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Trying Yahoo Music Unlimited

Posted by on Feb 16 2006 in Apple, Music

On the recommendation of my friend Dave, I decided to give Yahoo Music Unlimited a try. Today I signed up for a year. I've been listening for a while now, and all I have to say is WOW! Apple, copy this right now! Yahoo definately has something good here. It's an intoxicating feeling to be able to listen to any song you want to. I've been wandering all over the place listening to stuff today. I can definately see how being able to listen to entire songs online would drive you to actually buy the song. A few suggestions though:

  1. Make an OS X version of Yahoo Music Engine right now! I wanna listen to this stuff on my Mac!
  2. Offer the ability to do a one-click buy of a discounted copy of a printed album on CD. I don't mean a low quality, DRM-encumbered digital download, I mean a full blown, standard music CD. If I'm gonna buy the album, I want the full quality album with liner notes and no damn DRM.

Link: http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/

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3 comments

Comment from: David Scheidt

David Scheidt
Welcome to the Dark Side of the Force! I totally agree on *BOTH* points. Unfortunately, #1 isn't going to happen soon. With M$ dropping Windows Media Player for OSX @ WMP 9 (YME requires WMP 10, I think), it will be a LONG time before the Mac will have a YME port (unless they switch to a different DRM). #2 is a *GREAT* idea! Subscription music @ 192 kbs encoding, but if you buy the track, it's lossless! I'd be buying a LOT of albums from YME if that was the case.
02/17/06 @ 00:11

Comment from:

Rick
YME requires WMP 9. I believe that Microsoft supports WMP 9 for the Mac. It should be doable. I *still* don't like DRM music, but the ability to listen to it online is still fantastic.
02/17/06 @ 08:58

Comment from: David Scheidt

David Scheidt
I agree DRM sucks the moose, but I can live with it to get YME... :)
02/17/06 @ 11:01