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Posted on 07/24/2008 6:43:33 PM PDT by Swordmaker
MacDailyNews reader Chad reports having received an email from Yahoo! that the Yahoo! Music Store will be closing. Here it is verbatim:
The Yahoo! Music Store Will Be Closing; Important Information About Backing Up Your Music Files
Greetings,
The Yahoo! Music Store, along with the ability to purchase and download single songs and albums, will no longer be available as of September 30, 2008.
Songs and albums that were purchased through the Yahoo! Music Unlimited Store are protected by a digital rights management system that requires a valid license key before they can be played on your computer.
After the Store closes, Yahoo! will no longer be able to support the retrieval of license keys for music purchased from Yahoo! Music Unlimited, and Yahoo! will no longer be able to authorize song playback on additional computers.
After September 30, 2008, you will not be able to transfer songs to unauthorized computers or re-license these songs after changing operating systems. Please note that your purchased tracks will generally continue to play on your existing authorized computers unless there is a change to the computer's operating system.
For any user who purchased tracks through Yahoo! Music Unlimited, we highly recommend that you back up the purchased tracks to an audio CD before the closing of the Store on September 30, 2008. Backing up your music to an audio CD will allow you to copy the music back to your computer again if the license keys for your original music files cannot be retrieved.
For further information on the closing of the Yahoo! Music Store, please refer to the Frequently Asked Questions or contact Customer Care.
Stay tuned! While the Yahoo! Music Unlimited Store will no longer be available, Yahoo! Music has partnered with Rhapsody so you can still purchase your favorite tracks. Plus, Yahoo! Music will continue to offer users a complete online music experience with the largest collection of music videos, Internet radio, exclusive artist features, music news, and more!
Thank you for using Yahoo! Music.
The Yahoo! Music team
PiNG
That’s ok, Rhapsody has a better selection, I just made the switch and am impressed.
I would never purchase songs, or other media with DRM tied to it.
PirateBay & Morpheus, FTW!!!
Well I am not recommending them but this is one reason that digital downloads are so big on bittorrent. You pay for a song legally and then the service shuts down and then your music is not playable.
DRM is stupid! I got a few songs from Wal Mart and had trouble playing on another computer. Yea, I burned them to CD but why make it such a hassle for something I PAID for!
I don’t download music from anywhere anymore.
I didn;t even know that Yahoo had a music store...
What bitrates do they offer?
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DRM = digital rights management
"Yahoo! Music Unlimited Store are protected by a digital rights management system that requires a valid license key before they can be played on your computer."
I’m confused by the title. Is this about iTunes or Yahoo Music Store? Are they the same thing? I’ve used iTunes to download podcasts but that’s all. My daughters have paid for and downloaded songs and movies from iTunes. Can you clarify?
Basically the title is saying that iTunes has blood (the Yahoo Music Store) on its hands because iTunes killed it. No one was going to the Yahoo Music Store because they all get their music on iTunes.
Thanks! :~)
You’re most welcome.
Spotty file quality at best on both services. Some are good, some are not. Usually the latter.
Mac Daily News has been chronicling the introduction and failures of various online digital music services and stores. Most have been failures, opening to great fanfare as "iTune killers" or "the answer to Apple's iTunes." Almost everyone has gone belly up trying to compete with iTunes. When one fails, Mac Daily News attributes it to iTunes killing it by the failed stores failure of competition.
Such a wonderful idea, DRM... This is the reason that I will never, under any conditions, purchase music files with DRM. There are a number of albums I've wanted to purchase electronicly, but they're only available as downloads with DRM. I've done without. I may eventually buy the CDs, but until then, I emailed the label and the store (Walmart.com) letting them know that they lost some sales.
Mark
People still actually buy music? I haven’t spent a dime on it since bit torrent became big.
After several months of observation, I've come to the conclusion that one's taste in music is reverse-proportional to the amount of music they buy via iTunes, etc. Everyone I know who buys music is into crap like John Mayer.
Small wonder that everyone just steals music.
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