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Music 20 Cents a Track in India

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the cheap-tunes dept.

xzap writes "Indiatimes.com , an Indian portal is now offering "International Chart-Busting" music for download legally at Rs 10 (20 cents U.S) a song. They say they (through a partner) have tied up with music labels like BMG, EMI, Warner, Tips, Times Music, Lahari, Enrico Hindustan (which is the oldest catalogue of HMV) and Archies Music "." I still believe that if the bigs let us download MP3s for a quarter a track, we'd do it.

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  1. Soundbuzz by proxybyproxy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Although not mentioned in the article (why?), the site is already up at Soundbuzz.com

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    1. Re:Soundbuzz by twodiddyliddy · · Score: 3, Informative

      The site crapped when searching for songs (asp timeout), and besides it's napster ripoff logo, it seems like the real thing.

      A google search did come up with a lot of mirrors for "Soundbuzz - The Digital Music Revolution" (Christ, what a .com slogan)
      www.channelv.com/ferhad/
      hk.soundbuzz.ly cosasia.com/
      www.geocities.com/truly1206/tru9913. htm
      ip is: http://203.126.135.171/
      (looks like a basement project :)

      Anyway, I got this to work:
      http://203.126.135.171/freedownload.asp but when trying to actually get a file, it was not available.

      .... which would explain them not linking to soundbuzz in the article.

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  2. oldest catalogue in HMV? by YakumoFuji · · Score: 3, Informative

    hmm bollocks. I work in the data warehouse of HMV UK (where HMV started), and I can tell you its not the first entry in the master catalogue!

    not sure where indiatimes got their info from...

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  3. Re:Put your money where your mouth is by Contact · · Score: 3, Informative

    Erm, nope.

    Firstly, emusic isn't 5-10 bucks a month, it's 10-15.

    Secondly, their range is pretty restricted. For example, their "Rock / Alternative" section lists the grand total of 45 bands - if they're trying to promote new music, why isn't there more available? I may be missing something but when I trialled emusic I basically couldn't find enough to occupy me for a day, let alone the minimum three month subscription (or 12 months if you want to get the lower, 10 dollar a month rate).

    Thirdly, their MP3s are hardly high bitrate - everything is as 128 kbits, which might have been classed as high quality a few years ago, but in these days of vbr lame rips sounds decidedly shoddy.

    The emusic concept is quite good, but to entice me they'd need around 10-100 times as much content and decent quality mp3s.