Under the old system I get 2 and a half albums per month
Under the new system I get 2 and a half albums per month
But psychologically when I try to rationalize the monthly expense I have a hard time justifying the whole subscription thing instead of just going to Amazon and buying whatever I want whenever I want it.
The psychoanalytics of the whole experience are screwed
i agree with you about the psychoanalytics of it, but the prices are v. good,(n.1) and i'll get used to a currency system.
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(n.1) i think i said here and on the emusic boards that i assumed emusic was moving into the lala price-point ($7.50/disc). but these new prices are much better than that.
An album I picked up as a "new release" (Gigi Gryce) is already not available.
Looking at some past dls, not as bad as I feared, but nothing that would keep me from jumping over to The Wire.
I'm gonna check out some Impulse and ECM just for shits and giggles, but whatever the view, it won't keep me around. I didn't join up with emu to be downloading music from three decades ago.
@Doofy - haha. I have the original version, which is better than the deluxe version. Wow. U2 on eMusic. Never thought I'd see the day. Back IN the day when I was a member I would have been delighted, but now I'm apathetic. Actually - I guess I can rustle up enough ire to say an editor's pick label is glaringly missing from Achtung Baby and I have no idea what they did with the release dates.
@ Nanker - your comment about a "quick squizz on the phone" was mildly revolting. For a moment. Until I figured out you were speaking a different language.
But then, y'all think an RV is a caravan. winky
Actually - I guess I can rustle up enough ire to say an editor's pick label is glaringly missing from Achtung Baby
i'm sure they'll get around to giving it an editor's-pick designation. i think i've seen some of the writers mention it as a great album (and some big publication just named it as the best rock album of the past 25 years). i think it's overrated (half really good, half meandering), but whatevs.
Heresy! Crime! Possession of underplayed Acthung Baby!
Hey, mommio, I finally got to listen to Slice - one of the songs made me cry - and I read FFF's webpage after you talked about the interview you heard. Listened to part of the The Benjy Davis Project you rec'd before the ipod battery died.
Oh, And I listened to an Elvis Costello album in the right order, all the way through, too.
Now, did I get this right? No redownloading of tracks, and it was not mentioned in any email nor posted on the emu boards until a subscriber asked about it?
That is a dirty trick.
I always expected them to dump the redownload policy, my WTF was Cathy saying "our redownload policy hasn't changed." Um, yes dearie it really really has.
My first post on this forum! What's happening? Being in England I am in a different time zone, so when I check through the Emusic discussion board to see comments overnight, and today to check to see if I have the right monetary credit. I was reading through one of the threads - just read about the repeat download changes, then emusic goes off with a message that changes are being made and it wil lbe away for a while. Every other commercial company I know warns users in advance when the service is not available - it just shows what emusic thinks of its customers that this is not their practice. Or perhaps I am being naive. They are doing in the middle of the night when everyone is asleep, of course. But we are not all in North American time zones. Yet another frustration when I (and many others) take all the pain for no gains.I just wonder whether emusic really does want to be a global player in the download market or not. I am still convinced emusic is being fattened ready for a sale....
Welcome, greg! Do we know you by another name from over there?
I don't usually read the emusic boards anymore but the stuff about the redownloads surprised me. Well - like Nanker said, it was bound to happen sooner or later - but good grief, you'd think there would be an acknowledgement. They need to let people know. And not just by having it discovered by each member, one at a time.
Cathy's USB post is hilarious.
That thread has some of the most spitting-mad comments I've seen since the sony drop.
Thanks Katrina - I suspect I won't be using it much more now I have discovered this discussion board. Over there I used my full name so greg.cracknell. When I originally joined emusic I just used a variation of my work log-in, not really appreciating that it would be used on, eg, discussion boards. No problem anyway. I have found out their latest change - now when you add to a discussion board thread, you get an email when the next person adds to the discussion. I'm not sure that it will add anything for me!
That's been eMusic's MO for a long time. No real information for the customer until after the fact. I still remember the dozens of unanswered questions about the Sony drop - especially "When will it happen?". The day before they still claimed they didn't know. I was shocked that they actually gave us a date this time. But of course they screwed that up by announcing a postponement and then slipping in the new day when no one was looking.
But of course they screwed that up by announcing a postponement and then slipping in the new day when no one was looking.
Although the whole conversion took place conspicuously in the middle of the day, perhaps when they hoped many people would be at work--perhaps before they could fully object to the departure of the little three indies by canceling. At some point they must have seen the negative press and decided to just go for the relaunch so that news of UMG's arrival might be more prominent (particularly for non-subscribers coming to the homepage for the first time.)
It seems to me Occam suggests they postponed because they didn't manage to be ready by the intended date, and then launched as soon as they felt they were. I think run-of-the-mill unreadiness, rather than the iTunes Beatles date, caused the postponement. They probably didn't want to suffer the indie pullout without having the new stuff, so definitely those happened at the same time, but I don't think they would've delayed more than they technically had to.
Actually, I'm starting to think that the Big Three Pullout was behind the delay. Once the switchover was completed, they would have to be removed. So they were probably hoping for a breakthrough in negotiations so that people wouldn't notice the gaps in the charts right after.
As much as the made a big deal about them not being around as of the 18th, it wasn't until the midday metamorphosis that they disappeared. Of course that once again paints the CEO in crappy light since that means without all of the negative press he may never have made that magical post in which he casually mentioned that changes would go live the next day.
Haha, this is pretty funny. Someone on the other boards linked to the top 100 Best albums on eMu thing they did last year or so. 7 out of the top 10 and 32 total are gone. The only albums to get more than 10000 point are both gone.
Katrina, I need to pull Achtung, Baby out again. It might sound better on my U2 iPod. I have several U2 albums, and I have probably listened to Rattle & Hum the most, but that has more to do with what was happening in my life at the time it was released than with the merit of the album. And you actually intended to listen to Elvis Costello all the way through? Wow!
Greg, I think I have seen you on the eMu board. I don't read it as often as I used to, and I no longer skim through every thread. It really has changed so much in the last year and a half. A few posts that are like the old days slip through.
As for the redownloads, the album I was downloading yesterday (Echos hypnotiques (From the Vaults of Albarika Store 1969-1979, Vol. 2) by Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de) - great rec, guys!) was stopped when the site went down, but I was able to Resume All and complete it. It looks like everything downloaded just fine and it sounds good. At eMu's end, there is one of those red buttons on one track, indicating it didn't download properly, so I will redownload (their button says "retry") to see if there is any difference.
Rattle & Hum is probably #3 or 4 in my album order ranking of U2. I know lots of folks thought their best was The Joshua Tree, but that is one that hasn't gotten many plays from me. Except for "Bullet the Blue Sky".
I had War on vinyl, and that's the album that made me a U2 fan.
I find it interesting that when you browse the Freshly Ripped all those albums are dated 11/16.
There's a new poster over there thisplacesucks who can't find anything good. SSDD.
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you know what else did? the entire burning-spear catalog, basically at $4.50 a disc.
Under the new system I get 2 and a half albums per month
But psychologically when I try to rationalize the monthly expense I have a hard time justifying the whole subscription thing instead of just going to Amazon and buying whatever I want whenever I want it.
The psychoanalytics of the whole experience are screwed
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(n.1) i think i said here and on the emusic boards that i assumed emusic was moving into the lala price-point ($7.50/disc). but these new prices are much better than that.
Arthur Prysock - Verve Records
Cheap, too. $6.49 for 16 tracks.
the harder they come soundtrack is $5.85.
Eg: Gorecki's 3rd.
An album I picked up as a "new release" (Gigi Gryce) is already not available.
Looking at some past dls, not as bad as I feared, but nothing that would keep me from jumping over to The Wire.
I'm gonna check out some Impulse and ECM just for shits and giggles, but whatever the view, it won't keep me around. I didn't join up with emu to be downloading music from three decades ago.
@ Nanker - your comment about a "quick squizz on the phone" was mildly revolting. For a moment. Until I figured out you were speaking a different language.
But then, y'all think an RV is a caravan. winky
i'm sure they'll get around to giving it an editor's-pick designation. i think i've seen some of the writers mention it as a great album (and some big publication just named it as the best rock album of the past 25 years). i think it's overrated (half really good, half meandering), but whatevs.
Hey, mommio, I finally got to listen to Slice - one of the songs made me cry - and I read FFF's webpage after you talked about the interview you heard. Listened to part of the The Benjy Davis Project you rec'd before the ipod battery died.
Oh, And I listened to an Elvis Costello album in the right order, all the way through, too.
That is a dirty trick.
I don't usually read the emusic boards anymore but the stuff about the redownloads surprised me. Well - like Nanker said, it was bound to happen sooner or later - but good grief, you'd think there would be an acknowledgement. They need to let people know. And not just by having it discovered by each member, one at a time.
Cathy's USB post is hilarious.
That thread has some of the most spitting-mad comments I've seen since the sony drop.
As much as the made a big deal about them not being around as of the 18th, it wasn't until the midday metamorphosis that they disappeared. Of course that once again paints the CEO in crappy light since that means without all of the negative press he may never have made that magical post in which he casually mentioned that changes would go live the next day.
Greg, I think I have seen you on the eMu board. I don't read it as often as I used to, and I no longer skim through every thread. It really has changed so much in the last year and a half. A few posts that are like the old days slip through.
As for the redownloads, the album I was downloading yesterday (Echos hypnotiques (From the Vaults of Albarika Store 1969-1979, Vol. 2) by Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de) - great rec, guys!) was stopped when the site went down, but I was able to Resume All and complete it. It looks like everything downloaded just fine and it sounds good. At eMu's end, there is one of those red buttons on one track, indicating it didn't download properly, so I will redownload (their button says "retry") to see if there is any difference.
I had War on vinyl, and that's the album that made me a U2 fan.
There's a new poster over there thisplacesucks who can't find anything good. SSDD.
oh man, i hate rattle & hum with enough hatred to ignite a dead star.