- Aug 20, 2000
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Listen.com: Burning for You
The record labels may be getting serious about offering alternatives to piracy online: Listen.com will roll out an upgrade to its Internet music service tomorrow that will allow subscribers to burn more than 75,000 songs to blank CDs for 99 cents apiece.
The songs will be provided in Windows Media Audio format, but Listen.com's software will convert them into regular CD tracks before burning them to disc. The resulting audio CDs can be played on any CD hardware -- or copied with any computer.
Tracks available for burning include the entire catalogue from such name-brand artists as Eminem and titles from thousands of other artists under contract to Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group, the two labels that granted CD-burning licenses to Listen.com last week.
All five top recording companies had previously licensed music to this San Francisco firm for streaming. The 99-cent song purchases will be available to customers of Listen.com's $9.95-a-month Rhapsody service, which lets users play titles from a 250,000-song library.
This revamped Rhapsody also will let subscribers access their personal play lists and listening libraries from any Internet-connected computer, not just the one they used to create their account.
That last bit was especially nice. No more having to set up a personal streaming MP3 server at home, just subscribe to download whatever songs you want anyway and get the added benefit of playing stuff from work/a friend's/whatever. What say ye, general public?
The record labels may be getting serious about offering alternatives to piracy online: Listen.com will roll out an upgrade to its Internet music service tomorrow that will allow subscribers to burn more than 75,000 songs to blank CDs for 99 cents apiece.
The songs will be provided in Windows Media Audio format, but Listen.com's software will convert them into regular CD tracks before burning them to disc. The resulting audio CDs can be played on any CD hardware -- or copied with any computer.
Tracks available for burning include the entire catalogue from such name-brand artists as Eminem and titles from thousands of other artists under contract to Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group, the two labels that granted CD-burning licenses to Listen.com last week.
All five top recording companies had previously licensed music to this San Francisco firm for streaming. The 99-cent song purchases will be available to customers of Listen.com's $9.95-a-month Rhapsody service, which lets users play titles from a 250,000-song library.
This revamped Rhapsody also will let subscribers access their personal play lists and listening libraries from any Internet-connected computer, not just the one they used to create their account.
That last bit was especially nice. No more having to set up a personal streaming MP3 server at home, just subscribe to download whatever songs you want anyway and get the added benefit of playing stuff from work/a friend's/whatever. What say ye, general public?
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