idiotprogrammer
I'll just mention two links:
An annotated list of my recent emusic purchases and my favorite 10 free albums from the Jamendo pile of music.
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NPR also has a downloadable zip of 100 tracks by SXSW artists http://www.npr.org/2016/03/01/468352361/the-austin-100-a-sxsw-2016-mix
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Update: I misread the emusic support email -- they said that my account would be suspended until March 17 -- not Feb 17. I guess I can live without them for an extra month.
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Because of site problems, my membership has been suspended for 3 weeks. Every time I try to activate it, emusic charges me for membership but keeps it in the suspended state! After a few emails with tech support, my understanding is that as of Feb 1…
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I stick around for the double booster credit sales. The technical billing issues on music are ridiculous, but the indie deals are still good. Also, I find amazing that emusic's deals on albums are often significantly less than that on bandcamp for …
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A few questions: is emusic's behavior predictable enough that you can count on the "Please come back" credits?Also, I downgraded my membership to the emusic Lite (6.49 a month) which is NOT a publicly advertised rate. This has…It occurred to me that people on this thread might not know about the CMJ Mixtape downloads. Every month they offer about 15 new commercial tracks. It's gotten so that I've internalized the reminder to download these so I never forget anymore.Because of the frequency of booster sales, it makes sense to sign up for a normal membership. I downgraded to an emusic lite plan $6.49 a month. I notice that the lite plan doesn't seem to be one of the "official memberships" offered to new members,…I just found some superb gigantic albums for cut-rate price: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 o…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.…Wow, I was going to make some observations about the instrumentals set -- but I see that you just pretty much identified all the same warts I did. (I still haven't decided whether it's worth it though -- still listening on rdio).I might get i…I don't know how many have browsed through Jamendo (the French creative commons music site), but that stuff has a ton of great stuff (and a ton of bad stuff too obviously).A few years ago after listening to about 2500 free alb…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 disillusi…