eMu "Sneak Preview"

cafreema

Got this email at 12:49 a.m. last night:

Sneak Preview!

Coming this month! Thousands of artists and more than 250,000 tracks are about to drop, right here, on eMusic. Check out the preview we’ve put together, including popular favorites, classic artists and editors’ picks, all available very soon.

If you missed our earlier email announcing the upcoming changes to the way music will be priced and the details of your new eMusic Preferred Plan, please READ THE ANNOUNCEMENT!

It also has a link to the Sneak Preview.

They'll be lucky to have this up and running by December.

Craig

thomnottom

Hi Everyone:
We can now confirm that, barring any unforeseen technical issues, we will launch new content from UMG and the new pricing system on Tuesday, November 16. We also expect to announce exciting new content additions around that time. Beginning on the 16th you’ll see a significant number of UMG titles, though this won’t be the full catalog addition – we’re ingesting it as fast as we can get it and more titles will be coming over in the next week. We appreciate your patience during this interim period and will soon provide additional details on the new artists you can expect to see on the site.

Thanks,
Cathy
eMusic

From the message boards. I'm actually pretty shocked that they gave a date.

cafreema

Fantastic. I can use all my refresh credits for Thursday before the conversion.

I still think they'll be lucky to have it running by December.

Craig

Doofy

Aw @#$!, my refresh date is 11/18. Come on, unforeseen complications! As Dilbert's boss once said, "Will there be any unexpected problems?"

The "preview" tells me nothing about what I want to know, which is the pricing on the albums in my S4L and on the UMG back catalog.

choiceweb0pen0

get ready to spot the pricing errors!

mommio

I refresh on the 14th - big 24 credits, plus 35 from a booster I bought when they were on sale. Booster expires Nov. 24. Possibility of pricing errors or not - I think I need to make a library run and take advantage of their wireless. I may miss out on some bargains, but I would rather use these up before the drop. If anything looks like something I just have to have right now, I can always buy another booster. However, I'm not expecting that to happen. My tastes lately have run almost completely to classical, and there is so much on my SFL that I will never get it all.

choiceweb0pen0

I refresh on the 18th or so. I keep adding stuff to my SFL, especially electronic and obscurer albums that I know I won't find many other places like the Teebs's Arbor that was just reviewed on Pitchfork today and emu has (though for 18 credits, doh). I'm on an annual plan until next March, so should have a good idea of what the new system does and doesn't do for me. I'm with Doofy, I would like to know not how many U2 albums will be on eMu, but what I actually want will cost.

The public library is a great place to find things that might be on eMu or eleswhere on online, but may not seem worth plunking down money for. Just found Mudcrutch this morning at my nearest branch.