Anyone else using this? I've actually become a pretty big fan. One thing I didn't realize is that the concept really works even tho you don't own the songs. You just pay about $17 a month for access to them. You can listen to them streamed over the net, download them to your PC, and/or transfer them to your MP3 player. I had about 5,000 songs on my external hard drive which crashed about 3 months ago. Before that I had about 4,300 songs on my MP3 player, but that got stolen so again I lost the music. After using Napster for a few months I've realized that it's basically turned into my music storage system, one that I can't lose. At this point I've ripped all of my CDs twice, and there's just no way I'm going to go through that a third time. Anyway, it's worth a look if you've ever lost your collection. I find that most of the time I just stream it and listen to a ton of different random songs.
What's the selection like? I mean, can you get pretty much anything from say the 70's to modern day? How about non English music? Yakumo
Well I'm impressed with their selection (had most of the artists I was looking for) but it seems it's unavailable for anyone outside the US...hmm.
heh yeah, I tried to avoid sounding like a walking advertisement, but it did seem like a good model for the future of media storage which was what interested me (and perhaps only me). I've manually ripped hundreds of cds twice and I'm back at zero again since my external HDD crashed. I'm just really not interested in amassing hundreds of gigs of music files a third time. Just my opinion, but at some point there will have to be some kind of universal system of media licensing. Instead of actually possessing the media on disc or on our hard drives it I'm guessing we'll have to have a license for that particular item (video, cd, etc) and be able to listen/watch it in different forms. If they can keep increasing the speed and quality of streaming/downloading then maybe it's something that could be practical, especially with video. Oh, and you have to use Napster Japan if you're in Japan. ...and one more thing...heh. There are cracks available for Napster so in the end if you really want to download and keep the music you can do that. I haven't really bothered with it.
What about using mediamaster.com instead ? it is free(or some of it anyway), and you can do all the above for free. If I understand correctly. If somebody can tell me if it isn´t a kind of media defender scam like type. Mediamax.com is another. But this is beginning to get quite P2P piracy like, and that is a thing I don´t like talking about here.
Some of remixes I'm after are only available on vinyl. I did a couple of vinyl rips but it's too much work. So that's why these services could be a good option.
If you have some vinyls you need to get digitalized, give me a shout. I got a whole mixing setup connected to a laptop.
Naptser is great until you realize it's the same fucking bullshit tunes you can hear anywhere. emusic.com <-- no DRM. My account is $15 a month and I get like 60 downloads and I can play them wherever.
Oh yeah, definitly. If it's not available in a physical format or its super expensive, it's dload time. I still need to rip my vinyls.
Well, good point. I usually listen to the CD, rip it to LAME MP3, and stick it on my Zune. The time where I do use CD's the most is in the car though.
I use CDs in the car and err, that's about it unless I'm listening to an OST that hasn't been ripped to mP3. yakumo
Or good music: http://www.gamengai.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1379\ The first three in that thread you can't find at emusic, but the rest you can.
