Comments on: CyberNotes: Blogmusik.net – Free Internet Virtual iPod

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 02:18:56 +0000

My friend wanted to go â€˜legalâ€™ as well and signed up for the pay service of Napster. But what he found was limited selections, he could rarely find what he wanted.

That’s the first I’ve heard about a limited selection at Napster. Does anyone know of a good service that has a good selection?

Inferno_str1ke: I agree with ya there on the limitations with some of the services. There would definitely be a market there for a service that didn’t make it so difficult to get the music you want for any device, and that didn’t have all of the frustrating limitations.

By: Ayreon

Ayreon — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:59:00 +0000

Call me old-fashioned, but I like to download albums from Soulseek and after a while just buy the album (in physical form) from djangos.com if I like it enough.

I like listening to full albums from my cd collection and dislike paying for an annoying DRM protected file, so buying digital is fairly useless for me. Not to mention the limited selection the ffextensionguru mentioned, which is annoying as well.

btw- Here in Israel we have 2 music downloading services (which belong to 2 different labels), and both just give you mp3s, which is a much appreciated approach.

By: ffextensionguru

ffextensionguru — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:34:22 +0000

My friend wanted to go ‘legal’ as well and signed up for the pay service of Napster. But what he found was limited selections, he could rarely find what he wanted.

By: Inferno_str1ke

Inferno_str1ke — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:57:17 +0000

I can’t imagine this staying up long either. I’ve said it on my blog and can’t remember if I’ve mentioned it here, but what I really want to see is an online download service (legal) that gives me .mp3 files. It’s all well and good for the RIAA to say ‘There are plenty of legal music download services, don’t use P2P’ but what exactly do you get from them? You get either an AAC (iTunes) or a WMA (everything else) that is limited to certain players, can be copied a limited number of times, can’t be burned to a CD and could technically be disabled at any time by the provider. If I buy a CD I can do whatever I wish with those MP3 files, and I’ve still paid the artist the money they deserve. I want to be able to do the same over the net, because sometimes the only song you like isn’t available as a CD single.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:06:00 +0000

We didn’t realize that it was a rip off of RadioBlogClub which definitely appears to be so. However, it is nice with Blog Musik that you don’t have to register in order to play songs…maybe that is something RadioBlogClub should consider doing as well.

By: TG

TG — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:54:58 +0000

BlogMusik is a complete rip-off from RadioBlogClub – [radioblogclub.com] It uses their database and the only change is the flash interface.

Raed more at TechCrunch – [techcrunch.com]

By: Ayreon

Ayreon — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:48:45 +0000

There's also RADIO.BLOG.CLUB, which is also quite similar to blogmusik. Both pretty much suffer from some incoherent filenames and a lack of a broad enough artist selections, but they are still fairly neat.