MP3 site that was charging 79cents??

[FrugalGuy]

I saw this on a commerical, but I couldn't remember the site. It was advertising mp3 songs for 79 cents for the rest of us(referring to the ipod people who have this already) and it showed a guy with the that slim nomad player. Anybody know about this?

 

[KingNothing]

buymusic.com, but the songs are *from* 79 cents which means all the decent stuff is more and they suck for other reasons that I can't remember

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

It is buymusic.com

 

[TommyVercetti]

What's the difference between a properly licensed downloaded MP3, and just a regular pirated mp3?

 

[KingNothing]

One sounds better

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: TommyVercetti
What's the difference between a properly licensed downloaded MP3, and just a regular pirated mp3?

its legal

 

[UncleWai]

Originally posted by: KingNothing
One sounds better

doubt it. (assuming you think the buymusic.com is better)

or


good call. (assuming you think pirated is better)

 

[Rallispec]

Originally posted by: TommyVercetti
What's the difference between a properly licensed downloaded MP3, and just a regular pirated mp3?

you can do whatever you want with a regular pirated MP3...


the licensed ones limit how many times it can be burned, and what portable players it can be transferred too.... and you're not allowed to do anything to them, like convert them to regular mp3's to get around the DRM stuff or you void the license.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

I think if they made it $.50 per song, with any song and no limitations for the most part, I'd do it.

 

[KingNothing]

Ah yes, that reminds me why buymusic.com sucks! You don't buy MP3s from them, you license them, and then you "can't" do whatever you want with them. Of course you can burn them to CD and then rerip to no-DRM MP3, but...yeah.

 

[KingNothing]

Originally posted by: UncleWai

Originally posted by: KingNothing
One sounds better

doubt it. (assuming you think the buymusic.com is better)

or


good call. (assuming you think pirated is better)

nice edit

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: TommyVercetti
What's the difference between a properly licensed downloaded MP3, and just a regular pirated mp3?

What Buy(we ripped off Apple)Music is selling are Windows Media Audio files, which do tend to sound a bit better than MP3s at the same bitrate. However, as others have said, you never own the file(if you try to make an MP3 from it for example, you're breaking the agreement), and you are strictly limited to what you can do with it. While it's better than some of the earliest offerings, it's still more restrictive than what Apple offers.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Originally posted by: AgaBooga
I think if they made it $.50 per song, with any song and no limitations for the most part, I'd do it.

Yeah, that sounds reasonable. They have to have a large selection though. These things are a great step imo, and I haven't tried out Apple's yet so I can't comment on it, but they just don't have anything I want. If I could either pay $.50 per song, or $5 per CD and not have any sort of restrictions I would be buying all kinda sh!t.

 

[mosco]

Could they have ripped of apple any more? i thought i was watching an apple commercial until i noticed it wasn't an ipod.

And yes, some songs are .79 cents, some are .99 with some at 1.99 i think. CDs start at 7.99, most at 9.99, and some go over 10. Some songs allow you to burn a certain amount of times and some don't allow you to at all. Not very user friendly IMO.

 

[Lucky]

Originally posted by: KingNothing
Ah yes, that reminds me why buymusic.com sucks! You don't buy MP3s from them, you license them, and then you "can't" do whatever you want with them. Of course you can burn them to CD and then rerip to no-DRM MP3, but...yeah.

you dont "buy" software either, you buy a liscense to use it.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: AgaBooga
I think if they made it $.50 per song, with any song and no limitations for the most part, I'd do it.

I still wouldn't.... lol.

 

[mugs]

What is the mechanism they use to count the number of times you burn it? It seems to me that they'd need software compliance for this to be possible... So couldn't you just use other software? Like use Nero to burn it to a data CD so you always have a "fresh" backup that you can then use to burn it to more audio CDs? Not that I would go around pirating music that I bought, but if the limit is low I could run out of burns through just personal use.

This sounds great, I've been wanting a way to get just the music I want without pirating it... I listen to a lot of classic rock, so it would be very expensive to buy all of those CDs when I'd only want one or two songs off each.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: mugsywwiii
What is the mechanism they use to count the number of times you burn it? It seems to me that they'd need software compliance for this to be possible... So couldn't you just use other software? Like use Nero to burn it to a data CD so you always have a "fresh" backup that you can then use to burn it to more audio CDs? Not that I would go around pirating music that I bought, but if the limit is low I could run out of burns through just personal use.

This sounds great, I've been wanting a way to get just the music I want without pirating it... I listen to a lot of classic rock, so it would be very expensive to buy all of those CDs when I'd only want one or two songs off each.

You can only burn it in WMP, which uses the DRM info in the song to keep track of everything.