Yahoo Introduces Competitor for iTunes

Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 10, 2005 @10:22PM from the rumblings-of-giants dept.

LadyDeath writes "After a year in development, Yahoo has launched its competitor to Apple's iTunes and Napster To Go, a subscription and download music service priced at only $4.99 per month. Tracks are offered in 192Kbps WMA, and can be transferred to portable devices. Perhaps most interesting to the Slashdot crowd is that the Yahoo! Music Engine is built on an open platform that facilitates plug-ins - both DLL and Web based. Podcasting and video playback plug-ins are already available." Update: 05/11 13:06 GMT by T : ian c rogers, formerly of Nullsoft, just led the build of the media player, and writes with information about "the the plugin architecture it supports as well as some of the 20 plugins that are already available for it. I've posted my thoughts on why someone should or shouldn't use the Yahoo! Music Engine on my blog."

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DRM by MrJules · 2005-05-10 22:24 · Score: 5, Funny

...devices supporting Microsoft's Janus digital rights management technology. jon.... Jon?
Hey George! by camperslo · 2005-05-10 22:33 · Score: 4, Funny

Forget that WMD thing we never found across the planet, there's WMA right here and WMV around the corner.
haha by Anonymous Coward · 2005-05-10 22:35 · Score: 5, Funny

I tried it out, the DRM is an annoying voice at the beginning of each song that goes "Yahooooooooo-oooooo!". Noone will copy that!
1. Re:haha by ceeam · 2005-05-10 23:15 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  They don't offer anything besides country?
2. Re:haha by tdemark · 2005-05-11 00:01 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Sure... they also offer Western.