Monday, August 08, 2005

Yahoo! Music Engine

I'm really a fan of the music subscription model, and I'm a big fan of Apple's iTunes Music Store, but I decided to try the Yahoo! Music Engine based partly on a review in one of the regular trade mags and being bored with my large iTunes library. The Yahoo! Music Engine is the client software that you can use, stand-alone, to rip and burn CD's as well as organize. I still like the iTunes interface better, but this seems pretty good (still in beta form though). The appeal though was a subscription for $4.95/mo to Yahoo! Music Unlimited which gives me access to more songs then I'd listen to, streamed to me here at work. So far it works pretty good, once I got around the proxy issues (ie it uses the Internet Explorer proxy settings but doesn't have that documented anywhere that I found).

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