TeledyN - Let's Face eMusic (and Dance) - Comments

You may have garnered too much

a stranger — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 11:15:02 -0500

You may have garnered too much attention as the site is down. Did you Oprah them?

"eMusic Temporarily Unavailable

We're very sorry but eMusic is unavailable at the moment. Our engineering team is working to correct the problem as quickly as possible. We appreciate your patience and apologize for this inconvenience. "

I haven't yet jumped on the trial

a stranger — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:30:36 -0500

I haven't yet jumped on the trial, but it sounds like an adjunct to, not a replacement for iTunes, et al. They don't overlap all that much, from what I can tell. You mention a lot of known artists, but for the kidz who want the kewl hits, they're gonna find them at iTunes, just like they used to hit the record shop at the mall [shudder].

I'm more interested in the tug-o-war between Jobs/Apple and the labels: Apple is quoted as being on the sides of keeping prices down and the labels are wanted to charge more for some tracks. I note no one wants the lower prices further: .99 seems to be the sweet spot for now.

Apple's most recent sales number for music were pretty amazing.

* 850 million songs purchased and downloaded
* 3 million songs per day

at a dime a track or whatever Apple is getting, that's not trivial. But the labels are wanting even more?

Let's Face eMusic (and Dance)

mrG — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:51:16 -0500

Still lining up to re-buy the same old pop-tunes? GoTriad's Pat Egan has put together an excellent how-to on why you don't want to play the me-pod/nabster game, and thanks to a new mp3-mart upstart called eMusic.com, maybe you won't need to.

eMusic?

Never heard of it? Maybe you enjoy overpaying for overhyped overproduction, since apparently that's the hip now way to be, but then again, being a reader here, you're more than likely the sane and reasonable sort and maybe you'd rather save your booty for concert tix instead. And if that's so, then you're probably wondering just who is this eMusic underdog and what's its deal. For starters, stick this bit of PR in your me-pod for a preview:

"Try it for free, and eMusic will give you 50 songs just to take a poke around. If you like it, choose a plan that costs 22 cents to 25 cents per song ... Prepay for a year, and ... pay 18.5 cents per track."
[ Move over, iTunes ]

That's like 4 free albums and then an ongoing 5-for-one sale compared to the usual leechers. Not a bad deal on the door-crasher. Only, it gets better ...