Emusic Relaunches - Cheap, DRM-Free Downloads

Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 22, 2004 @08:13AM 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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Re:I for one... by strictfoo · 2004-09-22 08:38 · Score: 0, Offtopic

He contributes money to Hamas. Hamas has killed Americans.

I'm glad we through him out.

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Feedin' da troll, feedin' da trolll... dat dat dah by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-22 08:44 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Anyone that advocates hatecrimes deserves to be booted out of the country.
"Since late 80s when he backed a death sentence to the author of "Satanic Verses" Salman Rushdie, Stevens' music was boycotted by many radio stations in Britain, USA and elsewhere"