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MP3.com 'Subscriber Service'
nelomolen writes: "Looks like MP3.com is trying to promote a new $2.99/month ($29.99/year) ad-free service. as a listener I've come to love MP3.com as it provides exposure to a LOT of good music (and bad). In the past I know artists have had it out for MP3.com in regards to their "payback for playback" -- wonder if this new ad-free subscription service will help?"
WTF? I have to pay 20$ a month to get paid? Mp3.com takes their cut of the subscriber money and then redistributes the rest back to artists by popularity ... So alot of artists loosing money is paying for the few who are making alot of money :)
Free Techno/Jazz/DNB/MI Music by guys obsessed with monkeys!
You'd never know they existed, but eMusic is already offering unlimited mp3 downloads of major-label albums for $10/month.
I think the reason you don't hear anything about them is that they were acquired by Vivendi-Universal, who is quietly sitting on them until they roll out whatever big new service they're developing.
I assume eMusic's successor will only offer crippled mp3s that can't be copied or that expire after some period of time, but for now, they've got plain ol' mp3s -- and they even make it easy to download a whole album with one click.
The downside, of course, is that they have a limited selection of music. You can't download any CD ever recorded. But there is a lot of good music on there. For example, they seem to have the entire Fantasy Records catalogue online, which, if you're a jazz or blues fan, means a whole lot of really good albums. In the first week, I downloaded 62 albums.
I assume that one day eMusic will morph into something I no longer want to subscribe to, but until then I'm sucking down everything I can grab.
It's definitely worth checking out.
No, most sites DON'T get ad impresions if the page is loaded without viewing the ad. Most of these softwares work on the principle that the counter isn't incremented until the banner loads.
But yeah, I think it is an individuals right to not load up advertisements on his or her computer if they want. I just don't think its very moral.
I simply tend NOT to go to sites that bombard me with advertisements. I use to love the Onion, but there is something in their Javascript that constantly crashes my browsers with their popups. I don't visit them anymore. Its like the X10 stuff...I have a crap load of this stuff from back in the days when they simply had the skanky ads of half nekkid women that had nothing to do with their products. I can deal with small advertisements...and I can laugh at sites that know how to get their target audience to look (see: half nekkid), but once they stated spamming every damn site with the popups I stopped buying their products. Smarthome.com offers the same thing without all the popups, so they will be getting all my purchases from now on.
Maybe some of us content providers should start applying the DCMA to our websites. By loading the following links into your computer, you agree to have them display as they were intended by their designers. My site doesn't advertise for its bandwidth, I don't like obnoxious advertising, but its really the owners of the content that should decide how it should be displayed. If you don't like that, there are a dozen other sites that give you the same thing...
clif
sonikmatter.com
Trust their customers? Haha! Guess they forgot to mention their little crusade back in the days before the Napster filters, when they encoded watermarks into all of their MP3 files and then got users who were trading them on Napster banned...
;-D
BTW, most of the MP3s in my collection are 128k. That seems to be the most popular format for trading, since it fits decent quality into a very reasonable file size (something slightly less than 1MB/min.). Yeah, I know you "purists" out there will mod me down, but I just don't have the hard drive space to store 320k MP3s of all my music, and 128k sounds fine to me on my system. Not as good as higher rates, of course...if I were burning to a CD or something, I'd want better quality, but for listening on my computer, I'd rather have twice as much music at 128k quality than what I could fit on my drive at 320k. And since my CD player's busted...
Also BTW, I've found many great artists through MP3.com...Blue Cyberia, Amethystium, 303Infinity, Egan, Higgins, and my favorite, GNOMUSY. All excellent music that probably won't ever see the light of day on a RIAA-produced medium. If you find an artist you like, buy one of their CDs for $10 or so.
DennyK
I love their service! I would happily trade a latte per month for their continued survival! I listen to them DAILY...
Seriously, guys! This is one of the largeest available archives of international, cultural music... anywhere.
They want less per month than a beer at the local pub. Give it to 'em! I urge my friends to do the same...
-Ben
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.