More colleges get cheap online music

Another group of colleges is getting access to cut-rate digital music subscriptions, care of MusicNet and partner Cdigix.

Cdigix, which offers packages of video, music and educational services to schools, said it will distribute MusicNet subscriptions to students at Marietta College, Ohio University, the Rochester Institute of Technology, the University of Denver, Wake Forest and Yale University beginning this fall. The service will cost $2.99 a months for unlimited access to music, plus 89 cents to download a song permanently. Napster has deals with another eight universities to offer similar services.

[wrwjpn]

But?

What will all these college students do with their iPods?
They want the best but the schools will only offer sloppy
seconds.

This is bound to fail. Please WMA is pure crap. MPG format is the
standard whether MS wants to except it or not. Just as the movie
industry is ready to except MPEG as it's standard. People want
flexiblity and the choice of playing multiple formats as the iPod
can.

[davebarnes]

Who cares?

Who cares?
Certainly not the students.

What student is going to pay $3/mo + $0.89/song when they can surf to www.allofmp3.com and download songs for less than $0.05 each? In their format and encoding rate of choice.

Or, maybe 10 students will get together and buy 10 albums and make 9 copies of each. That would cost each student $15 for approximately 120 songs or $0.13/song.

The music industry is clueless.

,dave

[fulotta]

Nice!!

Finally someone is catching a clue. This is a wonderful start to legal downloading. My friend has this service on campus and is getting it for free from his school. He's downloaded about 20,000 songs for free! Not a bad deal for free by the school. I can't wait for portability options!