos Disk, $12.95 for other albums. I wrote to them and asked what had ahppeend to the MP3s and they wrote back saying we are offering you a better service, all formats the same price, streaming service, keep it in your cloud &c.
I replied that if they had halved their prices they would be offering me a better service, but to increase them by 50% can hardly be described as offering better service. >:(
Anyway, just wanted to let people know what had happened in case they used the old classicsonline site. Perhaps if all classicsonline users write in an threatne to boyott the new site we can make Naxos reverse the price increase.
