Stop being a victim and take control of your music
OK eighteen hours of whining ought to be enough for anybody.
Come on where are the angles?
Emusers is the greatest collection of music thieves ever assembled on the planet. I mean come on, the way we descended on the rotting carcass of Amie Street in its final days like a plague of locust was simply a thing of beauty. So shake it off and get in the ring.
I refresh on October 22, should I use up my DLs before the conversion or is there an angle to be played?
Come on where are the angles?
Emusers is the greatest collection of music thieves ever assembled on the planet. I mean come on, the way we descended on the rotting carcass of Amie Street in its final days like a plague of locust was simply a thing of beauty. So shake it off and get in the ring.
I refresh on October 22, should I use up my DLs before the conversion or is there an angle to be played?
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Or how about this: they're switching to a "currency" model, but if you have credits still in your account, they may count as credits rather than currency, and allow you to buy $.89 cent tracks for 1 credit, or $8.99 albums for 12 credits. There may be something in the overlap worth grabbing onto.
On the other hand, you may want to buy things now that might have a tendency to raise in price when the change comes.
The thing about all the angles though is that for the most part, you're talking about saving pennies. It's lost the excitement factor.
Oh, and I think in respect to frogkopf's status at amie street, we should be referred to as a plague of (perhaps slowly boiled) frogs.
My greatest fear is that all labels will consider their catalogs "popular", giving all tracks at 89 cents.
Nope, they're going to be converted at a rate of 0.50.
At the moment, I'm betting that little or nothing in the new drop is going to be priced at 0.49. At iTunes, 0.69 is the "discount" price point.
Box sets: they wouldn't make that mistake again, would they?
Boiled frog, mmm.
eMusic does currently state in their faq that most of the current catalog will be priced at $0.49, but 1) who knows if that's true, and 2) that doesn't address their plans for current album-only tracks (which has been completely unaddressed so far, right?)
I'm feeling that I want to use up some of my booster pack credits on lower track number jazz releases that are not album priced (some of the Fantasy labels, for instance). I just don't trust that they won't get kicked up in price somehow later, and of course noting those long tracks to be hunted down on Guvera later.
The Verve label is exciting to some extent, but I hit a lot of those last Xmas sale at 7digital. A lot being about 25 or 30 when they were $2.
r.e. box sets - they didn't commit that error at the last drop so much. How are we going to find them with the new releases browse so thoroughly screwed up? Individual title hunts will be in order - research ahead of time.
Well there's the angle right there - I'm only paying $.4158 per track and they'll be worth $.50 - a savings of $.0842 per track - a wopping $4.21 for the month!
Regarding upcoming opportunities at eMu. Think about it. They're reworking their entire payment process. At the same time they're "adding more than 250,000 tracks from Universal Music Group the single largest addition ever". Based on any number of past drops and the general technical inabilities of eMu to roll out any changes of any great degree without some f*ckup or another, there definitely will be something to 'watch' come November.
What kind of deals one can only speculate. I can't believe that every single drop they've had to date has resulted in mis-priced box-sets. And this inability to correctly price box-sets when first being made available on a digital download site isn't apparently limited to eMu either (I'm thinking of July 2008 and Rhapsody and whenever Sony arrived at AmieStreet).
While I'll use my very last eMu downloads prior to the November debut of the new and improved eMu I'll keep an eye out for any bargains that might be had. If there is anything compelling I'll simply create a brand new account to take advantage of the deal(s) and then cancel that account once the dust has settled and start plumbing the depths of Limewire, Bandcamp, Mangnatune and such.
I'll miss eMu. I was still under my annual plan when Sony hit last year so that hadn't effected me. The timing of this change is truly fortuitous for me. I am thankful that eMu has rolled out the information that they have well ahead of time (and before I made what would seem to be a mistake in purchasing a new annual subscription from them when my current sub expires in Nov). This new world order that is being put in place for eMu has no value for me.
That's freedom.
How do you methodically find those complete my album freebies.
I stumbled across one or two but never was able to consistently find them
Eh, methodically....not really, unfortunately. I fell across this morning's by accident, but because it was a Rounder that went to album pricing when IODA did I'm going to take a closer look at those. I'm going to scan my eMusic master playlist also and see if any bells go off. Or you could go through your Download History line by line......ugh. Anybody else?
by going through my collection download listing
Just in case Santa drops something nice.....
Meaning I have started researching and compiling a list of potential boxes just in case there arise initial screw-ups to capitol-ize upon next month, although I am not really hopeful on that score. I don't know if it's wise to publish any of this in advance potentially tipping off the opposition. What say you?
In case you want to look on your own I find Deluxe Edition a very helpful search phrase over at Amazon.
So a list may actually help them decide what to accidentally on purpose forget to charge full price for.