Yahoo! Music Unlimited
Did I miss something or am I just the first to post about this?
Over 1 million songs.
$5/mth (or $7)
$.79 to burn a song
Works with some portable music players (not the iPod, of course)
It has the Beatles.
Sounds pretty damned awesome.
Over 1 million songs.
$5/mth (or $7)
$.79 to burn a song
Works with some portable music players (not the iPod, of course)
It has the Beatles.
Sounds pretty damned awesome.
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Originally posted by groverat
Did I miss something or am I just the first to post about this?
Over 1 million songs.
$5/mth (or $7)
$.79 to burn a song
Works with some portable music players (not the iPod, of course)
It has the Beatles.
Sounds pretty damned awesome.
did you see what happened to Napster and Real stocks?
but good find Grove, i only heard murmurings of the yahoo launch last night, thanks for the details...
why it not work with iPod?
What happens when the digital music download market starts declining? It certainly will not be able to support all the services that are out there already. When the subscription services go out of business, all the money their users spent will have been for NOTHING. The consumer would be forced to give up access to the music that they'd been using for so long and spent so much money on.
At least with pay-per-song or pay-per-album services, if they go out of business you get to keep the music you paid for. If iTMS shuts down tomorrow, all the music I bought from them will continue to work indefinitely.
Take your argument and replace "business failure" with "hard drive failure".
Originally posted by groverat
Yahoo! charges $0.79 to burn it. Pretty much the same deal.
That's great, but a lot of others don't have that ability, do they? And if they *do* plan on going out of business some day, will they give a "warning" to their customers so the customers can burn what they want before losing all the music they had?
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-FDuiC....GGJ7TmAz?p=89
Probably the headline things is that it's only an introductory price, and it's just another storefront for MSFT's Janus DRM'd WMA so no great shakes there.
As a iTunes competitor (that is, the music player not the music store) it has a few good features but mostly in the computer geek sector e.g. Ogg, Flac support, Skins(!), plugins.
The key flaw in these rental systems is that as soon as they look like becoming accepted, then iTunes will switch to offer it too rendering any hypothetical advantage they offer moot.
ALso, I really wish people would stop talking crap about Apple lock-in and it's proprietary (sic) AAC. Jesus, that would be annoying from someone who wasn't hawking DRM'd WMA as the next big thing.
Finally can someone explain, or point me to an explanation of the business model behind these all-you-can-eat stores? How much of this monthly payment goes to the artists I like?
One final comment, note that many of the interesting sounding community collaboration things, e.g. sharing songs only work if both you and the other person are subscribers.
I'm not saying iTunes or iTMS is dead or even truly threatened, but it would be absolutely moronic to not give this thing serious consideration.
And iTunes only works with one music player. YME works with the iPod as much as Apple will let it.
I think Yahoo! has done a wonderful job here and Apple needs to think quickly and keep making the experience better for the user.
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groverat_ut@yahoo.com in the house.
No, its not the creative zen.
Originally posted by stustanley
Yeah, the one music play the iTunes music store is only the player with over a 50% market share.
No, its not the creative zen.
Oh really wow I did not know the iPod was popular thanks guy!
I need to try this.
Originally posted by groverat
And iTunes only works with one music player. YME works with the iPod as much as Apple will let it.
See, this is the kind of thing that you should know better and get right, so god help any non-Mac head who is exposed to the same propaganda.
Let's be clear.
Yahoo! Music Unlimited (the all-you-can-eat) only works with Janus compatible portable devices (not an incredibly long list as far as I am aware) plus Windows computers.
Yahoo! Music Experience (the player) works with a wide range of players including the iPod
iTunes Music Store tracks only work on all the various iPods (and I assume upcoming mobile phones with iTunes Mobile) plus Windows and Mac computers.
ITunes.app works with a wide range of portable players
Well the software seems to be essentially MusicMatch Jukebox.
Hey hey hey, give it a chance before comparing it to that piece of crap.
stupider:
Yahoo! Music Unlimited (the all-you-can-eat) only works with Janus compatible portable devices (not an incredibly long list as far as I am aware) plus Windows computers.
I don't remember saying anything different.
Yahoo! Music Experience (the player) works with a wide range of players including the iPod
Yes. And?
ITunes.app works with a wide range of portable players
Eh... what now?
Originally posted by groverat
[B]Hey hey hey, give it a chance before comparing it to that piece of crap.
Yeah, MusicMatch 8.2 (the last version I used) was not the best... but it was long before I started using iTunes so it was OK at the time.
I remember reading that Yahoo! bought MusicMatch some time ago. There's also a Yahoo! Music Unlimited icon in the MusicMatch Jukebox website.
I wonder if they just use MusicMatch code with a different UI or?
I tried Yahoo! and it does't look bad. It's still in Beta though. But much faster than iTunes in Windows. Damn, iTunes sux in Windows unless you have 512+ RAM.
Nick
For purchasing entire albums, you gotta love the CD.
Originally posted by CosmoNut
For purchasing entire albums, you gotta love the CD.
When is this technology going to be released? It sounds awesome!