Best 'All You Can Eat' Music Service ?

[Montano]

I'm looking for something that has a monthly fee with unlimited downloads. I want to be able to put music on an ipod as well as a generic mp3 player. I would like a wide range of music as well as good song quality. I've heard emusic.com has a somewhat limited music selection.

:beer:

 

[nakedfrog]

Rhapsody?
Wait, I think they have DRM... I don't know that what you're looking for exists.

 

[jemcam]

I've never used it, but doesn't MS have that kind of thing for the Zune? I know you pay a monthly fee, but I'm not sure about the DRM part.

 

[acheron]

I'm pretty sure any DRM-free service is charge per-song. Something like Rhapsody that is unlimited per month has DRM on it.

 

[Crono]

I know of unlimited playing where you essentially rent the music, and pay per song to own, but I don't know of any service that allows unlimited downloading of songs to keep. Zune Pass is rental with 10 "download-to-keep" downloads per month. They are the best service, though, in my opinion.

 

[lxskllr]

Emusic's great, but not unlimited. You also aren't going to find all the major label artists. No loss though.... The major label stuff's crap. For free, check out Jamendo. There's a lot of good stuff here, but you have to search. That's part of the fun though... There's some real gems there.

 

[jlee]

Originally posted by: Crono
I know of unlimited playing where you essentially rent the music, and pay per song to own, but I don't know of any service that allows unlimited downloading of songs to keep. Zune Pass is rental with 10 "download-to-keep" downloads per month. They are the best service, though, in my opinion.

Zunepass is what I was going to suggest as well..I just bought a Zune and am tempted to try it out. Free 14-day trial!

 

[Scouzer]

Originally posted by: Montano
I'm looking for something that has a monthly fee with unlimited downloads. I want to be able to put music on an ipod as well as a generic mp3 player. I would like a wide range of music as well as good song quality. I've heard emusic.com has a somewhat limited music selection.

:beer:

it doesn't exist

 

[Fritzo]

I've been digging Amazon lately. DRM free---just download the damn files and play them where ever you want.

 

[Montano]

Looks like emusic is the closest thing, with a limit of 40 downloads/month. So 40 songs @ Amazon would cost roughly $32/month. emusic charges around $11.

 

[oogabooga]

Originally posted by: Scouzer

Originally posted by: Montano
I'm looking for something that has a monthly fee with unlimited downloads. I want to be able to put music on an ipod as well as a generic mp3 player. I would like a wide range of music as well as good song quality. I've heard emusic.com has a somewhat limited music selection.

:beer:

it doesn't exist

Yup. I believe all unlimited plans are currently rental systems where once you are no longer a subscriber it no longer plays on your computer. The DRM is there to ensure that. (otherwise we'd all buy one month every year or whatever and for 15 bucks download thousands upon thousands of tracks we might listen too)

Any other service where you keep the music (DRM Free) I believe you're paying per song, it's just a question of the rate you pay.

 

[Miramonti]

Unlimited, drm free, legitimate,...LOL!

 

[Brainonska511]

Unlimited, DRM-free would be a retarded business-model. Everyone would sign up for a month, download everything they could, and subsequently cancel while keeping all the DRM free music.

 

[jpeyton]

Amazon is DRM free, pay-per-song.

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: Brainonska511
Unlimited, DRM-free would be a retarded business-model. Everyone would sign up for a month, download everything they could, and subsequently cancel while keeping all the DRM free music.

So? If a bunch of people were signing up to do that it'd be a profitable business.

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: gorcorps

Originally posted by: Brainonska511
Unlimited, DRM-free would be a retarded business-model. Everyone would sign up for a month, download everything they could, and subsequently cancel while keeping all the DRM free music.

So? If a bunch of people were signing up to do that it'd be a profitable business.

So you think a company could deliver unlimited drm-less music for a monthly fee AND pay the royalities to the music houses for the drm-less music delivery, and still turn a profit?

Wow, wish I thought of that...

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: gorcorps

Originally posted by: Brainonska511
Unlimited, DRM-free would be a retarded business-model. Everyone would sign up for a month, download everything they could, and subsequently cancel while keeping all the DRM free music.

So? If a bunch of people were signing up to do that it'd be a profitable business.

No it isn't. People would just pay for one month, download everything they wanted, and then cancel the service. There would be no reason to go back month to month, as you'd still have the music after you stopped paying.

 

[Baked]

Zune Pass! You can d/l as many songs to your Zune player as capacity allows and you get to download 1 free album a month that's DRM free.