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MP3.com 'Subscriber Service'

Posted by timothy on from the now-how-much-would-you-pay dept.

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?"

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  1. Check out eMusic by EisPick · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.