subscription resumes at emu - thawts?

brittleblood

i had placed my subscription on hold for 2 months. it has re-up'd and i'm wondering "should i be aware of something which happened while i was snooz'n?"

warnings? urgent recs? etc.

six.
eight.

elwoodicious

Um, I've been happily lost in the stacks to be aware of anything afoot other than the rumors of an impending price hike.

That said, why have you not been listening to this?



Seriously. Get it.

BigD-Bluez

What chu wanna know, man? They've been re-tooling the site a lot - emphasis on tool in my book. New releases have been totally whack lately. I just hang in there because I've got about 1300 possibilities in various SFL lists that I can probably get cheaper there than elsewhere. Maybe Universal later in the year, maybe price increase.

Rec - The World Ends:Afro Rock and Psychedelia in 1970s Nigeria (Soundways) - sorry no link but I stay away from there during the daytime - all that retooling has the aged browser on my work rig spinning its head.

brittleblood

i will prolly rush my xmas mix dl's simply to side-step the increase/avoid album only dribble/etc. the end is prolly in sight.

amclark2

the only reason I'm holding on now is that I have the (incredibly naive) hope that this time around my account might actually be grandfathered, and it might cost more to re-up than just to hold on. Come to think of it maybe an account hold is just what the doctor ordered.

Doofy

I am sitting on one last BB card, and have been assuming that I should wait until the relaunch to see what new stuff might be available. On the other hand, who knows what the fate of my poor li'l BB card might be after the "re-launch." I think I just answered my own question, prob. best to cash in before the switch (but hold at least some credits for after). God knows I have enuf new music to listen to at the moment.

I never got around to doing the annual upgrade, so I still have my grandfathered account but didn't get the 100 bonus credits. Suspect that will look like the wrong decision in a few weeks.

bluesboy

Unless they've hired a new technology company to handle the "relaunch", I am expecting the absolute worst. They can't get Tuesday new releases listed in "Freshly Ripped" for days, the message board has been wonkier than usual, and CathyHN has surfaced to apologize for things. In my mind, it doesn't bode well at all.

If I were Universal, I would be seriously concerned about eMusic's ability to maintain a website that can actually deliver their music to consumers. On the other hand, eMusic has been consistently successful in charging my credit card, so they clearly know how to do some things well.

Doofy

They have just launched a re-tooled search. Results look prettier and are sorted a little differently, but functionality shows little or no change.

Is it really that hard to design an advanced search, which you can sort/filter using different fields? Maybe it is...come to think of it, I guess Amazon is the only music site that actually has such capability.

Daniel, Esq.

So far, I like the old search function better.

Doofy

Oh nuts....Prestige/Fantasy has gone to album pricing. They were there briefly right after the switch, iirc, then went back to track pricing. It seems to have been adopted somewhat sensibly, but albums with 10:00+ tracks have gone up to 12 credits (and album-only on the longer tracks). Albums with no long tracks are still track-priced.

...Or maybe this happened a while ago and I missed it. Anyway, glad I grabbed as many of these as I did at track pricing. At least some of these, eg here, are now priced at 12 and no longer available to me for re-DL.

thomnottom

I think it happened a few months ago. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think they switched digital distribution channels, upped the VBR settings, and switched to album pricing all at the same time. There was an announcement in the forums to give people a chance to re-download.

Doofy

Thanks Thom, guess I missed it. As mentioned, album pricing seems to have been applied reasonably, eg, this one.

amclark2

The distribution switch was a couple of months ago but they were still on track pricing when IODA made the big switch. I checked something as recently as a couple of weeks ago and it was still track pricing I'm pretty sure.

amclark2

well this has convinced me to get the GAS boxset before Kompakt makes the switch too.

kargatron

I don't see any "reasonable" customizations within the Fantasy pricing schedules: note there's "Fantasy Records" and "Fantasy/Prestige" - the former is album-priced as normal, and the latter is not at all yet. Am I missing something where "reason" is applied to specific albums?

Doofy

karg, you're right. I never noticed that label distinction before.

And yep, album pricing seems to apply to all Fantasy albums with tracks of 10 minutes plus. So I guess if they're 'reasonable,' it's accidental.

This seems reasonable to me.

Not so much.

Album-priced bargain

BigD-Bluez

I checked one of my backlists, found the Charles Mingus Quartet plus Max Roach - Fantasy, 6 tracks, 12 credits. 5 single credit tracks, and I'll Remember April at 13:06 in length kicking it up another 7 credits. I DL'd the 5, and I'll live without the sixth. F**k it. Compare @ Amazon where they want $9.49 for the album, and they made 2 tracks Album Only, so if you had to have the album the eMu ripoff is still a better price. You can get the CD for 11.98, or go used
iTunes wants $9.99, same 2 tracks Album Only. Puke.

Edit - Snap, thank you very much Geico, I just got I'll Remember April at Guvera. For free.

Katrina

GUvera is going ot be realy cool for those situations, I think. At least now in their infancy, while they are so disorganized.