07-13-2008, 04:10 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 22
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Subscriptions Don't Work
Subscription music in theory sounds great, but in practice it's abysmal for most users. Steve Jobs hit the nail on the head when he said people want to own their music, not rent it. If subscription model servies were a valuable asset to the MP3 player paradigm, then you can bet iTunes would have had it by now.
Subscription will forever be a stinker for the majority because of the DRM attached. What happens when a service goes under (MSN Music) and the DRM on those rented tracks is no longer supported? Well, there goes those months and months of $15 payments out the window. Not good.
I can't help but notice how many Rhapsody To Go and now Zune Pass members bemoan that the most popular tracks from an artist are excluded in the subscription model. This is just bad form and it conveys a notion that both the provider (Rhapsody, Zune) and the record labels view the subscription member as a second class customer who prefers to shop on the cheap.
Leave the subscription behind and purchase the tracks in an open form from Amazon MP3, Rhapsody MP3, iTunes Plus, and eMusic.
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