Featuring Telstra BigPond Music
Telstra’s BigPond Music offers is the largest Australian owned online music store with over 1.2million tracks for download in high-quality (256-320kbps) MP3 format, which is compatible with nearly all digital music players and devices.
The BigPond Music site was first launched in 2004, originally offering downloads in the DRM restricted WMA format. In August 2008, BigPond Music began offering music downloads in MP3 format and was the first download site in Australia to secure deals with all four major record labels to sell downloads in the MP3 format. BigPond Music also offers a free downloader application that allows customers to download MP3 tracks and albums directly into the library of their favourite media player, such as iTunes or Windows Media Player.
BigPond Music launched a new site in October 2009. In addition to improved performance, the new site provides a variety of new content and features including:
- Daily music news stories.
- Video streaming of over 200 full length Live Gigs from local & international acts.
- Create, publish and share Mixtapes.
- Video streaming of local celebrities choosing their own Mixtape playlists.
- Free Track downloads
- Content Gifting functionality
Standard download music pricing as of January 2010:
- Tracks:
- Weekly Top 10 Selling Tracks $0.99 each
- All Other Tracks $1.65
Albums:
- Standard 1 Volume Albums $16.50 each
Customers that also have a BigPond ISP account are entitled to a 10% discount on all music purchases ($1.48 per track and $14.85 per standard album) and add the cost of any purchases directly to their monthly BigPond Internet bill.
Prepaid Vouchers were introduced in December 2005 and are available through a range of retailers including Woolworths, Big W, Tandy, Dick Smith and Telstra shops in $10, $20, $50 and $100 denominations. Telstra has run a number of successful voucher discounting schemes over the last 3 Christmas sales periods to generate high volumes of voucher sales.
BigPond Music is also offered through the BigPond WAP Portal to Telstra 3G & Next G™ customers.
BigPond Music on Mobile offers both track and music video downloads. All mobile tracks are offered as ‘Dual Downloads’ meaning that once a customer has downloaded the track to their mobile handset they can download a second bonus copy of the track onto a PC through the online BigPond music store (in MP3 format).
Standard download pricing as of January 2010:
- Tracks $2.99 each
- Music Videos $3.50 each
The BigPond Music mobile service is free to browse for Telstra 3G & Next G customers with compatible handsets and preview clips of all tracks and videos are also available to stream free prior to making a purchase.
Additional features of the BigPond Music mobile service include:
- Daily music news stories.
- Regular competitions & offers
- Free SMS alerts for new releases (by genre).
- Track of the Week & Video of the Week subscription services (customers sign up to be pushed a brand new release track and/or video each week).
For more info see:
- Australia – Digital Media – Music, MP3 & Podcasting
- Australia – Digital Media – Video Entertainment – Telcos & ISPs
- Australia – Mobile Media – Products and Services
Australia – Mobile Media – Providers
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