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- relinquish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14DRM = Yuck. Sorry, none of those services seem to appeal to me.
- Travinder, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8It's all about the eMusic (www.emusic.com) - Cheap, legal, Indie, no DRM.
- nilclop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I think for a lot of people it's not necessarily about the price of the song that really sells the service, it's more about the usability. And services that sell DRM'd music, in a way, encourage piracy, because people refuse to buy crippled music. Then there are online services like emusic.com and others that deal with independent artists or smaller labels that are able to sell the music for much cheaper than the ones in this article, plus the quality is great and there is no DRM.
Like stated above, I don't really see the mentality of renting crippled music. - WiseWeasel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6It's totally legal. There are only indie recordings there, with the explicit permission of the rights owners...
- dekkerd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Dugg for the fact there's not much to compare. Never a big fan of renting music...
- republicoftexas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I have never heard of magnatune.com! It looks really cool. Does anyone know how legal it is? I know on their web site it says they are, but so does kazaa. lol. Thanks for the web site.
- lane.montgomery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It's creative commons music. It is basically free, you chose how to compensate the artist for their hard work.
- ghelton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I cant believe they let you choose your own price
- Nyghtewynd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I can't tell you how much I love Rhapsody. I probably save the subscription price every month just from avoiding purchasing crap CDs by artists I usually support. Their front-end works great, too. Highly recommended.
- geekee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"Like stated above, I don't really see the mentality of renting crippled music."
It makes a lot more sense to rent crippled music than to buy it, and 2 million songs for $15 a month is not a bad deal. Some people, I've heard, actually like popular music, and aren't interested in what's on emusic.com. When you're renting you don't need to worry if the DRM format they're using will be compatible with whatever equipment is available in the future. When better quality formats come out, just redownload a better copy. Apple won't even replace a lost file they know you bought already. - dekkerd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+42 months max? Do you listen to music, or just use it as background noise? Anyhow, every legit buy site I use allows you to preview, so you can filter out the clunkers.
- cenz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yes what about allofmp3.com and alltunes.com? Yes they are legal in Russia under copyright laws (see roms.ru) and yes they are legal in the US under Import / Export laws (see http://www.customs.gov/xp/cgov/import/). No DRM choose your own music compression and bitrates (mp3, aac, ogg, wma, wav etc) and you only pay for the amount of data you download ($0.02 per MB).
- woncarloz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I have a Yahoo (Well my GF has one) and Rhapsody account and I prefer Rhapsody for the UI over the Yahoo Music Match crap.
I also like that I can listen to my Rhapaosy music on my Mac via the web site. I can't do that with my GF's Yahoo account.
One other cool thing I just noticed the other day after I cleared my cookies. I did not have to login to Rhapsody via the web site. It did an anonymous thing via my computer ID??? Not sure. I had a 25 song counter. I logged in because I have an account but this is pretty cool to listen any to full song without a CC or even a login.
This is full Tommy The Cat track from Primus. Try it.
http://play.rhapsody.com/primus/suckonthis?trackId=2189852
Plus my iRiver for the Yahoo To Go and Rhapsody to Go worked fine after I downgraded my firmware. I think all of these guys are getting bugs out of MS's "Play For Sure" stuff. At first it did NOT play for sure :) - nilclop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I totally agree that the music on the indie sites doesn't appeal to everyone, and to each their own. That's probably why the companies listed in this article seem to be doing so well. For the average computer user, that's into mainstream music these services definitely suffice.
All I'm saying is that for those that don't like to have their music tied down, and don't like the idea of putting money into music that will eventually just be gone one day, there are other alternatives. And those alternatives seem to be doing very well with their businesses. It's just sad that the larger music services can't take a page from their book and offer usable music for lower prices. - datagod, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9No thanks. I will just listen to my 200 CDs that I bought in the years leading up to Napster. Post Napster I search for independent artists who WANT me to listen to their music. I buy all my music from magnatune.com, only after I am totally happy with it.
- gengisPhat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I have had rhapsody for a couple months and love it. Since they added the web interface I can listen to it on my Mac at work (not as good as the Windows .exe, but still decent).
I don't really understand the obsession with having a billion cds or even Gigs of music. All it is a bunch of space being taken up anyway you look at it. For the bands you truly love, sure buy the CD, otherwise listen to it for a little bit and discard it.
I imagine not a lot of people will understand this viewpoint. - geekee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3people use allofmp3.com because it is fast and cheap, whereas p2p is free, but slow, questionable quality, and more likely to get you into trouble.
- flamingmb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3If I really like the artist I will buy the cd, but I usually just borrow cd's from friends or go through what they have on their computer and if I see what I like I get it. I too do not like renting music, I use itunes music store if all else fails, they have the best selection.
- woncarloz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I understand the viewpoint.
I like compare it to when I did not have a TiVo. Once you go Rhapsody (OR Yahoo for that matter) it is very hard to go back. Untill my friend let me use his Rhapsody account I had no idea. - Tufriast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The answer: None of them.
http://di.fm for the best in Electronic Music streaming at high quality.
Or just buy some music from allofmp3.com, and be happy. And yeah, the site is legal. Hands down. - intoflatlines, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i really enjoy yahoo music unlimited. you can preview the songs, bookmark them to listen to them later if you're connected to the internet, or download them onto your hard drave. its like $7 per month if you don't do an annual subscription, and the music is of decent quality: 192 kbps WMA. and for DRM, there are ways around that. i paid for the songs, why can't i put them on my ipod?
- Choppinski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I love the music subscription idea. Currently have Yahoo Music Engine. No longer have to spend time organizing and re-tagging my mp3s. There are programs that will re-encode your track without DRM at 4x speed. I did not notice any quality loss. Allows me to use my IPOD until I get a new player.
- MalignantKid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Exactly, I highly doubt the author of this article bothered to actually purchase and use these services. All we get is a nice pretty graph with out of date data. I personally use Napster and a nice little program called TuneBite. It works great, the wma's I get from napster are encoded at 192kbps, roughly equivalent to a 320kbps .mp3 (Or so I've been told) and I cue them up in TuneBite to rip to .mp3 at 4x and load em on the ipod in the morning before I go to school. With a pair of DT770's I can vouch for the sustained quality. (Mind you I'm no audiophile) Did I mention TuneBite is all of $20? Try it guys, I promise you won't look back.
- CornStarch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I like Yahoo because they have a great selection of the music I listen to.
- andrew522, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is a faulty review.
(I have Rhapsody, but i dont know about the others...)
FIRSTLY: Rhapsody gives wma audio encoded at 160kbps for subscription, and 192kbs Real Audio for purchases.
SECONDLY: you can use an iPod with Rhapsody, but not the "subscription" package - you have to pay 89cents per song.
THIRDLY: the music purchase is 89cents. they changed it from version 2.0 to 3.0, with the ability to have subscription downloads on your computer. cd burns with ver 2.0 were 79cents a song and were OK quality. the new files are great quality.
I believe that Napster works the same way, with the same prices.
EDIT: oh, yeah. use "tunebite" to take care of DRM. works great. google it (or torrentspy it...) - donrwest, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I like having access to 1MM songs, and use the Yahoo service. Who wants to own music that you are only going to listen to for 2 months, MAX, and never listen to again. I'll take the rental service (equivalent to buying 7 songs on iTunes in a month). These services used to be much better, like in the old days of MusicMatch, when any subscriber could share their songs and playlists, with their friends regardless of whether they were MM subscribers or not. Yahoo needs to bring that back, their service right now blows, and is ruining the concept of rental.
- nonchallant0819, on 03/27/2008, -0/+0This is a great story... found this one through http://www.google.com
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http://www.TopNotchCarpentry.com - nonchallant0819, on 03/27/2008, -0/+0This is a great story... found this one through http://www.google.com
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http://www.TopNotchCarpentry.com - Falconwing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You're all missing the best service: http://www.thepiratebay.org. The not-for-free alternatives will die. There's no market other than one temporarily forced by scaremongering and racketeering tactics; you can't charge for downloading an mp3 in the future, just as you won't be able to charge for a phone call.
- thundercleese, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Worst comparison review ever. Incomplete data. Author did not appear to have tried each site.
- nonchallant0819, on 03/27/2008, -0/+0This is a great story... found this one through http://www.google.com
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http://www.TopNotchCarpentry.com - sencha5, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Problem is, allofmp3.com is sketchy-sketchy. I don't know many people who are okay with the rampant CC fraud.
- ldhertert, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3I've never understood the rationale behind people using allofmp3.com. I mean, none of that money actually goes to the artists. (i'm going to call pirating music here "stealing" for lack of a better word). So you're either stealing music or buying stolen stuff...why not just download. Either be legit about it or not. What's the benefit of using allofmp3 over p2p?
- DodgeV83, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Yahoo Unlimited is amazing! $60 a year (5 a month) for unlimited music "to go" on my Samsung Portable Media Center. Rhapsody charges $15 a month for their "to go" service.
- dekkerd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2The flame war for allofmp3 is over here.
http://digg.com/music/Comparison_of_Legal_Music_Downloads - twollamalove, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1That's probably because Kazaa is legal.
- Scopitone, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2All I can think of whilst skimming through that article is, "Allofmp3.com still works, so why are you even shopping for other options?!"
- geekee, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2You don't own the music anyway, so who cares about the DRM, as long as it works with all of your equipment. Granted most people haven't wired their stereos to their computers or mp3 players, but that is changing.
- RJNavarrete, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0BITTORRENT FOR LIFE XD
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