Comments on: eMusic going Web 2.0

Sometimes lost in the hubbub about new MP3 stores, eMusic has been selling DRM-free MP3s for years, and is about to get a facelift.

[Patrikc325]

I hope they do it right. I am seeing problems with the new www.lala.com and www.lastfm.com and their web 2.0 attempts.

[Preserved Killick]

I agree with the 'deal-breaker' comment. The subscription model was a big waste of my money-- while I was a member I felt obligated to plow through their recommendations hunting for something worth downloading. I rarely used up my monthly quota and it just felt like work. I'm happy now-- I hear a song I like, I write down the title and download the plain vanilla mp3 from Amazon.

[gerrrg]

Including the first free 50 songs and with 3 months' worth of downloading, I haven't had problems finding music that I want and using up all my download quotas. The radio station that I listen to (KNRK) in Portland Oregon plays a lot of the songs that I find on eMusic. Yes, there are a lot of songs that I can't find, but so what....I can buy them individually from somewhere else.

I would pay gladly pay the same price for half the songs if they offered those songs in FLAC format, but I doubt too many companies will be going that route. I would actually appreciate this more than any other change that they might institute.