Anyone use BMG Music Service?

[shuttleboi]

Does anyone use BMG Music Service? It has about 75% of the kindo of music I like, and I've used it to build a large CD collection, which I've ripped to 384kbps MP3s. It's even cheaper than the $0.99/song prices at the iTunes store. Occasionally they will have a $2.99/CD (or even $1.99/CD) sale. If you include their $2.50/CD shipping and handling charge, that comes out to $2.99+$2.50=$5.49/CD, which for a 10-song CD is $0.55/song.

 

[mzkhadir]

I think BMG has another site called it all music or something or rather.

 

[laurenlex]

I used them for cassettes in the 80's. I remember they were slow to ship.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: mzkhadir
I think BMG has another site called it all music or something or rather.

Yourmusic.com

I swore by them until they bumped prices up by a dollar for the new year. Put all the ****** in my queue I really wanted into my cart, bought it, and quit

 

[SludgeFactory]

Make use of as many of the free offers as you can to drive your average cost down toward the "free" disc price of $2.79 S&H. It's easy to average less than $4.00 a CD. I always wait until I have a B1G3 or B1G4 code to do the fulfillment purchase. Sign yourself up again as a "friend" and get 5 more freebies that way. Rinse and repeat.

Selection is ok, obviously not like Itunes, but you can build up a decent mainstream collection and fill in from there.

 

[Sheep]

384kbps MP3? That's a new one to me--I've never seen a ripping program that goes over 320kbps.

LaLa.com's my source for "new" music.

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: Sheep
384kbps MP3? That's a new one to me--I've never seen a ripping program that goes over 320kbps.

LaLa.com's my source for "new" music.

According to the Wiki article on MP3s, LAME can encode up to 620kbps for MP3s, but few decoders support anything over 320kbps. MP3 decoders must support up to 320kbps, and 620kbps is compliant with the MP3 standard, but few decoders support over 320.

 

[shuttleboi]

Originally posted by: Sheep
384kbps MP3? That's a new one to me--I've never seen a ripping program that goes over 320kbps.

LaLa.com's my source for "new" music.

Sorry, I meant 320 kbps.

 

[shuttleboi]

Originally posted by: SludgeFactory
Make use of as many of the free offers as you can to drive your average cost down toward the "free" disc price of $2.79 S&H. It's easy to average less than $4.00 a CD. I always wait until I have a B1G3 or B1G4 code to do the fulfillment purchase. Sign yourself up again as a "friend" and get 5 more freebies that way. Rinse and repeat.

What are these B1G3/B1G4 codes?

The best deal I've found is buy one (at $18.98 or so), get two free, then buy unlimited at $1.99/CD.

 

[eplebnista]

Was a member for a few years in early/mid-nineties(along with Columbia House). Quit when my taste in music went to obscure female-driven rock/pop and they didn't carry anything I was that interested in.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: shuttleboi
Does anyone use BMG Music Service? It has about 75% of the kindo of music I like, and I've used it to build a large CD collection, which I've ripped to 384kbps MP3s. It's even cheaper than the $0.99/song prices at the iTunes store. Occasionally they will have a $2.99/CD (or even $1.99/CD) sale. If you include their $2.50/CD shipping and handling charge, that comes out to $2.99+$2.50=$5.49/CD, which for a 10-song CD is $0.55/song.

You can't compare song prices of a CD vs any ala carte song service like iTunes. You are forced to buy all songs on each CD with BMG and most of today's CD's are the headliner and 9 songs of filler. There are a few gems out there with 90% of the songs being good, but too many are just 1 and 2 hit wonders now.