I feel like that would eliminate most of the people I know, personally, from considering it as an iTunes replacement.
If you
do increase it, I think you'd need to target much more of a "Pro" audience with it. But to target a Pro audience with a multimedia application of this sort, I think you'd also need to add some "pro" features:
- true multi-user, networked database (multiple read/write copies on a network all with access to a centralized database)
- auto-populating tags, including the previously discussed movie/TV auto-tagging, but also facial recognition for images, sidecar file tagging, and auto-filling from filename/directory path on import.
- a built-in, easy to use, well-supported Program Guide for the TV component.
- and most importantly, cross-platform support.
The professional "multimedia" world has
long been, and is even more so right now, an extremely Mac-friendly world (to say the least). Walk into any music studio, graphic design house, or movie production house and see what they're using. Sure, you can find examples here and there that are Windows-centric, but Apple certainly has a large presence there, and much greater than the "general public" audience of iTunes-competitor-class software.
I feel like MC is already borderline in that "non-pro, consumer" class. The best target for it would really be $20-$30. Much more than that and you really start to push potential customers away. But the same doesn't hold true at all for a pro application. The exact, current features of MC with many (or all) of the above additions would be a
bargain to many pro-users and pro-sumers at even a $79-$149 price point.
That doesn't mean you can't do it. That doesn't even mean I'd, frankly, discourage it (I'd happily pay quite a bit more for that handful of things). Just do it with eyes wide open. With a higher price comes additional responsibilities to
earn it going forward.