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Burn A Song For 99 Cents
tusixoh writes "CNN is running an article about an online music company, Listen.com, who has signed deals with Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group allowing users to burn songs from both companies' catalogs (more than 75,000 available tracks) on Listen's Rhapsody music subscription service for 99 cents per track. Until now, Rhapsody had primarily offered only streamed music to subscribers from all of the world's largest record labels as well as several independent labels." The upside of this, of course, is that it won't be necessary to pay for songs that are just "album filler".
You'd rather have ogg than wav?
I'd rather have Monkey (a lossless compression). Storage is going to kepp getting smaller and cheaper; let me have a lossless source so I can change formats with the storage space available to me.
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Why would one want to use this service when you can get mp3's and burn'em for free within minutes?
You know, a couple of years ago when this started to heat up, I would have been the first customer in line to use this service in order to prove that I'm willing to be legit about music. When they started doing things like proposing the SSSCA and accusing Apple of promoting piracy, they made me mad. So now my attitude is 'screw them'.
Translation: You still want an excuse to download music over P2P. Hey, that's fine, but don't try to cloak it in self-righteousness.
!#@%*)anks for hanging up the phone, dear.
Couldn't agree more! I have been a faithful subscriber for 6 or more months and love it. I haven't actually purchased a CD since. I have discovered new genres of music and a load of new artists. I actually listen to the music I have downloaded from emusic more than the hundreds of CD's i had purchased. and the good news is that half of the subscription goes to the artists I download. nice.