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Emusic Relaunches - Cheap, DRM-Free Downloads
An anonymous reader writes "Emusic.com has relaunched today. This is important for several reasons. 1) They sell MP3s. No DRM. I can play them on my Linux box or wherever. 2) They are encoding at 192Kbit/s VBR. That's near CD quality (and how I rip my own CDs). They are focusing on lesser known independent music and providing some editorial content to separate the good from the bad. I see lots of great jazz, classical, and folk/country stuff in their library. 4) Subscription rate is 9.99/month for 40 tracks. That is $0.25 a track. Much cheaper than everywhere else. It's near my pricepoint. This is the first online music store that I will seriously consider. (And actually the first that I _can_ consider since I'm a linux user.)"
...welcome our Cheap, DRM-Free Music Downloading Overlords!
Friends help you move...
REAL Friends help you move dead bodies... ^_^
I think people -here- will complain they are not OGG.
:-)
Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate
Slashdot would NEVER post anything that was the result of any sort of favoritism. You sir are a troll.
Slashdot doesn't sell the right to post advertisements as news. Just FYI.
Yeah; why would anyone buy it when it's been given away for free for so long?
CD Quality? Pah!
I kidnap musicians and force them to sing and play by poking them with sharp sticks........
Now let me hit send and see how long it takes before the first, "Dude, your musical tastes blow," flame.
So do you have a Cheryl Teigs poster on your wall or Bo Derek?
Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
I encode all my CDs in 2822 kbps mp3s, thus exactly doubling the quality of the original CD.
--- We need more Ron Paul!
must host every song ever,
Hmm, in constant fear of accidently buying his songs, I downright refuse to patronize any site that will carry William Shatner's albums.
Pfft... Forget it then!
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Remind me to not go where you come from, then.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
Is it just me or does it seem like the Internet is trying to charge us for things we used to get for free?
Yeah...I remember the good ole days. Remember going to the binary bboards and "downloading" the pictures. Then I finally got UUEncode and could download the ~really big~ pictures. So you grab "babe_pt1", "babe_pt2", and "babe_pt3", merge them as you get ready to see some hottie and then realize you just wasted all that time putting together a picture of someone's pet pig. Such innocent days...and free.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts...for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang
Different people. Even when some people were saying "$0.99/track is OK" there were others saying "no way, that's the same as CD, I'd rather just buy the CD'.
Here's a hint. At the top of each message is a name. That name indicates a different person. By reading those names you can see that different people say different things. I can see how it might have confused you with lots of people saying different things on Slashdot. You clearly thought it was a single person with schizophrenia. But armed with this helpful hint you should now be able to distinguish different participants. HTH.
That's a pretty safe prediction because those sorts of people have already said as much in previous stories. Many of them want FLAC instead of a lossy MP3 or AAC format. Zero Nostradamus points for you, I'm afraid!