When trying to get onto emusic a few minutes ago at here I somehow got into the old screen, even though it is up to date. As soon as you click on anything it goes to the contemporary version. But it does remind me even now how much better the old system was. But I wonder why I can still access that page?
My three month hold has just come to an end, I've had my 'welcome back to eMusic' email and have headed over there with some enthusiasm, only to find the homepage won't load to the extent of letting me sign in. I don't think I've ever spent as long willing a company to get it right in the face of all the adverse signs.
It's incredibly buggy. I had to click to another page before I got a sign in option. Then when I clicked for details of an album, the page wouldn't load but it did helpfully sign me back out again. It's getting to the unuseable stage.
Annual since 2006 like you, with purchases of boosters throughout. I didn't get a "loyalty bonus" until I bitched. And this has been the first time that I haven't gotten a bonus.
Check this:
Sorry about any confusion here. While we cant disclose the selection criteria for the loyalty rewards, we certainly dont want you to feel left out. We appreciate all of our members' continued loyalty and have gone ahead and added the credit to those of you on this thread who did not receive it last week. Please note it's good for 5 days from today's date. Let us know if we can help!
-Jamie
eMusic Moderator
There were some messages after this from people who have been in longer than we have been members who didn't get it.
I found out about this today - with only 2 days left on my clock. Although I'm in-between my monthly re-charge, browser problems led me to log in to the site to see that I had a $10 credit. Then I read the message board to see the quoted message. If not for BT, I wouldn't have gotten the $10. Thanks BT.
BT, almost certainly, since it's very difficult to zero out a rolling balance. Most of my account's time is spent in the <$0.49 range (now, it's at $0.26).
Someone -- I say "someone" -- on the emusic message boards just speculated that eMusic's plan is to focus all energies on the mobile cell platform. Ice wondered that, too, actually. If it's true, they might lose me as customer, too.
I don't see why anyone would want to use a cell phone as their music device, tho my ex-law partner did (and loved it). I do love the Droid App, tho., judged solely on its merits (in that regard, doesn't hurt that I've been without my "music laptop" for about 10 days).
I don't see why anyone would want to use a cell phone as their music device
Agreed! I don't want my music tied to one device. I don't want my music tied to one company. I don't want one company to have that much power over my listening. And I don't want to treat my music like ephemera.
"a cell phone as their music device"? I'm not sure what that means. A cell phone these days works quite well as a portable music player in general. Am I missing some context for a program that uses only a cell phone for the source of all listening? There are specific reasons that I keep my ipod nano even though I have an iPhone (due to the weird lack of live-updating in the iPhone smart playlists), but for most people, they're functionally equivalent, and fulfill the need for "one's single portable music player".
Ah, ok. If you dislike your particular phone as a playback device, ok - but you said "I don't see why anyone would want to use a cell phone as their music device". I'd guess most contemporary phone models mimic contemporary portable mp3 players quite readily - I've never noticed playback quality differences between ipod and iphone, and the functional differences exist but are perhaps on the esoteric side.
You have an Android phone whose playback quality suffers in comparison to a dedicated mp3 player? Interesting.
I like my iPhone as a play device generally, but I do notice, that compared with an iPhone, with headphones, sometimes the volume doesn't go as low as I would like it to, and with speakers, the iPods have a lot higher volume on the high end.
I'd be less worried about whether cell phones can be MP3 players and more about whether that means other users (like me) have to settle for a permanently clunky interface. Although I think I'm somewhat resignd to that already so maybe even that is moot. Whether to use the cell phone for music is also moot for me as I don't use a cellphone (except scrappy prepaid one for emergencies that I only carry on road trips.)
I'd be less worried about whether cell phones can be MP3 players and more about whether that means other users (like me) have to settle for a permanently clunky interface.
Which one? I meant the website interface, which I do not consider good; the implied question was whether if they are prioritizing phones that means fixing the regular website will go slower than its existing very slow speed.
Ha, for the record, I do not believe I have ever seen a cell phone music app interface. (Except I suppose for iPhone ones that are the same on iPod Touch - I have soundcloud and Pandora on my Touch.) As noted earlier I do not use a cell phone. Apologies for the lack of initial clarity. Glad to hear you all have literate dogs :-).
Picked this thread just as a catch-all for this gripe, not eMu's fault, but.....is this what happens when you don't know jack about classical music because your parents didn't know jack or care or you thought they were square or you didn't learn jack about music in school but you want your kid to know more than the jack you don't?
Well, there is that thing out there where Bach can make your baby a genius, which of course is silliness, but on the other hand, all these selections are short, because babies have zero attention span, which is gospel.
For the record, I use my Galaxy Nexus as my primary music player these days. It's got 32GB of storage and a 3G/4G pipe to the 10k tracks I've currently got up in the Google Cloud. Why would I want to buy another device to have to carry around?
Now if only Google would add album shuffle and dynamic playlists to their player I'd be ecstatic.
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Annual since 2006 like you, with purchases of boosters throughout. I didn't get a "loyalty bonus" until I bitched. And this has been the first time that I haven't gotten a bonus.
Check this:
There were some messages after this from people who have been in longer than we have been members who didn't get it.
I found out about this today - with only 2 days left on my clock. Although I'm in-between my monthly re-charge, browser problems led me to log in to the site to see that I had a $10 credit. Then I read the message board to see the quoted message. If not for BT, I wouldn't have gotten the $10. Thanks BT.
I don't see why anyone would want to use a cell phone as their music device, tho my ex-law partner did (and loved it). I do love the Droid App, tho., judged solely on its merits (in that regard, doesn't hurt that I've been without my "music laptop" for about 10 days).
Not enough storage space; poor sound quality (even worse than traditional MP3s).
You have an Android phone whose playback quality suffers in comparison to a dedicated mp3 player? Interesting.
but the interface iz good!
Some even used a phone to read and "talk".
Now if only Google would add album shuffle and dynamic playlists to their player I'd be ecstatic.