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Yahoo Music Shutting Down DRM Servers To Finish Transition to Rhapsody
Posted by Jason Chen at 3:00 AM on July 26, 2008
In a continuation of Yahoo Music's move to send their customers over to Rhapsody, YM's shutting down their DRM servers as of September 30. Unlike when MSN's Music servers shut down and then re-opened, it's very unlikely that Yahoo's will do the same, seeing as there's a process to convert your existing Yahoo Music tunes over to Rhapsody. You'll have to transfer the songs before the deadline, or else all you'll be hearing is the sound of yourself weeping over your lost tunes. [LA Times]
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BostonPimpDaddy
Posted 4:19 AM 26/7/08
DRM SUCKS
BostonPimpDaddy
axiomatic
Posted 4:13 AM 26/7/08
Listen people, don't buy anything with DRM on it. This lesson needs to be learned by the content owners that this EXACT kind of crap is unacceptable.
axiomatic
Cosmo2
Posted 4:04 AM 26/7/08
I dont remember where I read bout it but it said that they'll change the music industry forver...the website looks great....can't wait to see the thing launch www.justhearit.com @Cosmo2:
Cosmo2
combat chuck
Posted 3:57 AM 26/7/08
@combat chuck: Oh, and one time my download got screwed up because of proxy issues at work (word to the wise: don't download from amazon at work), and Amazon allowed me to restart the download when I got home, no problem, no extra charge.
combat chuck
combat chuck
Posted 3:55 AM 26/7/08
@friedgold: I've had a fairly good experience with amazon.com's mp3 downloads. They're usually 256 kbps, and album prices are sometimes dirt cheap.
combat chuck
Jkuhn
Posted 3:55 AM 26/7/08
amazon has a really nice music store and its all drm free
Jkuhn
friedgold
Posted 3:49 AM 26/7/08
this stinks, eff the RIAA and their draconian DRM laws.
what's the best place to (legally) download music? i used to go for itunes, but not all of their music is DRM free yet.
friedgold
Log1c
Posted 3:40 AM 26/7/08
@lordargent: The problem here is that you expect the RIAA to care about the consumer, I'd bet as far as they are concerned since the provider has changed, its completely new music and therefor you should pay for it again.
Log1c
ANoel
Posted 3:37 AM 26/7/08
I bought DRM'd music once.
When my son was ten and really into Jazz and starting to get into Rock, to give him a good example of how Blues impacted Rock I fittingly tracked down Muddy Waters' "Fathers and Sons". Furthermore, to demonstrate how to get music legally (Good Dad) I purchased the MP3 from Rhapsody. He loved his newfound world of music!
The next morning after an overnight power/APC failure and losses, we went back to Rhapsody to re-DL the tracks.
Sorry. SOL. They had no record of the transaction. WTF!!
To make a long familiar story short, we biked over to a used CD shop and picked up a copy for $6.oo and ripped it to every piece of music equipment in the house... and NEVER looked back.
ANoel
lordargent
Posted 3:32 AM 26/7/08
The RIAA says you're buying a "license" for the music. So, shouldn't they be keeping track of said licenses across all of the music services.
lordargent
rexplex
Posted 3:30 AM 26/7/08
I sure wish I had thought of building my busines around treating my paying customers like thieves, taking back what they had purchased & selling it to them a second (or third) time.
rexplex
Cosmo2
Posted 3:29 AM 26/7/08
www.justhearit.com
Cosmo2
Log1c
Posted 3:23 AM 26/7/08
Ha ha. This is what you get for being a shitty consumer.
Thanks for your cash,
Yahoo!
Log1c
strider_mt2k
Posted 3:06 AM 26/7/08
Music limited is music denied sir!
strider_mt2k
Zlevee
Posted 4:59 AM 26/7/08
People forget that Yahoo took the pretty decent MusicMatch Jukebox and killed it, only to die itself now. MusicMatch was particualrly great for tagging massive amounts of files and embedding cover art. iTunes simply grabs the cover art and puts it in the folder but doesn't fully integrate it into the music file, leading to you not having the artwork when you move files around or transfeer songs into another device. I say use MediaMonkey.
Good riddance, Yahoo Music.
Zlevee
Monty
Posted 5:17 AM 26/7/08
Correct me if I am wrong, but I suspect nearly all of the purchases of DRM music that Yahoo is killing off are based on purchases through MusicMatch. It was not bad enough that Yahoo killed MusicMatch (and planted annoying pop-up messages for customers that kept MM running), but now they are killing the purchases that MM customers made.
As Zlevee rightly pointed out, MusicMatch was a great product, arguably significantly better than iTunes. It is unfortunate that Yahoo had to destroy it.
Monty
greggo
Posted 5:11 AM 26/7/08
I must be one of the only people that actually likes these subscription services - I've downloaded and got interested in many, many bands through YMU that I never would have listened to otherwise. And do I really need to spend $10 every time Ryan Adams puts out a new, slightly better than average CD? Of course, I strip the DRM with Fairuse4WM so I can play it on my ipod, but I was pretty happy with it when I had my Zen, and if there was an ipod version (that worked smoothly) I'd be all over it.
greggo
urbanturban666
Posted 5:48 AM 26/7/08
yeah...another good reason to buy drm free...
urbanturban666
jkr2
Posted 5:44 AM 26/7/08
I think the RIAA or the DRM creators (many different DRM from different companies). should pay to keep the DRM key servers up, or tun their own.
jkr2
Cosmo2
Posted 6:13 AM 26/7/08
[link] www.justhearit.com [/link]
Cosmo2
Cosmo2
Posted 6:11 AM 26/7/08
did anyone hear about this website WWW.JUSTHEARIT.COM ?
I can't find that article I read about it recently, and I really wanna read it again...ANYONE?
Cosmo2
x23
Posted 10:18 AM 26/7/08
iTunes most certainly does integrate it into the music file. i do it alllll the time.
you must be doing it wrong.
or using the automatic album art grabbing function... which sucks and is worthless unless your collection is a rolling copy of the Billboard 200. that way does work in the manner you describe.
do it manually and it works perfectly fine.
x23
Zlevee
Posted 10:20 AM 27/7/08
@x23: You want to do this track by track? You're insane. I've got 60GB of music. I'd much rather use another program altogether. I have no need to buy from iTunes or use their software.
Yes, you can manually embed the artwork, but you're probably the only person in the world with the patience for that. everyoen else ends up thinking they have the artwork, but it's just a file in a folder that won't make it onto another device.
Zlevee
lacykemp
Posted 2:35 AM 29/7/08
@friedgold:
Rhapsody, Amazon, and Napster all sell legal DRM free music now.
lacykemp
x23
Posted 8:17 PM 29/7/08
@Zlevee: not that you'll ever come back to read this... but i do it an album at a time on import.
you know. import an album.
then it's sitting at the top of the library when sorted by date. select all of the album... get info ON ALL TRACKS... drag album art right off of discogs or amazon *right into* the little empty album art box. don't even need to download the art first to the desktop or anything... it pulls it off the interweb and embeds into every file. takes all of 9 seconds.
also gives me a chance to see that FOR CERTAIN every track on the album has everything i want it to have AND that all tracks are the same info. recently i decided i like "Year" being tagged. even gracenote (or whoever) screws that up or lacks it half the time.
takes considerably more time to import into your library than it does to drag album art to it. i normally use the time it is importing... to find the art.
but yes... if *you* wanted to... you could waste your time doing it track by track. don't know why you would do that. but since you think that is how it works... whatever.
and i have well more than 60GB.
x23