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Weekend Open Forum: Your favorite music service?
Apple's iTunes is widely regarded as the service that spawned the legal music download industry. At a time when music piracy ran rampant on p2p networks, the platform served as the prime example that customers are willing to pay for content as long as they get a good buying experience at reasonable prices. Today there's no shortage of music services, with most recent launches falling in two camps: digital lockers or streaming services.
The first group includes the likes of Amazon, Google, and in a few weeks Apple, which basically let you upload your music collection to a server and access it from wherever you have an Internet connection for a yearly fee. The second includes companies like Spotify, Rdio, and MOG, which do away with the whole notion of owning songs altogether and just offer you access to anything in their catalog for free (with restrictions) or a small monthly fee.
Each has its advantages and disadvantages depending on what you're willing to pay, how you want to access music, and how big your music collection is. Today we want to know: where are you getting your music from these days? Have you subscribed to one of these services or at least tried out their free plans? If so, tell us which one and what has been your experience so far.
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T77 said:
for me it has to be gaana.com(still in alpha). Unlimited free streaming of music..
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amazon for singles
I still buy the cd's from my fave bands
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I am a subscriber to Spotifys "Unlimited" service in the UK, for £5 a month, unlimited add free music is a bonus, I don't have expensive speakers so am fine with the 128 bit rate cap, (For £10 a month its 320) I have been a spotify user since the Beta, was on the free service untill they capped it.
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http://www.iomoio.com/ 16 cents a song fixed rate and perfectly legal. Made in Russia
Edit: Actually, the more you deposit at a time, the more of a bonus you get. So by transferring $96, you actually get each song for 8 cents a piece.
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Spotify i have the premium service for 10 bucks a month and its epic
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amazing..that "NO ONE" mentioned the use of blogs to discover new music....thats a service
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