e-music = sucks

azag will yell . . . but i gol (giggled out loud) at the fact that the "idealism" that screwed over the music industry, is now screwing over the user that was the one behind the initial screwing.

Bags wrote:
changes necessary to ensure the long-term sustainability of our business

In honor of Markie….

ding, Ding, DING

here's a list of what was added today….a whole lotta junk:

http://www.diehippiedie.com/emusic/listtoday.php

Vas wrote:
here's a list of what was added today….a whole lotta junk:

http://www.diehippiedie.com/emusic/listtoday.php

did you check out all 23,180 songs?  to come up with that number, you'd have to include a lot of filler…

I smell a rat regarding the breakaway of the those three indie labels, it's almost if there a plans to setup their own download service.  The NYT story of course quotes lots of unnamed sources familiar with the negotiations…

OK now emusic is really beginning to wear thin and this is a big change regarding the ability to re-download…. I was fine with the change in limiting re-downloads but this change turns them one step closer to really becoming iTMS  >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( 

also cloud smoud…

"eMusic?s policy on re-downloads hasn?t changed: members who experience a technical problem while downloading a track or album will be able to retry the download free of charge. What is new as of today is that we can now detect whether or not a download has been completed successfully. If we detect a problem with a download, the download button will turn red. Members can click it to retry the download at no charge. After a successful download, a blue button with a checkmark will appear. Members can click it to request an additional download but will be charged for it. If you want to get a copy of a song onto two different computers, one at work and one at home, for example, you?ll need to do this manually, with a USB flash drive or other method to avoid being charged again. As always, we recommend you back up your downloads regularly. In the event you are unable to complete a download due to a technical problem, please contact Customer Care for assistance.

Looking ahead, we are working on a digital locker which will allow members to access their music collection in the "cloud" with any web-enabled device. We hope to make this feature available in the New Year."

their new preferred plans are equally baffling… my two year account is being "upgraded" to a one time yearly account????? HUH????

and now I can't even figure out what date my music account reloads… i'm sending some pointed feedback and  leaning towards an account hold

it's my primary source for music these days, highly doubt any other site is as easy and straight forward at least the way I use eMusic.

i feel for you, kosmo. I never did the annual/2 year thing. I had two monthly accounts and I canceled each of them alternately every 3 months and they offered me 90 free downloads each time I rejoined…so I got a lot of free ones in the process (probably did it 8 times?)

anyway, i downloaded a bunch of Destroyer albums (Streethawk, Thief) during Merge's last day on emusic….great stuff.

I went ahead and axed my account as my monthly reup would have been today. I'll keep an eye on it, but that re-download option was really the last straw. I have two computers and it is so much easier than manually having to transfer them. </first world problem>

kosmo wrote:
and now I can&#039;t even figure out what date my music account reloads… i&#039;m sending some pointed feedback and&nbsp; leaning towards an account hold

I emailed the help desk on this issue – I have an annual account and nowhere is my monthly refresh date listed, which makes ensuring I don't lose credits REALLY hard.

I was told:  "We are sorry that you're having troubles viewing your refresh date. There's a bug in the system, where those members with annual plans are unable to see this date, when their subscription download credits get to zero. We're hard at work developing a solution to this. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. According to our records, your account is set to refresh on December 8, 2010."

Uh, that's no help at all.

And I was pretty worried about the redownload issue, so redownloaded a lot this past month (my hard drive crashed and I thought I had music backed up on server, but didn't – it's work, I have little control, I didn't know). 

sweetcell wrote:

Vas wrote:
here&#039;s a list of what was added today….a whole lotta junk:

http://www.diehippiedie.com/emusic/listtoday.php

did you check out all 23,180 songs?&nbsp; to come up with that number, you&#039;d have to include a lot of filler…

not that it should come as a surprise, but's it's not nearly as dire as Joe says it is :)

first off there is the Hip-O releases, Universal's version of Rhino.  Complete Motown singles boxset any one?.   There are several interesting BBC sessions available.   Lots of bands that seem to get people around here all excited…  I'm plenty of stuff for my save for later list… even spied some album I thought were only UK releases.

and a healthy chunk of what was added is Classical and releases by the giants of Jazz, just because this isn't your type of music doesn't make it bad.

the other day i went into a store a bought a cd.  i handed my money over and she handed me the cd.  it was easy.

the other day i realized the closest stores that sell CDs don't have the selection eMusic has….  and as a side note while plenty of indie sites sell digital downloads, eMusic serves a great aggregator which is why it pains me to see so…

that's what wrong with the world . . .  everybody wants everything at all times.  i like to pretend life is like christmas; it's nice to get things every once in a while.

With eMusic Christmas comes 12 times a year…  Possibly even 24 times ;)