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Review - IncrediMailBeta Build 1452 (Apr 9, 2004)
I'm reversing on this program, too. Customer service is terrible, the Outlook addon for 2003 has yet to materialize, and it now appears that they are looking to charge registered user even more money.
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Comment - Microsoft Remakes DRM for MSN Music Service
10.0 Final Build 6.0.12.857 (Apr 7, 2004 - 7:34 AM)
For one thing you keep getting the price wrong for purchasing the music. It's 79 cents, not 80 not 99. It's the best deal out there right now, with the lowest price and no DRM. You said you knew all about Rhapsody, but you gave a vastly incomplete picture of the service. As for the dream of renting all 500k songs, that's fine, but as I state below, I would much rather just be able to be able to access the service from a mobile device.
As for the Microsoft service, I'll probably shy away from it for the same reasons that others here have mentioned (propietary file types, DRM, bad customer service, too much control for one company, etc.)
Nice talking to you. Enjoy your music in whatever form or from whomever you get it. -
Comment - Microsoft Remakes DRM for MSN Music Service
10.0 Final Build 6.0.12.857 (Apr 7, 2004 - 7:33 AM)
For one thing you keep getting the price wrong for purchasing the music. It's 79 cents, not 80 not 99. It's the best deal out there right now, with the lowest price and no DRM. You said you knew all about Rhapsody, but you gave a vastly incomplete picture of the service. As for the dream of renting all 500k songs, that's fine, but as I state below, I would much rather just be able to be able to access the service from a mobile device.
As for the Microsoft service, I'll probably shy away from it for the same reasons that others here have mentioned (propietary file types, DRM, bad customer service, too much control for one company, etc.)
Nice talking to you. Enjoy your music in whatever form or from whomever you get it. -
Comment - Microsoft Remakes DRM for MSN Music Service
10.0 Final Build 6.0.12.857 (Apr 5, 2004 - 9:51 AM)
It would seem to me that it would be far simpler to just make the subscription available to the player by building a wireless card into the hardware and creating a version of the software that will fit on a PDA or mobile device. My understanding is that several companies are already working on that.
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Comment - Microsoft Remakes DRM for MSN Music Service
10.0 Final Build 6.0.12.857 (Apr 5, 2004 - 9:37 AM)
Wrong again! Rhapsody is 79 cents per song if you want to burn them to a CD, put them on your MP3 player, etc. No DRM means you can do all of those things and copy the file to all the devices you want, for 79 cents. Now, if your point is somehow that you should be able to do that with your entire saved-within-Rhapsody-library for $9.95 a month, it won't happen because it would be a horrible business model. For $9.95, I essentially get commercial free radio playing my personal selections. To me that is certainly worth $9.95. Right now, there is no better deal for actually owning the files than Rhapsody (not to be confused with RealOne Music Store, a version of Rhapsody where the files cost 99 cents). Hopefully this clarifies things for you.
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Comment - Microsoft Remakes DRM for MSN Music Service
10.0 Final Build 6.0.12.857 (Apr 3, 2004 - 12:32 AM)
lossless, shmossless!!! No DRM, no hassle...that's what I want. I have it already, so the microsoft service is uninteresting.