Another new (legit) music download site

[Richard S]

Interesting to see Buy.com enter the downloadable music game (http://buymusic.com). Works with Windows, no subscription, and can transfer to PPC. Thoughts? Anyone want to try and find their random favorites and see if they are available?

[Pat Logsdon]

Interesting to see what is and isn't available. I was able to find all of Marilyn Manson's albums (except the most popular: "Antichrist Superstar"), the most recent Nine Inch Nails album ("The Fragile"), but none of the other major ones, including the first, no Powerman 5000 at all, and all Radiohead but the newest. There's also a ton of Woody Guthrie, but no Arlo.

I also did a search for Bob Dylan, and the results were interesting. They had the most recent albums ("Love and Theft" and "Time out of Mind"), but the (arguably) best Dylan album ever, "Blood on the Tracks", had only one song available, "Idiot Wind", and that song can only be downloaded 3 times and transferred and burned 5 times. Odd, but better than nothing, I suppose...at least some of this stuff is coming out at the proper prices.

I think I'll probably wait to jump on the bandwagon when I get unlimited transfers and burns.

[GoldKey]

Yeah, it says you can burn to a CD, but

"If you want to transfer music to a digital media player, it must be SDMI compliant. Click here for more information. "

From reading the materials, it seems that although you can burn it to a CD, that CD won't pay unless your player is SDMI compliant. I'll wait for iTunes for PC thank you.

[swimmer]

does anyone know what happened to pressplay?

[KayMan2k]

If you can play the file on the computer then you can do anything with it. I think the SDMI info is just letting iPod users now it doesn't work with that - but does with lots of other players. Burning a CD is really an semi-digital format without copyprotection. There are no old-fashion CD players (that I know of) which support DRM so I wouldn't worry about that.

[Pat Logsdon]

does anyone know what happened to pressplay?
Roxio bought it for the re-launch of Napster. Here's the press release (http://www.roxio.com/en/company/news/archive/prelease030519.jhtml).

[KayMan2k]

Oh, I forgot.

PressPlay was bought by Roxio and is expected to be relaunched later this year as (the new) Napster.

EDIT: Sorry about that, someone else posted this as I was typing the post. :oops:

[swimmer]

thanks!

[GoldKey]

If you can play the file on the computer then you can do anything with it.

Then how are they limiting the number of times that it can be burned or copied to a portable device? My take is that it is a protected file that requires Media Player 9, you can play it on another device if it supports SDMI, so your burning it to a CD is really just a means of doing a backup. None of the materials I read said anything about being able to play it in a portable CD player or Car system.

Anyone actually used it yet that can shed some light?

[rasputinj]

aren't these songs in WMA format, I am not paying for anything that is not MP3.