I still think they need to change their new "Album Does Not Exist" icon to be an EMPTY album sleeve. I see the picture and keep getting my hopes up that the album *does* exist. ;-)
You’re on your way to work and you’ve got a bit of a commute. You
put your favorite playlist on and start moving your lips to the tune of
“Man in Black” by the late and great Johnny Cash.
Johnny stops singing abruptly and so do you. Argh! Lost connection
yet again. If only there was something to do about that…oh, wait! There
is!
eMusic is very excited to introduce you to its latest feature: Offline Playlists!
Here’s how it works:
Login to the eMusic app, go into My Music and then into Playlists.
Click on a playlist and then press the toggle to make it available offline.
Easy, ain’t it?
Mind you, you have to be online for the tracks to download onto your
device. You can undo that action at any point by just pressing the
toggle again, keeping the option of easily returning it to an offline
playlist OR remove the album from device, individually or as a whole
through the playlist’s More Options menu.
If you wish to, you can add more tracks to the (offline) playlist and
they will automatically be downloaded and included with the rest of the
songs.
So, next time you head to work or return home after a night out, you
can sing along without fearing that Thom Yorke will leave you high and
dry.
- I have no idea what this is about and not interested enough to find out
ETA: that quote thing works in mysterious ways . . .
I think their time would be better spent trying to get the labels back that have been lost and maybe customers such as myself might think about joining again.
Thought 1: this is really weird. Emusic is (has been) a download service, not a streaming service. This new feature basically tells me the exciting news that I can download my music - from a download service, no less! - to listen to it. I never use emusic any other way, so apparently I was a very early adopter of this new feature. Although I do not do playlists, and seem to remember that their surveys have been saying that most emusic users like to listen to whole albums. It also sounds like a streaming service feature, and they have said that is not what they are aiming to become. So this does not seem to scratch where most members would be itching. (Which, as others have said, is catalog).
Thought 2: Maybe this is how you have to market downloading in the era of streaming. “Hey folk, it is just like streaming except you can listen to it offline!” Kind of like how selling us music at resolutions that used to be the way we got all of our music has been remarketed to us in the wake of MP3 as a special “high definition” option for more money. I was chatting with a colleague the other day who buys and downloads a lot too and seemed excited about the options now for uploading his collection to a service and removing it from the hard drive, so who knows, maybe they are on to something. I am certainly out of step with the times enough to be a bad target to build a market around.
I think downloading for offline listening has been a standard feature of streaming services for quite some years now. Indeed, it is probably on its way to becoming obsolete, as more people get "unlimited data" on their phones.
I was thinking about this the other day, how many people use Spotify ect and listening through their phones. Before Xmas my Creative MP3 was stolen and I had to decide if I got a new one or use my phone as a player.
I bought myself a FiiO with a 128g sd which is great so I have plenty of music to listen to and also music that I own. As its my 4th Sd card it means I can have a vast amount of music as my disposal.
E Music has just missed the boat on this, Bandcamp in the main have a really good model of being able to stream the music on their site and looking at the options E Music to set it's self as a streaming option will not work. Today there were reports that Spotify is leaking huge amounts of money and if they cannot make a profit there is little chance that E Music's model will work
Just a heads up on this album - https://www.emusic.com/album/2255917/Mr-Big/The-Stories-We-Could-Tell . Only one track, East/West, downloads as an MP3 file, the rest are empty exe files. Notified Customer Service, got the refund, but eMu does not have a good track record for fixing these kind of issues. This is where one misses the kind of interactive aspects of the olde, olde eMu where you could post an opinion and warn other customers about these kind of things.
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and
6.3 Subject to certain limitations, eMusic allows you to place your paid Account(s) on hold for thirty (30), sixty (60), or ninety (90) days (“Hold Period”) starting the day before the next cycle associated with your Music Service Level (i.e., the next month if monthly Service level, the next quarter if quarterly Service level, etc.), except for annual Music Service Levels for which the Hold Period will start the day before the next one calendar month cycle. You may only put your Account on hold once within a year. For the avoidance of doubt, this means that there must be a minimum of one year’s time between the end of one Hold Period and the beginning of the next Hold Period. Notwithstanding, Open Access Plans can never be put on hold. During your Hold Period, you will not be charged and you will not be able to use your digital wallet to download any content available on the eMusic Service. At the end of your Hold Period, your account will be re-activated and you will be charged the fee associated with your current Music Service Level; if you have an annual account, at the end of your Hold Period your annual account will be re-activated and, if your annual Music Service Level reaches its renewal period during the Hold Period, you will be charged the fee associated with such Music Service Level, in accordance with section 6.2 and 6.3 above.
Maybe even more.
.3 If you do not have a Paid Music Account, we may terminate your access to and/or your account with the eMusic Service if you haven’t logged into the eMusic Service for six (6) consecutive months. Using the email address associated with your account, we will provide you with advance notice of termination as well as the opportunity to prevent termination and export your content stored in Your Cloud. If after said notice you do not take the steps we ask of you specified in said notice, your access may be terminated and we may delete all content stored in Your Cloud, including but not limited to content you uploaded that was not purchased on the eMusic Service.
The problem as I see it is that your only option now is to cancel -- and apparently, that means immediately removing your uploads and purchase history.
That's a reduction in allowable holds. It used to be two per year. Hard to blame them on that, though; the current regime had set them up for a possible pattern of binging on 2-for-1 sales and then disappearing for 6 months a year, which can't in the end help cash flow.
I cancelled six weeks or so ago. I can still access My Music, and as I understand it from the email I received I can go back on the same terms as previously. These new terms and conditions may change that - but I am not convinced yet that that is the case as the above is a bit ambiguous.
With regard to current offers, that is pretty good if you can find that much to download! The top offer works out at under 16p per track, 20% better than my old granfathered plan. if there was enough I wanted to download I'd be prepared to go back on their basic plan to get those prices, but of course there is no guarantees on how long such deals will be around.
I just went on emusic and navigated to an album from my wishlist and got that "album does not exist" page. Lately when this happens I have been shrugging and deleting the album from my wishlist. The thing is, I had been viewing that album a half hour earlier.
Bad timing? Nope.
Turns out the album does not exist in Firefox, but it does exist in Chrome.
ETA, and now, a little later, it exists in Firefox again.
Interesting, could my purchase of yet another booster pack have anything to do with this? I am thinking several others here will be getting the invite. Not sure how the reward would work for me but I think I'll sign up as long as they don't want my inside-leg measurement.
Too late positions of glory all grabbed by Nighthawks while I was getting my beauty sleep. -------------
I would like to invite you to take part in an eMusic Facebook Focus Group to help us better understand the needs of the music collector.
Based on your collection in the eMusic cloud, we can see that you are part of an elite group of music enthusiasts. Our goal is to understand your needs better in order to build the right product features for you and other members that value a digital music collection.
A Facebook Focus Group is a relatively new way to interact directly with people in a private environment over a short period of time. Over the course of 5 days, we will pose questions and polls for your opinion and comments - all focused on how you store, manage, and enjoy your extensive music library. There will be somewhere between 10-20 participants per focus group.
Dates of participation: Monday March 12 - Friday March 16
Time commitment/day: We ask that you please login in at least once a day for 10 minutes (any time) to read over comments/questions and post any replies, opinions and thoughts that you have. Total minimum = 50 minutes over 5 days.
As a token of appreciation for members that join the group, we’d like to offer a free month of our Premium Plan, which will be applied to your account on March 17, following the end of the group. This will include $17.99 in music credits that can be used for purchasing up to 3 albums from our catalog.
Well, I find that Joe Bonamassa's label J&R Adventures is back after disappearing for two weeks. Is there hope others will return as well? https://www.emusic.com/label/32074/JR-Adventures OMG - maybe. Tomkins Square is also back. Folkways also - Arrgh, some but not all. Alas, Hallmark and Sundazed are not. If you find one that disappeared on you, probably better to reel it in.
I've just descovered that Emusic let me buy this album again despite having bought it just back in July last year. Now I'm not going to go into a corner and cry about that (though it would have been nice to have been warned) but I did note that looking at the last track my original download was a horrible VBR of around 158kbps and my recent duplicate 320kbps. I guess this just means that when they got into bed with 7 Digital or whoever the received up-graded files. Oh and they don't show up as duplicates on my system because of course Emusic changed its file naming convention when it stopped using a downloader. Ho Ho.
I've recently noticed that my latest downloads haven't listed "Purchased from 7digital.com". in the comments section of iTunes. I don't know if it means anything, just that I noticed it.
I've recently noticed that my latest downloads haven't listed "Purchased from 7digital.com". in the comments section of iTunes. I don't know if it means anything, just that I noticed it.
I don't think so . . . For as long as I remember, some has it and others doesn't - Depending on the supplier I guess . . . I use Winamp.
Yes, tonight's download was back to listing it in the comments. As I've been editing the library, I normally add some kind of comment about the album so I can't remember which ones had or didn't have it listed.
Something positive: Mordant Music has returned for UK users.
Something (very) negative: UK users have awoken today to an unannounced change to album pricing (although d/l individual tracks can still add up to less, it's much more of a faff).
As I've just bought a booster pack that I'm struggling to spend this may well be the last straw.
Looks like I'm going to have to find some bargain multi-disc sets that would have otherwise been cheaper to buy on cd.
At least one item in my SFL is now cheaper on Bandcamp, where I can get it in FLAC ( and is album-only in EMu)
Comments
Offline Playlists
Login to the eMusic app, go into My Music and then into Playlists.
Click on a playlist and then press the toggle to make it available offline.
- I have no idea what this is about and not interested enough to find out
ETA: that quote thing works in mysterious ways . . .
- Or as @soulcoal put it on the SR:
Thought 2: Maybe this is how you have to market downloading in the era of streaming. “Hey folk, it is just like streaming except you can listen to it offline!” Kind of like how selling us music at resolutions that used to be the way we got all of our music has been remarketed to us in the wake of MP3 as a special “high definition” option for more money. I was chatting with a colleague the other day who buys and downloads a lot too and seemed excited about the options now for uploading his collection to a service and removing it from the hard drive, so who knows, maybe they are on to something. I am certainly out of step with the times enough to be a bad target to build a market around.
I bought myself a FiiO with a 128g sd which is great so I have plenty of music to listen to and also music that I own. As its my 4th Sd card it means I can have a vast amount of music as my disposal.
E Music has just missed the boat on this, Bandcamp in the main have a really good model of being able to stream the music on their site and looking at the options E Music to set it's self as a streaming option will not work. Today there were reports that Spotify is leaking huge amounts of money and if they cannot make a profit there is little chance that E Music's model will work
They changed a lot of things recently. Such as
and
Maybe even more.
The one from february 2018:
With regard to current offers, that is pretty good if you can find that much to download! The top offer works out at under 16p per track, 20% better than my old granfathered plan. if there was enough I wanted to download I'd be prepared to go back on their basic plan to get those prices, but of course there is no guarantees on how long such deals will be around.
Bad timing? Nope.
Turns out the album does not exist in Firefox, but it does exist in Chrome.
ETA, and now, a little later, it exists in Firefox again.
Don't trust the denials!
I am thinking several others here will be getting the invite. Not sure how the reward would work for me but I think I'll sign up as long as they don't want my inside-leg measurement.
Too late positions of glory all grabbed by Nighthawks while I was getting my beauty sleep.
-------------
A Facebook Focus Group is a relatively new way to interact directly with people in a private environment over a short period of time. Over the course of 5 days, we will pose questions and polls for your opinion and comments - all focused on how you store, manage, and enjoy your extensive music library. There will be somewhere between 10-20 participants per focus group.
Dates of participation:
Monday March 12 - Friday March 16
Time commitment/day:
We ask that you please login in at least once a day for 10 minutes (any time) to read over comments/questions and post any replies, opinions and thoughts that you have. Total minimum = 50 minutes over 5 days.
As a token of appreciation for members that join the group, we’d like to offer a free month of our Premium Plan, which will be applied to your account on March 17, following the end of the group. This will include $17.99 in music credits that can be used for purchasing up to 3 albums from our catalog.
Click here for more information and to participate.
FYI: a blogpost from march 1.
Top of 2018: Domino Records Features
https://www.emusic.com/label/32074/JR-Adventures
OMG - maybe. Tomkins Square is also back. Folkways also - Arrgh, some but not all.
Alas, Hallmark and Sundazed are not. If you find one that disappeared on you, probably better to reel it in.
again despite having bought it just back in July last year. Now I'm not going to go into a corner and cry about that (though it would have been nice to have been warned) but I did note that looking at the last track my original download was a horrible VBR of around 158kbps and my recent duplicate 320kbps. I guess this just means that when they got into bed with 7 Digital or whoever the received up-graded files. Oh and they don't show up as duplicates on my system because of course Emusic changed its file naming convention when it stopped using a downloader. Ho Ho.
As far as I remember, this is the first time an Emu page shows up:
https://www.emusic.com/album/1832459/Henry-Kaiser-And-Wadada-Leo-Smith/YO-MILES-Lightning
https://www.emusic.com/label/125769/ESP-Disk?sortField=RELEASE_DATE&descending&pageNumber=1
And with what seems to be the latest releases:
https://www.emusic.com/label/641598/ESP-Disk?sortField=RELEASE_DATE&descending&pageNumber=1
- Depending on the supplier I guess . . .
I use Winamp.
Something (very) negative: UK users have awoken today to an unannounced change to album pricing (although d/l individual tracks can still add up to less, it's much more of a faff).
As I've just bought a booster pack that I'm struggling to spend this may well be the last straw.
Looks like I'm going to have to find some bargain multi-disc sets that would have otherwise been cheaper to buy on cd.
At least one item in my SFL is now cheaper on Bandcamp, where I can get it in FLAC ( and is album-only in EMu)
Nice one, eMusic...