Posted by Woody on 01/01/06 22:08

G.T. <getnews1@dslextreme.com> wrote:

> Woody wrote:
> > G.T. <getnews1@dslextreme.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Ian Robinson wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 19:16:50 +0000, G.T. wrote
> >>
> >>>The majority of people probably don't even realise there are
> >>>restrictions.
> >>
> >>That's unfortunate because there are some labels that are on both eMusic
> >>and iTunes, and the eMusic versions are unencumbered and 1/4 the price.
> >
> >
> > It is a shame about the way that eMusics web site is. After you
> > mentioning them (I had never heard of them) I went to their site. There
> > is no information at all, just a 'sign up for free trial' button.
> > Put my details in there, hit next page and it wants a credit card!
> > Like I am going to give my credit card details to some random site on
> > the internet where I don't know what I am getting.
> >
> > Maybe iTunes is more expensive and restrictive, but you can see what you
> > are going to pay for before you give them any financial details. It is
> > easy to see why the iTunes store does so well when you see how badly the
> > others do.
> >
>
> You can easily browse eMusic before signing up for their trial.

Oh yes, you can if you try really hard.

> And eMusic now has over 1,000,000 unencumbered, 25 cent legal MP3s. And
> I think it's the 6th most popular paid music service in the U.S. It
> just doesn't have the major labels which is fine with me.
>
> Of course iTMS is playing to the lowest common denominator, people who
> don't bother looking beyond the ends of their noses for new stuff.

No it isn't - iTMS is playing to people who know what they want. If I
want, I can go and get a song from iTunes, pay my 79p and that is it
done. As previously mentioned, the 25c per song is if you download 40
tracks a month. I don't want 40 tracks a month, some months I want 100
tracks, some months I want 0 tracks.
On this system, I can't do either effectively or economically.

If it was a pay per track system, then it would be worth looking into -
a subscription service is not how I buy music.

--
Woody

www.alienrat.com

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