Albums Downloaded from Emusic (v. 2.0)
Submitted by sleestak on Sat, 09/04/2004 - 01:01
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- Blonde Redhead - Misery is a Butterfly
- Dalek - Negro Necro Nekros
- Denali - The Instinct
- Denise James - It's Not Enough to Love
- Division of Laura Lee - Black City
- Elliot Smith - From a Basement on a Hill
- Explosions in the Sky - Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever
- French Kicks - The Trial of the Century
- Future Bible Heroes - Eternal Youth (incomplete)
- Hot Snakes - Audit in Process
- Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Streetcore
- John Cale - Hobosapiens
- Les Savy Fav - Inches
- Mates of State - Our Constant Concern
- Minus the Bear - Highly Refined Pirates
- Neko Case - The Tiger Has Spoken
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Lyre of Orpheus/Abbatoir Blues
- Of Montreal - Aldhills Arboretum
- On! Air! Library (s/t)
- Rasputina - Frustration Plantation (incomplete)
- Reigning Sound - Time Bomb High School
- Saturday Looks Good to Me - Every Night
- Secret Machines - September 000
- Tanya Donnelly - Whiskey Tango Ghosts (incomplete)
- Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Tell Balgeary, Balgury is Dead
- The Animal Collective - Here Comes the Indian
- The Deadly Snakes - Ode to Joy
- The Delgados - Hate
- The Delgados - The Great Eastern
- The Dirtbombs - Ultraglide in Black
- The Dragons - Sin Salvation
- The Halifax Pier - Put Your Gloves on and Wave
- The Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me
- The Natural History - Beat Beat Heartbeat
- The Reputation - To Force a Fate
Author Comments:
I re-upped with emusic after they changed from unlimited downloads to their current iteration where you pay a monthly fee for a set number of tracks. (In my case, I pay $20 for 90 songs.) Even though it's a rip-off that 35-second instrumental interludes count as much as 30-minute mega-songs, it's still a huge deal compared with iTunes or Napster.
If an album has (incomplete) after it, it means that I didn't download some of the tracks - typically those less than one-minute in length.
10/31/04 - Quit again because of bad customer service.
12/19/04 - Uh, joined again when given a free month's subscription.
What bitrate does emusic offer the files at? Is it loaded with DRM so you can't play it on anything but a few select software and hardware players?
Emusic uses Variable Bitrate for their downloads, so for example, the Les Savy Fav album varies from a low of 138 kbps to a high to 238 kbps. It seems that the average is around the 190's.
No DRM - everything is MP3 with no funny biz. As of now, you can burn and move the files as often as you wish to anywhere you want. The news of the "upgraded service" scares me, though.
(And I swear I'm not a shill - actually the bastards kicked me out in the "unlimited" incarnation for downloading too much - but if you sign up for the first time, I think they give you a 100 track trial. It's a really great deal.)
Cool. MP3 is still my favorite file format because:
1. It's the most widely compatible compressed audio format.
2. It's simply impossible to fuck it up with DRM.
3. I don't have the ears of an audiofile, so as long as its 128 kb/s or higher, it sounds great to me.
I agree completely. As with you, if it's 128 or above, I'm happy.