No. They should focus on making their game selection more competitive before branching off into a different market. Besides, it's not particularly difficult to get DRM-free music these days, anyway.

If GOG are going to hire anyone for anything then it should be to fix existing problems. Not create new ones.

Manpower issues aside, I think that it would mean all future releases having premium soundtracks. No more freebies. Yeah, sure we might get a few more soundtracks that we wouldn't otherwise. But in every sense the cost will be too high.

Hiring people costs money and adding more persons on your staff can change the status of your company.

I would rather they continue developing games, working with good independent developers to provide newer games and spend the bit of time that it takes to get the "classics" working on our modern-day machines.

Seriously, the move they made to offer independent videos was like a "huh?" moment for me. It was a little more irritating to find out that some of the movies they made available were on Netflix and Hulu.

If you want an "all of the above" solution, there is always amazon.com.

I'd prefer GOG do what they do best and provide us with "Good Old Games" (or "Good Original Games").

I just wanted to say that the system we have now is fine, because we have the wishlist and everything. I know a lot of us were complaining about the game search feature before (where it couldn't find certain games), which they fixed. So it's not like they aren't working hard enough. You can't expect them to work to please everyone.

Fortunately, whoever created us human beings endowed us all with something to please. It's just that it takes effort to do just that.

So many noes..
I'll say YES, but only after fixing the current known problems.

Also, starting with indies is not great, as we saw for movies.
Some classics should always be the first ones.

In the future ? Yeah ! Why not ?

Right now ? Certainly not...

Already too much going on...

Nope.

For those that would say that the response in this thread is an indication GOG should never sell music, I'd argue it's actually more promising than you think. The majority of the negative feedback seems to be predicated on the fear that it would be at the expense of resources dedicated to games/forums/Galaxy client, not that it's a terrible idea in and of itself. If GOG could address peoples' concerns in advance, I contend most would be be perfectly fine with it, or at least indifferent.

I don't think it would work as a general music shop, there is way too much competition already and licensing/legal issues abound which likely require employees with deep knowledge of the industry and connections with publishers.

What might be more plausible is if they perhaps focused on high-quality game soundtracks (FLAC, extras, etc.). But even this I'm sure would cause a fair amount of problems if it were just abruptly introduced without any transition groundwork since soundtracks had previously been released either as DLC or included goodies.

It's not a trivial matter to implement, but I could see it kind of as an emerging market if they put a lot of time, resources, and people into developing a new niche industry out of high-quality digital download game soundtracks. Unfortunately, I agree with most of the others in the thread that now is not the time for this, as GOG needs to really focus on improving and expanding their core business.

Also, let it be known I'm actually a big supporter of their attempts at DRM-free movie distribution, but I think it would have worked better as a separate website/business, and also likely requires key people devoted completely to that part of the business with ties to the film industry to make it work.

Should GOG sell music? If you mean GAME music, then yes*, with a massive asterisk.
*Not until they figure out a few other things about the current site, and get them right first.

Should GOG sell general music? NO! NO! NO! - Níl, Niet, Non, Nee, Nein, La, Deyil, Ne, Bù, Nahi, Ohee, Lo, Nem, Nai, Não, Naha, Mai, Hayır, Nei, Nid oes, NO!

If it was just game soundtracks, that would be cool. If GOG added the occasional general music album, that would be cool as well and easily ignored by those uninterested. Would people really be up in arms if GOG added the non-game related albums of Perturbator a.k.a. James Kent (Hotline Miami 1+2) or The Gone Jackals a.k.a. The Bonedrivers (Full Throttle)?

I think the heads at GOG mentioned that the abundance of DRM-free music meant that they weren't going to focus on that any time soon. This was brought up around the time they started the movie section. I don't mind if GOG becomes a place to acquire all things DRM-free, but I don't see music being part of their strategy for many years. GOG is still growing and bringing in newer and bigger partners so that's great, but first I'd really like to see their movie section take off and for them to get more day one AAA releases.

Even if GOG started selling music, i doubt i would buy anything. Since i grew up with physical music media (LPs, CDs & i won't forget the MCs that we were using to record our band's rehearsals or the famous [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Taping_Is_Killing_Music#/media/File:Homesewing.svg]mix tapes[/url]) in my house, and later i made my own music collection, i always found it difficult for me to pay money for some mp3s (or FLAC if it matters).