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.

Right, someone make a nice gizmo that automatically deletes the first ninety seconds, then saves to a new file.

Your country needs you!

What about its free jazz catalogue?

What about its Free catalogue?

sorta doubt steve jobs is loosing sleep over this one

six years too late and million$ short

Downloads from Spiralfrog will not be compatible with iTunes service and iPods.

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I think this is great. Although I suspect SpiralFrog will have to change their AWFUL name if they want customers (we’re THAT picky now).

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

ok why didn’t those links get linkified. this board sux

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.

u r haxx0r

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...

Couldn’t they just ask some questions about trends in British and European improvised music between 1970–79 instead?

I’m not going to look into it right now, but I all but guarantee recording artists will receive none of that ad revenue.

Why should they? As long as they get a royalty for the download itself.

can i get a spiraloink invite

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.