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Emusic Relaunches - Cheap, DRM-Free Downloads

Posted by timothy on from the if-they-have-what-you-want dept.

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.)"

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  1. I for one... by XaviorPenguin · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...welcome our Cheap, DRM-Free Music Downloading Overlords!

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  2. Re:Pricepoint? by stickystyle · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think people -here- will complain they are not OGG.
    :-)

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  3. Re:Slashvertisement by mattdm · · Score: 3, Funny

    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?

  4. Re:Uh... near CD quality? by brxndxn · · Score: 5, Funny

    I encode all my CDs in 2822 kbps mp3s, thus exactly doubling the quality of the original CD.

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  5. Re:Pricepoint? by nathanh · · Score: 4, Funny
    First it was anything but $0.99/track is not cheap enough. Then $0.99 is not enough,.. Now people are not even willing to spend a whole quarter for a song?

    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.

    I think there are some people here who will still be complaining when they are free, just because they aren't encoded at a high enough bitrate!

    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!