RSSAT&T to Offer Mobile Music Downloads from eMusic
By the Betanews Staff | Published July 31, 2007, 12:38 PM
AT&T on Tuesday announced the launch of its over-the-air music download service for its cellular subscribers, joining forces with eMusic to offer a catalog of 2.7 million songs. But the service won't run cheap: customers can pay $7.49 per month to download up to five tracks.
eMusic, which focuses primarily on independent artists, will provide two versions of purchased songs -- one for the phone and one full-quality MP3 version for the PC. Initially, handsets from Samsung including the a717, a727 and SYNC will support the service, along with the Nokia N75. Those wanting to buy additional tracks can do so in 5-song bundles for $7.59 each. Of course, AT&T customers who have an iPhone can simply purchase songs from eMusic for 33-cents or less and transfer them to the handset via iTunes.
I like Emusic's intention of offering DRM free high quality MP3's, but the company themself's (Emusic) sucks balls. I tried their service twice when they had 100 free downloads. Both times I cancelled before the end of the trial and they charged me for an extra month anyway. The first time they refunded my money after I told them what had happend with a relative nasty letter. A while later I thought it may have been a fluke and I thought I'd try it again, but they did it again and they didn't refund my money. They wrote back and said 'we have to pay the artists some how' type of attitude. After that I just said f them. Their music selection sucks anyway.
But that's probably 2 minutes of rambling that you'll probably never get back. Sorry.
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|eMusic is run by thieves. They stole several months of payments from me and have since been banned by my credit union for doing the same thing to several customers. They are as hard to cancel as AOL.
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|Emusic isn't the best service out there for music, its great for the independent, but independent artists don't draw a huge fanbase, plus 7.49 for 5 songs seriousily? You can get 75 songs for $15.00 & no drm which is nice.
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|What service offers that? I could use the info.
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