Now this could turn into something big...According to this post on the Yahoo! Music blog, Yahoo! is offering a double-first for the service - a Personalized & DRM-free MP3 download.
Now, before you get your hopes up, the downside is that it's Jessica Simpson and is priced at $1.99 (blamed on the personalization).
However, the post continues to make the case for DRM-free downloads in the future - like eMusic does. As it mentions, I've always resorted to burning my purchased tracks to a CD and ripped them back into digital format so I can play them on whatever I want.
DRM on Yahoo! Music and Y! Unlimited is a constant sore spot on the Y! Music Engine Group - people frequently have issues with the licensing, and I've lost count of how often my Roku Soundbridge displays a padlock instead of just playing the track.
Cheers to the Y! Music team for keeping the push for music consumer rights in the spotlight.
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7-19-2006 @ 8:10PM
josh said...
on the subject of moving audio from one stubborn application or format to another, there's a great little utility out there called virtual audio cable. it creates a virtual sound card on your windows machine and lets you stream audio between applications in realtime, so you can easily record any stream or excerpts from a video or change the format of an audio file that your editor won't open or whatever.
there's a free version at:
http://spider.nrcde.ru/music/software/eng/vac.html
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7-22-2006 @ 3:00AM
trenchcoat_roy said...
If anyone can provide a URL for me to look at those DRM free section, I would consider buying them. I would not even consider buying anything with a DRM on it.
If I pay for it, I want to be able to do whatever I want with it and I do NOT want to have someone else control when and how I access it.
I have converted some of my CD's to MP3s but I shared none of them because I do have some sense of keeping the Artists fed. But now I don't even buy CDs anymore because the labels have started putting DRM crap on CDs.
I PAY --> MY RIGHT.
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7-27-2006 @ 4:40AM
Emily said...
i have no songs on my mp3 player
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