strategies for exodus
prolly not a bad idea to start backing up your emusic library. re-dl'ing the whole thing is a pain but might be the most direct.
sfl will probably be a pointless exercise moving forward.
sfl will probably be a pointless exercise moving forward.
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Maybe a good thing in a way, since I've been acquiring music at such a pace, I have not had nearly enough time to listen to most of it. I downloaded about 400 ablums worth of Chandos/BIS during the Circuit City cheap download card melee last year, so I have enough just in classical alone to last me several years.
I'll probably quit 2 of the 3 memberships I have, and use the one for a few months to see if it's worth sticking around.
Swindleee etc etc
woof.
Agree wholeheartedly with everything said so far.
It just feels like...
...betrayal....
or something equally melodramatic and stupid.
Somehow even more than all the previous shit they've pulled.
My annual plan finishes in December and unless something dramatic happens I can't see myself renewing.
Even if they don't shaft us 'Grandfathers' in the UK as they have done in the US - like that's EVER going to happen!
I'll maybe look into keeping the minimal plan going, just so I can keep the option of dipping in and out with boosters now and then.
But honestly, I think I'd feel cleaner just walking away.
Maybe do the old 'sign-up, get some freebies, then quit' thing a few times until I run out of credit cards to play with.
Just out of spite.
To appropriate a line from one of my recent TV 'guilty pleasures', Greek...
Douche move, eMusic.
Douche move.
And to add to today's black mood, my local shop has finally run out of old supplies of Stella Artois, so I'm now drinking the new 'improved' weaker version for the same price...
...sigh...
we'll need more than "what done us wrong" to keep the chins up - i imagine xtrev can allocate a bit of space for a continuation and i believe timmason would join us in time. thoughts?
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Amie St. is great if you can get the good deals. There are 50% off sales now and then. That's when I perk up and put some more money in my account. Being on the West Coast makes it difficult to get the Tuesday morning new releases for free or for pennies, but there are still some very good deals there.
I'll also look into what Lala has to offer. Currently the new Dirty Projectors is $3.99 through Lala.
I'm considering trying Napster or Rhapsody. Does anyone have a strong feeling about one or the other? I definitely want a plan that not only allows me to stream, but to store the music on my iPod while I'm a subscriber.
Haven't heard of jamendo.com.
Amazon has daily good deals. I've picked up B.B. King, Bernstein conducting Gershwin, and others for only $1.99 an album.
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I've had a Napster account in the past. their software really annoys me, but perhaps it's changed in the several years since I deleted it from my PC. It is now also compatible with iPods, and wasn't back then.
Rhapsody, I've never used their DL software, just purchased files that came in a zip. Doesn't look like Rhapsody to Go works with iPods.
OK, I hope you know that was a joke about the whiny. You put a lot of time into it all, and eMu didn't even email you about the changes.
sigh.
Bklynd is right, it's dangerous to invest too much time into one site. See, I've already gone through that, so I know why you deleted your stuff and I know it wasn't petty. I'm glad you feel free from it. So many sites of 'mine' went down in the dot-com crash, I've never looked at the internet the same.
I just double-checked, and this is what I see:
"Napster To Go ($14.95 a month) - 7-Day Free Trial (Not iPod® compatible & PC ONLY software required) Access to unlimited on-demand streaming plus transfer all you want to a compatible device or mobile phone."
Most of them are WMA files and you need a compatible player, i.e., one that is certified with the PlaysForSure technology. Zunes are even more restricted, and only works with Microsoft's own Zunepass site.
The only to go service that would work on an iPod would be one that uses Apple's own DRM. I don't know if such a service exists.
a good way to determine "your need to back-up": go thru the "the's" and download them all - since bandnames cut across the alphabet you can get a decent perspective on how much of your history is zeroed out. about 1/3 of mine was obsolete - fortunately i have about 5 major back-up events to restore what isn't there now.
if you're "0" dl's exceed 10%, backup.
I really should back up my emu DL's, as oer the years some have gone or been upgraded.
My plan is good until next March, so I will have plenty of time to see what happens with the Sony and hopefully more indie labels come (back) to emusic.
This album-only crap is the last nail in the coffin. If I MUST have one of those one-hit wonder songs, I sure as hell won't buy it from eMu; I'll get it from Amazon, like any other sane person.
Actually if it's a one-hit wonder, my local library has it.
Anyway.
if you're "0" dl's exceed 10%, backup.
Can you please explain how you came to this reasoning? I have my stuff backed up already. Why would I want to take the time to go through My Downloads and get everything again?
As you've said, it's taking forever since there isn't a DL album button. And that stupid DL manager loses tracks if I click too fast.
Why are you DLing everything again, if you have backups?
I can't say for sure that I'll be exited as soon as my account is up for renewal in February, because there's still a lot time for them to fix things. But I seriously doubt I'll be around at all after then.
your case may be alot more straightforward than mine...
higher prices: many shapes and many sizes, you'll be happy!
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the magic wanderer
Agreed. I was going to stick around for the boosters in August, but with the "album-only" crap, I'm gone as of today. (With my last 18 "credits," I bought the Spoon EP, some tracks from a Belle & Sebastian EP, and Sly & the Family Stone's greatest hits.)
Just askin'.
Woof!
Rhapsody is changing stuff, too. I got an email - if anythign has been download using hteir weird DL mgr, the email said to back it up becuase online licensing is oging away. Or something. I never used their DL software - I just got the zip.
now, this emusic business...i recently took two months off. the intent was to come back and work my way through the holiday season as each year i make a christmas mix to pass out to friends and family...mia makes something 1000x cooler, but i contribute how i can.
returning to this gibberish...emusic is so far removed from what its roots are/were i'd be lying to myself if i just kept plugging along under the false belief. i don't want to have to research np's to actually dl them...that process is the exact opposite of how i dig the music experience.
why? because researching music is usually "i heard it on the radio"...and radio has always been the big labels' pet. 18 months into subscribing to sirius xm there's a huge swing back to "cycling" radio ready hits...big labels' radio ready hits. i can't stand to be spoon-fed.
so, i have 30 np's to kill b4 10/25. then another 30 appear which i'll kill asap. then i'm done.
and i see no need to reconnect.