What? I had almost a month left to spend the last one, and aren't they 90 day credits? That must make it barely 2 months since the last one. Which suggests to me either (1) that their contracts with labels make their payouts dependent on what customers pay, so that a sale costs emusic nothing, and they are more worried about erosion of customer base than label happiness, or (2) they need more dollars in to make due payments, either of which seems ominous.
I hope this sale won't tempt me back out of my hold, I have so much new music. But the flesh may be weak.
I guess I assume that artists get paid less for sales with booster dollars. I was still holding onto a couple of album's worth of booster bucks, get thee behind me Satan
These booster sales have been occurring reliable every 3 months, so I went ahead and downgraded my membership to the lowest possible monthly rate and then buy the max booster credits when they arrive.
I understand the disillusionment with emusic and emusic definitely does not have the best business model or the best web application, but in exchange you get low prices and sales. Frankly, it surprises me that the major labels would have abandoned emusic so quickly. Believe me, I've seen the rates they get from spotify and pandora. It ain't anywhere near what they can get from emusic.
Frankly I do enjoy the "game" aspects of being able to pick what albums to buy every month. It has made me more adventurous and willing to explore.....Strange that the emusic website is just so awful at helping people to explore; they have to do it elsewhere.
Every time I am away for more than a few days I wonder if emusic will still be there when I return! WE don't get the booster sales in the same way - the prices have stayed the same for several years. But I am not complaining as I am on such a good deal anyway. I see what you mean idiotprogrammer about the game aspect of it all. I do buy music that I wouldn't otherwise get. But it also leads to music overload, hence the occasional hold to try to catch up.
I've stuck with DL Manager 4.1 because it has continued to serve me well., no real problems. But for the last couple of months it has started to stop in the middle of downloading, freezing my computer for a few seconds or more. This is now getting worse, today taking nearly thirty minutes to download a 50 minute album with lots of breaks in the downloading.. It must be an emu problem as it doesn't happen with other music downloads. I suspect the time has come to upgrade. Anything in particular I should look out for?
I have had no real issues with the DLM with eMusic, Amazon is a living hell. I have passed on several Amazon purchases knowing the stupid download software would not work.
Donkey balls would be preferable to the Amazon downloader.
Greg, I really would try to make the 6.x manager work with your system.
I feel your pain because I originally had 6, screwed that up, downgraded to 4 and that worked for a long while, and then it totally screwed up.
The issue for me turned out to be simple. Manually log in right before downloading. Even though the screen may show you logged in already, you should force yourself to do so anyway. Sometimes it's necessary to restart the browser and DLM. I've used both Chrome and Firefox; they both do weird things, but I'm currently getting everything to work in Firefox. But forcing myself to re-login will solve the problems most of the time (especially if I restart the browser).
The 6x download manager are much better about restarting downloads during interruptions. When 4 failed, I often had no record of having done so, and the album page did not show a "retry" option. The support staff usually gave me credits, but still it was enough of a pain that I said, ditch the 4 download manager.
Amazon download manager is absolutely crazy, I agree. And I should add that I signed up for their locker service (not their streaming service), so my account is even more complicated.
I bought one of those BIG BOX classical music sets for 99 cents. And none of it downloaded. I've tried over and over. This is not the first album I've had this happen to. Usually I can get it to work using whatever the desktop app is called ... eventually, but this is the first album it has never even started.
Was sorry to see Amazon discontinued their problem-free "classic" downloader, as their app is still useless. You can DL album zips directly in browser, anyway.
I have few problems with DLM 5.0.3...Can probably find the installer software if you want to try it, Greg. I agree with the advice to log in first, also to make sure the DLM is open before trying to purchase.
I agree about manually logging in - even if I think I am properly logged in at emusic I will log out and manually log in again before downloading. Reflex based on past trauma.
I just realised I haven't downloaded anything from emusic for months, and when it tries to renew some time in november it'll fail because my CC expired. I don't really plan to solve that given I haven't been using it.
Also, I'm moving country next month, so have more on my mind right now
Oh, what do you people do if you have a few hundred CDs to get rid of? I'm tired of lugging them around for no purpose, and screw carrying them half way around the world.
I've now used DL 6 - seems to have solved my problem, for now at least! Thanks for the input. I've not downloaded from Amazon for a while, as Google Play prices are generally less here by at least £1 an album for a normal priced album, so I have not encountered those issues yet.
@eythian - " what do you people do if you have a few hundred CDs to get rid of?" If they are not particularly rare and obscure, I would give them to a local charity store. My local CD/Record shop is not interested in most common pop music, so he will not buy most of what I would give away.
BTW, thanks for the emusicj DLM, I've been using that for years and have never had a problem!
A couple of years ago I thought I'd sell some CDs via an app on my iPhone. With one exception they were only prepared to pay me between 25p and 35p per CD (the exception was a Cream Greatest Hits compilation where I'd have got around £2) I decided that I would donate then to a charity shop, as they would clearly make more than the £6 or £7 I'd get for over twenty CDs.
If you itemize (in the US), donation is totally the way to go. I'd need to check itsdeductible.com, but I think you can claim a "thrift shop value" of $3 or $4 per CD.
I actually tried to sell some CDs, but I quickly realized that it's not worth it except for very hard to find items.
I donate mine to the library which typically will sell them at library book sales. It's ironic, because most of the CDs I donate (most are high quality) are CDs that the library itself doesn't have in its collection.
I buy lots of old CDs (online and locally) and I've found that most of them play and rip almost perfectly. A place down the street sells some "Can't Sell" CDs for less than a dollar.... Sure, there's the usual crap in there, but there's also a lot of rare and interesting CDs there;
(Btw, I just found some superb gigantic albums for cut-rate price:
I'll second the suggestion to use eMusicJ. If I ever rejoin eMu I'm definitely gonna use that program in lieu of whatever downloader eMu might be offering.
This might belong better elsewhere, but I learned that the Amazon music app won't play music once your music library goes past so many songs. It just becomes an uploader, which is weird. It won't even download tracks. You have to manually download music one track at a time. I wish I was making this up!
I have about two or three A4 printer paper boxes worth (although I've just been sorting stuff and more small stacks keep getting discovered), they're mildly obscure but nothing to write home about. The library or charity shop idea is a good one. I don't particularly feel the need to sell them if it's a hassle to sort, but would prefer they go somewhere where someone will get use out them. Ideally I'd just like to rock up and give them the boxes.
Oh, I did forget that there's a second-hand music shop not too far from me. I might have to phone them up tomorrow and see if they do that. If they even gave me $0.50 each, it'd be a bit more pocket money.
Cheers for the ideas, though I doubt I'll use them to build a chair
40K is the limit for the desktop player, the only way to download now is the desktop app. Fist it was unlimited, then it was 250K, now 40K. I call Swindleeee!
/Edit: the web based player is much better than it was a few months ago, so I suppose I should not complain too much about Amazon storing 95K songs on their servers.
"EMusic, a pioneering digital music store that has been adrift in recent years, has been acquired by TriPlay, a cloud computing company that lets people link their media collections across a range of devices.
TriPlay, whose music service is called MyMusicCloud, bought eMusic for an undisclosed sum in a mixture of cash and stock, the company said."
At the very least, this finally appears to provide the cloud/locker thing they were talking about however long ago...
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I hope this sale won't tempt me back out of my hold, I have so much new music. But the flesh may be weak.
Craig
Donkey balls would be preferable to the Amazon downloader.
http://www.kallisti.net.nz/EMusicJ/HomePage
it even got an update earlier this year.
I just realised I haven't downloaded anything from emusic for months, and when it tries to renew some time in november it'll fail because my CC expired. I don't really plan to solve that given I haven't been using it.
Also, I'm moving country next month, so have more on my mind right now
Oh, what do you people do if you have a few hundred CDs to get rid of? I'm tired of lugging them around for no purpose, and screw carrying them half way around the world.
A couple of years ago I thought I'd sell some CDs via an app on my iPhone. With one exception they were only prepared to pay me between 25p and 35p per CD (the exception was a Cream Greatest Hits compilation where I'd have got around £2) I decided that I would donate then to a charity shop, as they would clearly make more than the £6 or £7 I'd get for over twenty CDs.
Oh, I did forget that there's a second-hand music shop not too far from me. I might have to phone them up tomorrow and see if they do that. If they even gave me $0.50 each, it'd be a bit more pocket money.
Cheers for the ideas, though I doubt I'll use them to build a chair
TriPlay, whose music service is called MyMusicCloud, bought eMusic for an undisclosed sum in a mixture of cash and stock, the company said."