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quincy · Post by **quincy** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 8:32 pm

Hi kids,

After extensively searching for online music services (I DON'T need it to be commercially popular stuff) i have decided that emusic.com looks like a good service.

For $9.99 a month subscription i can download 40 new tracks a month, thats seems pretty good to me. Loads of genres of stuff, plenty of electronicato keep me happ etc.

Before i take the final step and register, can anyone tell me of their experienes with this service?

It seems that there are not irritating restrictions on usage, i can download and do with the MP3s whatever i please, so i can burn as Audio CD, or whatever.

Just would like some final re-assurance that this service is as good as it seems.

Many thanks in advance

shamann · Post by **shamann** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 8:50 pm

PM Shane Sanders if he doesn't see this.

He's mentioned being a member and seemed to have good experiences with them.

VicDiesel · Post by **VicDiesel** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 8:50 pm

Emusic is all right. Their latest download manager works fine (the Mac version used to be somewhat unreliable/clumsy), and the files sound good.

Their catalogue is not mainstream, so search and make sure that they have stuff you want. Then it's pretty cheap for what you get.

(Last month the whole of my 40 downloads went to The Residents' The Commercial Album. But that's still an album for $10, and moreoever one that's impossible to find.)

V.

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 8:52 pm

shamann wrote:PM Shane Sanders if he doesn't see this.

He's mentioned being a member and seemed to have good experiences with them.

Thanks for the referral.

Yes, I love eMusic. I have discovered many new world artists there and find that when my monthly downloads renew, that it's a bit of a thrill to go hunting for new things.

If you decide to join, if you use me as a referral, it gains me extra downloads and you lose nothing in the process.

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 8:54 pm

One more thing. If you decide to cancel your subscription, it's easy and they don't screw you over with false charges. I was a trial member twice before deciding to stay with them and had no problems canceling.

M'Snah · Post by **M'Snah** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 9:09 pm

Sielsynth · Post by **Sielsynth** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 9:09 pm

I had an emusic.com account for a little over a year. Back when I first signed up it was 9.99/month for unlimited downloads. I was able to find some older jazz and groups that weren't popular or groups that sold their stuff independently. Its hard to find any mainstream stuff but depending on what you're looking for that may not be a problem. I got Thievery Corporation ,Flunk, The Cole Porter Project and some other pretty good stuff from there. But alot of times when the artists release subsequent albums if they get picked up by a major label you won't be able to find it at emusic. I decided that I wanted to be able to pick up some more mainstream stuff so I switched over to itunes. I was definitely worth it when the downloads were unlimited but now I'm not so sure.

As far as service and sound quality, everything was fine. If you like underground electronica. There is a lot of it.

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 9:19 pm

I was a member when there was unlimited downloads, too. I spent hours and hours cueing up stuff and gained an enormous collection of things that I otherwise would not have been able to afford.

quincy · Post by **quincy** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:01 am

Thanks for all the advice everyone, i'm going ahead with joining the cheapeast plan at $9.99 per month.

Sounds great that it used to be unlimited, but if you think about even at $9.99 for 40 tracks that still only 25 cents a track. Bloody cheap, and there's loads of fantastic 90/00's electronica of all kinds on there as i just discovered whilst browsing.

Looking forward to having a regularly expanding collection of MP3's to listen to and DJ with

Only complaint is search engine lacks a bit, and some artists/labels have little information. For example i seem to be having trouble finding some filtered french house style stuff.

Must be some in there somewhere!

jtxx000 · Post by **jtxx000** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:27 am

following a link from emusic i got to http://www.theorchard.com ... it looks pretty interesting, has anybody used it?

splattabreakz · Post by **splattabreakz** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:27 am

have you heard mirwais? they be some nice filtery french house

the track disco science is a personal fave, you may remember it from the snatch soundtrack.

quincy · Post by **quincy** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:30 am

splattabreakz wrote:have you heard mirwais? they be some nice filtery french house

the track disco science is a personal fave, you may remember it from the snatch soundtrack.

Is that the same geezer that produced that Madonna album? I suspect it is, some of those tracks had a certain filtered funk/house sound to them.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:33 am

quincy wrote:
splattabreakz wrote:have you heard mirwais? they be some nice filtery french house

the track disco science is a personal fave, you may remember it from the snatch soundtrack.
Is that the same geezer that produced that Madonna album? I suspect it is, some of those tracks had a certain filtered funk/house sound to them.

yep but his solo album is good

serious even i like it

the video to disco science is great too

splattabreakz · Post by **splattabreakz** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:34 am

vurt wrote:the video to disco science is great too

YEAH!

philipc68 · Post by **philipc68** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:34 am

The also have most of the Matador catalog, and lots of good stuff like Mogwai, Guided by Voices, Matmos, Cat Power, Explosions in the Sky, most of the TMBG catalog.

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