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Jul 24, 08 - 09:29 am Comment from: rsbell

Dun, dun, dun-another one bites the dust...

Okay Chad. As an MDN reader, perhaps you'd like to explain to us why you were using this lousy store in the first place.

Well? We're waiting.

Jul 24, 08 - 09:30 am Comment from: loopy_nj

All five Yahoo Music users will be disappointed

I'm sure the 5 people who subscribed to Yahoo Music will be fine.

Jul 24, 08 - 09:35 am Comment from: ron

Just stick with iTunes.

Jul 24, 08 - 09:37 am Comment from: ron

"Thank you for using Yahoo! Music."

The Yahoo! Music team.

Now where do I get a job?

Yahoo had a music store? Why wasn't I informed?

Jul 24, 08 - 09:42 am Comment from: Metryq

"Your music files have been hobbled with DRM that does not stop real pirates, it just makes life difficult for honest customers."

You caught me! I had gotten a couple of free song credits from a Pepsi bottle so I (reluctantly) bought a couple of tracks, ripped them to a CD and re-imported them into iTunes. I haven't used it since, I swear! Don't turn me in to the men in black. hehe

Jul 24, 08 - 09:45 am Comment from: DRM sucks

"While the Yahoo! Music Unlimited Store will no longer be available...Yahoo! Music will continue to offer users a complete online music experience with the largest collection of music videos, Internet radio, exclusive artist features, music news, and more!"

Yahoo! Music sounds even more exciting now...somehow...

Jul 24, 08 - 09:48 am Comment from: Mr. Reeee

The evil of DRM.

Just buy the CD and rip it yourself. As many times as you want.

Of course, pop music CDs are lucky if they have more than 2 decent songs, the rest is bloat and filler.

Note: The term 'pop' is being being used in the widest sense possible.

Jul 24, 08 - 09:49 am Comment from: JAYGEE

Shouldn't that read "Yahoo! in general is dead?"

Exactly why you should buy DRM free music from Amazon.

Jul 24, 08 - 09:55 am Comment from: AAPLguy

"Don't turn me in to the men in black. hehe"

Black turtle-necks to be precise.

Jul 24, 08 - 10:03 am Comment from: ken1w

"Yahoo! Music Unlimited Store"

It's "unlimited" until we decide to close up shop.

Jul 24, 08 - 10:04 am Comment from: HMCIV

Key sentences from that letter:

After the Store closes, Yahoo!
Music Unlimited Store will no longer be available, Yahoo!


P.S. - 50 XBox Live Points to the first person who can find an old quote from a Yahoo exec commenting on iTunes.

Jul 24, 08 - 10:13 am Comment from: Ampar

Yahoo! Music Customer Care: A smarmy, courteous choice.


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Not a Yahoo! executive but still funny:

"Yahoo's full-fledged entry into the digital-music retail business could help shift a market that has remained tilted strongly in Apple's favor. Yahoo has already built a large and loyal following for its streaming-music and video service, and could parlay that into music sales."

- John Borland and Jim Hu
Staff Writers, CNET News.com
Published: March 7, 2005

And thus the problem with subscription music models becomes apparent. you pay and pay and pay and get nothing inreturn in the long run

Jul 24, 08 - 10:39 am Comment from: jocknerd

DRM. The main reason I don't buy music online. Here's why I prefer CD over online:

1. DRM-free
2. Better quality

Amazon is partly there. They are DRM-free but I can't stand MP3. iTunes is partly there. Great shopping interface and some DRM-free. But needs better quality. I really want lossless quality.

Another of the plays for sure partners?

I use yahoo music, with fairplay and have been able to strip the drm from over 300 albums...So I am one of those 5 users you are talking about...I have some work to do in the next 2 months!!

Jul 24, 08 - 10:44 am Comment from: Ampar

From wiki:
"Yahoo's existing users will be transferred to Rhapsody. (http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/music/rhapsodymigration/faq.html)"

That's just mean.

Another reason to not buy DRM music and videos. Wasn't just last year that a professional sports league turned off their DRM servers so that people who had paid for licenses to certain sport videos suddenly found they could no longer play them? What is right and fair about that? I do wish they would find a better, non-proprietary way to store digital music. MP3 does tend to squeeze out some of the better things in a song.

I understand that musicians do not want their music copied and that they deserve to be paid for it. But, there has got to be a better way than current DRM schemes. Everybody will benefit when a fair way is found.

Jul 24, 08 - 11:00 am Comment from: Sixvodkas

Sarasota.

Wrong! I buy MY DRM music from the iTunes store, whenever it's encoded using the vastly superior MP4 format.

While *you* may enjoy being the music cartels "bitch", I do not.
I buy from iTunes when the material is "iTunes +", and when it's not, I buy a cd (and I go out of my way to buy a used copy).

Now sit down, do as you're told, and keep buying from Amazon.

Jul 24, 08 - 11:03 am Comment from: shen

if enough stores close, and enough people buy from them *before* they close, maybe the general public will understand DRM and the remaining stores won't have to fight the music companies to drop DRM like it should be dropped....

Jul 24, 08 - 11:04 am Comment from: Sixvodkas

Make that DRM *free* music from iTunes.

All the world an .

Sixvodkas - There is no way that a 128k AAC file could sound as good as a 256k .mp3, no matter how superior the AAC may be.

@Mr. Reeee

Some CDs nowadays, especially from Universal Music Group, have DRM or something and won't play in computer CD drives. Four of the last six Universal CDs I've had were rejected by my computer and by others I used to test it wasn't my drive. Whatever it is, it's not very good. I was able to rip three of the four by repeatedly putting the CD in the drive until it eventually mounted in iTunes, although one took over eight hours to rip at less than 0.1x.

I'm not buying Universal anymore, and I've sent letters to the artists saying I'm not buying their music anymore because of the trouble I've had listening to the CDs.

So... this is the company that Microsoft tried, and failed to buy?
Why? Because Yahoo is so 'successful', they were simply beyond Microsoft's grasp?!

So now Microsoft can't even put together a successful effort at buying a failing company?!

Heh, heh, heh.

Jul 24, 08 - 11:24 am Comment from: GizmoDan

"Yahoo! Music has partnered with Rhapsody so you can still purchase your favorite tracks. Plus, Yahoo! Music will continue to offer users a complete online music experience with the largest collection of music videos, Internet radio, exclusive artist features, music news, and more!"


Translation: your purchased tracks will quit working the next time you have to reload Windows XP, but we will still get paid when you buy music from Rhapsody.

Jul 24, 08 - 11:55 am Comment from: TheConfuzed1

I especially like the part where they say the files are "protected" by DRM, and then they go on to explain how to circumvent it.

I have about 50 pepsistuff points that I haven't gotten around to spending. I guess I'd better shit or get off the pot now.

Jul 24, 08 - 12:00 pm Comment from: TheConfuzed1

Oops... Nevermind. Those pepsistuff points are for Amazon! I guess I can keep sitting on them afterall.

Jul 24, 08 - 12:05 pm Comment from: appaulmac

So, they close their music store, invalidating user's music, then they try to sell you their alternative service.

Who in their right mind would suffer the first and then give Yahoo another chance to do it again??

That's not the way to sell a service or product!

I really wish that MDN had included an iCal quote from the YMS launch, especially from some clueless third-party who probably said, "this is an iTunes Store-killer." Yeah, right.

Coincidently, I was on the Amazon music store the other day after being referred there for a single I wanted. Since I had previously used the store, and even had the download-and-put-in-iTunes app, I figured it would be painless. Wrong. I spent at least 12-15 mins troubleshooting my inability to buy the song. Only after deleting all my credit cards and all my one-click addresses, and then reloading a new address and credit card, was I able to get the song.

Say what you will about MobileMe (actually, it is working pretty well for me after a rock start), iTunes is the largest music store in the world for a very simple reason: It just works. Thanks, Apple!

Can't you guys come up with anything more creative than "More blood on Apple iTunes Play button"? I have been reading this site for years and I have to say after seeing that show up numerous times, I'm really sick of it. Please come up with something new?
Thanks,

-M

Jul 24, 08 - 03:10 pm Comment from: OctoberMac

After buying MusicMatch in Sept 2004, this was said:

"Yahoo! is committed to being a major player in digital music," said Terry Semel, chairman and chief executive officer, Yahoo! Inc. "This combination bolsters our strategy to capture the largest audience of consumers as they make the shift to digital music and supports Yahoo!'s goal to give consumers the greatest choice, control and flexibility in how they interact with their music. This acquisition is one of several product innovations and new initiatives in which Yahoo! will invest to build our music portfolio this year and in the future."

Jul 24, 08 - 05:04 pm Comment from: Ampar

"Can't you guys come up with anything more creative than 'More blood on Apple iTunes Play button'?"


Well, it's just that more amniotic fluid, aqueous humor, bile, cerumen, Cowper's fluid, chyle, chyme, female ejaculate, interstitial fluid, lymph, menses, breast milk, mucus (including snot and phlegm), pleural fluid, pus, saliva, sebum, semen, serum, sweat, tears, urine, vaginal lubrication, vomit or water on Apple iTunes Store’s play button didn't make as much sense.

Although tears and vomit come the closest.