Napster, what if it goes under?

[Kristi2k]

Will I lose all of my songs if I ever format?

 

[thirtythree]

you could back them up...

 

[Amorphus]

That's sort of the concept.

"Will I lose my CDs if I throw everything in my house into the trash?"
"Well, what about taking the CDs out of the house first?"
"Hey yeah!"

 

[Howard]

Let me see.

Formatting clears the contents of your hard drive.

if (songs.onHardDrive() == true)
System.out.println("You are stupid.");

 

[Kristi2k]

I guess none of you understand how Napster works... You download the song, and if you format / reinstall and copy the songs (WMA) over from a backup, you can't play them unless you REdownload them...

 

[Double Trouble]

... and yes, you have stumbled on one of the many many reasons why the "buy songs online" services suck and I can't for the life of me figure out why anyone would do it.

For starters, all the services have stupid DRM crap built in. Why the heck would you pay for something that's more restrictive to use when you can get the same thing for free with no restrictions?

Then there's services like Napster where if you stop paying (or Napster goes under), you can't listen to your music anymore --- even though you've already paid for it. Then of course you have the services that put stuff into some crappy format so you can't listen to it on your MP3 player or in your car -- you have to play it using their crappy codec..... etc etc etc.

I'd gladly buy the songs if they were made available in (good quality) MP3 or other non-drm format. Until then, I'll just keep getting songs for free.

 

[Kristi2k]

I could burn them to a CD and they play fine in a CD player, I guess I'll have to back them up that way, just incase.

 

[episodic]

Just buy music used, rip it, sell it, buy more used music . . . supports local music stores. . .

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: tagej
... and yes, you have stumbled on one of the many many reasons why the "buy songs online" services suck and I can't for the life of me figure out why anyone would do it.

For starters, all the services have stupid DRM crap built in. Why the heck would you pay for something that's more restrictive to use when you can get the same thing for free with no restrictions?

Then there's services like Napster where if you stop paying (or Napster goes under), you can't listen to your music anymore --- even though you've already paid for it. Then of course you have the services that put stuff into some crappy format so you can't listen to it on your MP3 player or in your car -- you have to play it using their crappy codec..... etc etc etc.

I'd gladly buy the songs if they were made available in (good quality) MP3 or other non-drm format. Until then, I'll just keep getting songs for free.

All of MP3 doesnt have any of the DRM craoyou can do whatever you want with them, and they are cheap to DL