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Technical Glitches Plague BuyMusic.com

Posted by timothy on from the thank-you-for-your-patience dept.

An anonymous reader submits: "Despite its much larger target market, BuyMusic.com does not seem to be the runaway success that Apple's iTunes Music Store was. USA Today is reporting that customers have experienced technical glitches that prevent them from playing their purchases. Another customer reports that the BuyMusic tech support does little more than say 'Sorry, but that's YOUR problem.' Finally, a musician whose music is for sale at BuyMusic questions the legality of BuyMusic's catalog." Scriptygoddess's account of her unhappy experience is mirrored here.

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  1. a/s/l? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    1. Re:a/s/l? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      52/m/Trenton, NJ

    2. Re:a/s/l? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Good enough for me.

      I put on my wizard hat and cape...

  2. Re:MOD PARENT UP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Clitorides.

  3. Re:GTAA kicks your ass at trolling ideas. Why fp? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I cannot believe someone actually modded this up.

    Marvelous accomplishment, troll.

  4. Re:A little old... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    no, fags read the Linux sites

  5. YOU HAVE A WONDERFUL GRASP OF THE OBVIOUS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


  6. Whats that site running? by NagaNine · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The site buymusic.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000. Windows 2000 users include Interland Microsoft-IIS is also being used by Rackshack

  7. Re:Different methaphor same problems. by Clock+Nova · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mod this up, right now. This is an excellent summary of the main problem with the current licensing schemes.

    --
    There they were, sitting in the van with all those dials, and the cat was dead. -V. Marchetti, CIA
  8. Who's the best P2P by pyroman1 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I have never used Napster or Kazaa, just because I haven't bothered to give it a try. So, since you mention Kazaa as being lowest of the low, what P2P software do most Slashdotters prefer?

  9. Re:What are they trying to prevent? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No, my vacations mostly involve going to the united states for some good sport fucking. The sepps women are good for sport fucking, but nothing else.

  10. Re:Me too.. Me too.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If Apple were intending to offset Windows Media they should have ported their codec to the standard Windows API for decompressing video and audio and let people use their player of choice, not force the use of some half-assed player which is only good for playing back one format.

    Windows Media Player can read Quicktime files, but lacks a codec for the Sorenson-encoded video within. Just like with Real, I boycotted Quicktime as soon as Apple decided to lock me into their nasty player. I can still play Windows Media. Who loses?