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eMusic stuff is encoded at higher quality than iTunes Music Store.
eMusic encode at minimum 192kb VBR mp3 (using LAME 3.96) and iTunes at 128kb AAC.
Even with AAC's marginally better compression/quality ratio over mp3 eMusic stuff should have better sound quality.
― treefell (treefell), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 09:38 (seventeen years ago) link
I see they have Bloc Party's new one, but oh.
I might actually do a get on Felt.
What else? I did get the "Prefects" live one, and there's plenty Fall there.
― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 09:59 (seventeen years ago) link
I am totally addicted to emusic. I have the old annual plan that works out to 90/$16 and a monthly second account at 90/$20.
They just added Luaka Bop which I bookmarked lots of stuff from. It's possible that they'll get EMI, which could change emusic significantly.
― a.b. (abanana), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link
four years pass...
A rant I ranted last weekend when drunk follows. I stand by it all, the user experience of this site goes from idiotic to idioticker ... but I still love the basic premise of emusic, so that's why I actually care a bit. Who dreams up these shit ideas anyways???
/rantstart
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I know most or all of these things have been said many many times before, but I'd just like to add my voice:
-- One should *not* be required to know that one should click a button labelled "+" to save for later. I do not want to "+" the album, I want to save it for later, so I'm looking for a part of the screen saying "save for later", or "remember" or "make note" or something synonymous. Not "+". There are swathes of blank grey space on every page now, so I do not buy that "+" was necessary for space considerations.
-- EVERYTHING IS TOO BIG except the actual information content on every page. This ties in with the "+" point.
-- Tying in with both points above, DO NOT HIDE THE MOST RELEVANT INFORMATION. If an album has 274 tracks, you not only ought to, but *MUST* SHOW ALL OF THEM RIGHT AWAY. No scrollbar, not a "more" link.
-- OK I can choose between seeing 24 and 48 albums on each page. WITH HUUUGE COVER GRAPHIX HURRAH! No. That is not what I want, and especially not in three columns. If it absolutely *has* to be limited, I want to see as a minimum of 500 albums on each page, in ONE column, and hold the covers, not interested in those. (Please remember that for many of us, ctrl+f is a mode of webreading.)
-- Do not violate Web navigation standards. In Opera, shift+click means "open in new tab". In Firefox, ctrl+click means "open in new tab". Emusic ignores all of this, and opens the link in the same tab. Yes, one can rightclick+"open in new tab", but that is not how I (for one) intuitively browse; you are violating universal usability contracts here. (To be "fair", I believe the previous version of Emusic violated them as well.)
-- The general rule to be remembered above all others: Redesigns, updates and revamps are, without exception, A BAD THING per se. I'll grant that sometimes they are necessary. There were quite a few things with Emusic it was necessary to redesign, update and/or revamp. The overlap between these things and the ones that have been worked on is zero.
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/rantend
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 1 December 2011 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
you're not paranoid, but i don't think that's the motivation for the site changes.
they went from some costly framework for presenting the site to users to a nearly-free framework for presenting the site to users. the transition has been very rocky, and they apparently didn't do enough beta-testing or take other curative steps. it's gotten better, but there are still many bugs to be worked out. the change, as i understand it, was not motivated by any great decade in revenues or profits (emusic is still at about 400K subscribers, as it has been for a few years now), it was just a cost-saving measure that hasn't been handled well.
this is all from the emusic message boards. i agree with a lot of what anatol_merklich said, btw.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 3 December 2011 04:22 (twelve years ago) link