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  • From: Chris Rossi <nospam AT spacelabstudio.com>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Rhapsody for Macs
  • Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 11:03:17 -0500

Forgot to mention, that you get 50 songs free without even having to give them a credit card or anything. So you can try it out/explore first.

chris


Chris Rossi wrote:
Guys, emusic.com. No DRM. MP3s play anywhere. Access to the entire Kill Rock Stars, Merge, Tzadik, K records, Dischord, Matador, etc. catalogs, and much much more. A whole universe of stuff, really, excluding for the most part major labels.

I think, but I'm not sure, I might get some kind of free song kickback if you sign up and tell 'em I sent you. Replace 'nospam' with 'chris' to get my email address.

http://www.emusic.com/?tafisnid=0F0A2B6571A92085686D67BBC875AF52&fref=149089

I pay $15/month and get 60 songs. Which is actually a little more than I'm capable of processing, especially since I still buy CDs, so I've considered cutting back to the $10/month 40 song plan. It adds up to a lot of albums after a while. I've got it all hooked up to the stereo at home, the headphones at work, the iRiver on the road.

rossi


Nathaniel Florin wrote:

--- stablenet AT nc.rr.com wrote:


As many closed technologies have proven in the past,
this is a poor business model. Betamax was superior
to VHS, but the latter won the war because of more

open

distribution and licensing.
Apple doesn't care if you use a Rio or an iPod -
they will sell you an MP3 regardless.


Unfortunately this isn't exactly true. The iTunes
Music Store sells you MPEG-4 AAC (Advanced Audio
Coding) files which have a Digital Rights Management
code built in that, among other things, only allows
you to play them on an iPod (though you can burn them
to a generic audio CD as well). There are ways around
this to get them on your Rio, but they tend to be
complicated and tedious and are definitely not
approved of by Apple. Apple, on the whole, detests an
open system (though it loves an open source on which
it can build a closed system). The company has always
relied on high sales margins rather than high volume
and so the more proprietary something is the better.
This is part of what has kept me in the business of
buying vinyl and CDs, and IMHO is the major weakness
of the iTunes store.

I say all this as a long-time Mac user, btw.

Nate

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