according to Coolfer every song you download will come with 90 SECONDS OF AUDIO ADVERTISING at the beginning of EVERY TRACK and will self-delete after 6 months.
― sleeve (sleeve), Friday, 1 September 2006 02:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Right, someone make a nice gizmo that automatically deletes the first ninety seconds, then saves to a new file.
Your country needs you!
― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 September 2006 07:20 (seventeen years ago) link
turns out that this is no big deal at all, a ruse even...
http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2006/08/universal_music.html
Sounds great, right? Free music without the KaZaA?
Well, here are the details:
Users can download an unlimited number of songs or music videos if they register at the site. [Verdict: Good]
The tracks cannot be burned to a CD [Verdict: Bad], but users will be able to transfer music to portable media players equipped with Microsoft Windows digital rights management software. [Verdict: Insane, because the punchline is that the songs will therefore not be available to 77.9% of the market (the iPod, of course, but it also won't work with Macs, though that's only bad news for we "enlightened few." :-)
The service will require users to return to the site and renew registration at least once a month or the tracks cease to play. [Verdict: Disappointing. I understand that ad-supported sites require users to...look at the site, but this is obnoxious..]
also:
http://www.adweek.com/aw/iq_interactive/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003084979
SpiralFrog users must watch ads on the site before they can download songs or videos, the company said. (The ad revenue is split with participating music labels.)
LOL @ MOUNTAIN OUT OF UNIVERSAL'S MOLEHILL
― lawl, Friday, 1 September 2006 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link
if i were to use this service, it would be pretty easy for me to convert the files to wav and then re-encode (increased lossiness negligible) then transfer to whatever device i want - presumably.
― kd, Friday, 1 September 2006 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link
SpiralFrog users must watch ads on the site before they can download songs or videos, the company said. (The ad revenue is split with participating music labels.And there will be questions about the ads to prove they had been watched.
In soviet russia, you watch Big Brother. Oh wait...
― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 September 2006 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm not going to look into it right now, but I all but guarantee recording artists will receive none of that ad revenue.
― nklshs (nklshs), Friday, 1 September 2006 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link
if i were to use this service, it would be pretty easy for me to convert the files to wav and then re-encode (increased lossiness negligible) then transfer to whatever device i want - presumably.I've gone through this type of rigmarole before in an attempt save some files from a Napster free trial. In practice it comes to way more of a pain in the ass than it's worth, unless there is something you just cannot find elsewhere.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 2 September 2006 03:11 (seventeen years ago) link