emusic
Oct.20.05 Filed in: around the
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so im sure that most of you have heard of the iTunes
music store and are familiar with the pay per song /
album structure of the store. i for one love this
model because i can just get what i want to get and i
get to keep the music indefinitely. there are other
online music stores that offer a subscription model
and that might be nice for someone who does not
really care about music all to much and does not mind
not actually owning any of the music. i for one have
a huge problem with that and prefer having the
ability to burn anything i want to burn and whatnot.
this said i am not really fond of any sort of drm (digital rights management) at all and would prefer to just buy the music and own it without any restrictions at all but i know thats not going to happen any time soon.
to get to the point here i wanted to write about an online music store that is not as widely known but i think it pretty amazing overall. its called emusic.
i have been using emusic for years now. it was one of the first online retailers for mp3s and they focus in on all of the indie labels out there so dont expect to find any big label pop music on there. you can find some really amazing stuff if you dig around though!
so i am going to contradict myself here and say that emusic is a subscription based service and this was no problem to me back when you could pay 15 dollars for unlimited downloads from the site. a larger company came in and reorganized a bit and now 15 dollars a month will only get you 65 songs but do the math, thats still a good deal! the downloads are in variable bit rate mp3 format and they sound really good for being mp3s.
so at any rate head over and check it out! if you decide to try it let me know and ill send you an invite which could lead to me getting a kickback. consider it a donation to twistedsun.net! you will get a month free which means you can grab a couple albums of music for free just to try it out so check it out!
heres a link.
this said i am not really fond of any sort of drm (digital rights management) at all and would prefer to just buy the music and own it without any restrictions at all but i know thats not going to happen any time soon.
to get to the point here i wanted to write about an online music store that is not as widely known but i think it pretty amazing overall. its called emusic.
i have been using emusic for years now. it was one of the first online retailers for mp3s and they focus in on all of the indie labels out there so dont expect to find any big label pop music on there. you can find some really amazing stuff if you dig around though!
so i am going to contradict myself here and say that emusic is a subscription based service and this was no problem to me back when you could pay 15 dollars for unlimited downloads from the site. a larger company came in and reorganized a bit and now 15 dollars a month will only get you 65 songs but do the math, thats still a good deal! the downloads are in variable bit rate mp3 format and they sound really good for being mp3s.
so at any rate head over and check it out! if you decide to try it let me know and ill send you an invite which could lead to me getting a kickback. consider it a donation to twistedsun.net! you will get a month free which means you can grab a couple albums of music for free just to try it out so check it out!
heres a link.
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