More blood on Apple iTunes Store’s play button: Yahoo! Music Store is dead

Mac Daily News | Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 10:24 AM EDT

[Swordmaker]

PiNG

[KentuckianaHeadhunter]

That’s ok, Rhapsody has a better selection, I just made the switch and am impressed.

[KoRn]

I would never purchase songs, or other media with DRM tied to it.

PirateBay & Morpheus, FTW!!!

[packrat35]

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.

[max americana]

I didn;t even know that Yahoo had a music store...

[Master of Orion]

What bitrates do they offer?

[martin_fierro]

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[Michael Barnes]

Dude, Frostwire

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[ETL]

I would never purchase songs, or other media with DRM tied to it.

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."

[My hearts in London - Everett]

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?

[MissouriConservative]

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.

[My hearts in London - Everett]

Thanks! :~)

[MissouriConservative]

You’re most welcome.

[Terpfen]

Spotty file quality at best on both services. Some are good, some are not. Usually the latter.

[Swordmaker]

I’m confused by the title.

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.

[MarkL]

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.

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

[jmc813]

People still actually buy music? I haven’t spent a dime on it since bit torrent became big.

[jmc813]

I would never purchase songs, or other media with DRM tied to it. PirateBay & Morpheus, FTW!!!

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.

[BlazingArizona]

Small wonder that everyone just steals music.