Emusic, what happened

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Serg · #1 Post by **Serg** » Fri Jan 02, 2004 10:17 am

I've subscribed to Emusic for about 4 months now. I have not downloaded any music for about 1 month and this week I went at it again. After I downloaded 5 albums I got a message saying that I reached my monthly limit. When did they change their terms? I used to have unlimited downloads for the $10.00 fee. Now I have a limit of 40 songs a month. Can you confirm this?

Serg

wheresmygravy · #2 Post by **wheresmygravy** » Fri Jan 02, 2004 10:22 am

That would be true, They changed it a couple of months ago. You should have gotten an email with the changes spelled out. That was when a lot of us bailed out of Emusic.

gatorgal · #3 Post by **gatorgal** » Fri Jan 02, 2004 10:26 am

Check this thread out if you want more info...

Tina

Serg · #4 Post by **Serg** » Fri Jan 02, 2004 12:44 pm

Thanks for the link Tina. I'll cancel my subscription this week. Too bad I did not have a change to go on a downloading binge.

Serg

gatorgal · #5 Post by **gatorgal** » Fri Jan 02, 2004 1:39 pm

Serg wrote:Thanks for the link Tina. I'll cancel my subscription this week. Too bad I did not have a change to go on a downloading binge.

Serg

I'm not sure you wouldn't gotten much of anything... so many people attacked their servers when that notice went out (including most people on this board

) that it took forever to download, and most times you couldn't download anything.

So you didn't miss much!

Tina

Greg Avakian · #6 Post by **Greg Avakian** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 10:06 pm

At 25 cents a song it's still a deal. For all the people who complain that they copy/download illegally because they are broke, this is a quick, cheap way to upgrade your music collection with songs you like.

wheresmygravy · #7 Post by **wheresmygravy** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 7:51 am

Being one of the ones who jumped ship, have they added any content worth returning for???

Greg Avakian · #8 Post by **Greg Avakian** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 10:10 am

wheresmygravy wrote:Being one of the ones who jumped ship, have they added any content worth returning for???

I guess that depends on what you've already downloaded. I've never gone on a major pillaging of E-music just because -even though I pay for the luxury- I have so much other music to listen to and catalog. I'd say I've gotten about 150 songs from E-music, but I'm picky. I see it as I haven't had to buy 500+ CDs.

So whatever I've spent, I saved $4-5,000.

They do update their catalog; I remember when there wasn't any Hank Crawford, Sonny Stitt, Charlie Barnett, Fletcher Henderson, Junior Mance or Gene Harris for instance.

I'd suggest using E-music as a searching device (I don't think you have to be a member to do that, do you?).

gatorgal · #9 Post by **gatorgal** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 10:14 am

Greg Avakian wrote:I'd suggest using E-music as a searching device (I don't think you have to be a member to do that, do you?).

Nope. I still use Emusic in that capacity.

Tina

sonofvu · #10 Post by **sonofvu** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 1:45 pm

Emusic and AOL is of the devil.

gatorgal · #11 Post by **gatorgal** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 2:27 pm

sonofvu wrote:Emusic and AOL is of the devil.

Tina