eMusic.com

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 12/10/05 at 12:09pm

I took advantage of "50 free trials" on EMUSIC.COM. They needed your credit card number and you had to pick a subscription service but you wouldn't be charged during your trial or the subscription if you cancelled before the trial account was over. I'm worried now because although I cancelled my trial I still have an account there, and I don't want to be charged...I know I kinda signed up on impulse, that's how they target stupid college students...anyone more familiar with this service.

[jasonf]

Posted: 3/19/06 at 9:34am

I was looking at this today -- what ended up happening? Was it worth getting the trial?

[KelRel]

Posted: 3/19/06 at 3:21pm

I got 100 free downloads from them. I cancelled about a month ago and no charges were ever sent to my credit card. Their selection is kind of crappy, but I was able to get a few cast recordings I wanted.

[Parks]

Posted: 3/19/06 at 3:42pm

Yeah, their selection is awful...but I got the 2001 Godspell tour recording from them 2 years ago--I didn't recognize anything else. The Godspell tour cast recording couldn't be found anywhere else online at that time.

[Marlene]

Posted: 3/19/06 at 3:52pm

I've just generally have heard that they don't give you any problems billing wise but their selection is really limited, there's a lot of indie stuff...

[NCGuy]

Posted: 3/19/06 at 4:18pm

Their selection isn’t as bad as everyone here is making it out to be; they just don’t carry major label releases (their whole hook is that they only carry music from independent labels).

I’d never even heard of the site until about a month ago, but apparently eMusic is second only to iTunes in digital music sales (Rolling Stone did an article on them recently).

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 3/19/06 at 5:31pm

I never got charged, but the selection sucked. What I did attempt to download, however, didn't work on my computer. I think you needed some special player or something, which I wasn't going to download. How can they be second to iTunes? iTunes has 100 times the selection eMusic does. Or is it the iTunes equivalent with indie selections?

Updated On: 3/19/06 at 05:31 PM

[NCGuy]

Posted: 3/19/06 at 5:51pm

I guess “second to iTunes” is all relative; according to that RS article, iTunes is number one with 83 percent of all downloads.
Rolling Stone article on eMusic