Re:It's a shame...
I've heard a rumor going around that WDWF may come around again in the near future. I have no clue how valid it is, but we can at least hope.
I'm afraid that WDWF closed not totally due to RedDotNet, but mainly because people downloaded all of the songs online. It's really a shame. Both WDWF and DLF lost popularity, and therefore, we lost them.
Hopefully the new CDs won't allow computer transfer...if they ever come out... :'(
For us, the system lost popularity because over the few years the DLF and WDWF systems were open we had bought about 2 dozen CDs,
(You can imagine how much money that's worth at $2 a track!!!) and it reached the point where the remaining tracks were
viewed as not being worth $2 each. No new tracks were being added, and a lot of them we already had
from the other commercial releases (Like the Candlelight Processional, HM and PoTC CDs). So what else was there to buy?
I've also watched people at the kiosks. On the surface, they look popular, but the great majority of people browse the selections, probably just becuase of the novelty of the machine, and very few actually buy a CD.
It is probably a sad fact of life for us fans that the market for this kind of audio is limited, and, for Disney, cannot justify the cost of operating the kiosks.
Just imagine how many CDs a kiosk would have to sell a day to recoup its operating costs, not to mention licensing for the work.
Just my 2 cents.