07/22/2003, 1:10am, EDT

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BuyMusic.com offers more songs for cheaper

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A new online music service, BuyMusic.com, is expected to launch later today, offering a catalog of more than 300,000 songs from the five major record labels in Windows Media Format, according to the Associated Press: "BuyMusic is charging 70 cents for individual song downloads -- 9 cents lower than MusicNow, which previously had the lowest per song price. It's also undercutting competitors' price for a full album download at $7.95. The iTunes' service charges $9.99 for most full albums...[However,] BuyMusic suffers from some of the same licensing drawbacks that the other PC-based digital music retailers have," as it was unable to obtain uniform licensing rights from the record labels and artists.

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119645 07/22, 1:19am, EDT is this site hacked?

all i see on the buymusic site is a elementary school drawing of a rocket taking off? hmmm.....

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119646 07/22, 1:41am, EDT Weak.

And I thought they were going to be decent competition.

No guarantee of CD burning, no guarantee on mp3 player support from song to song. Nice try. Ultimately a better effort than Rhapsody or Pressplay, but still second rate.

Aside from the technical and licensing problems of this new product, all of iTunes competitors are going to suffer constant comparisons to iTunes.

Apple got there first. Apple wasn't the 1st to ever do online music, but Apple is the only one out there who has put actual thought into it and got the key concerns right. Buy is nothing but a copycat, copying good ideas that Apple got right, but losing something in the photocopy, and offering nothing new and innovative over iTunes.

Buy.com. RIP.

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119647 07/22, 1:42am, EDT www.musicpimp.com

I tried www.musicpimp.com and got the same rocket! What I find to be hilarious about this bi-music deal is that Scott Blum is an ass head who totally slams the Mac platform openly and notoriously, yet he is riding on the coat tails of Jobs and Apple who gave him the idea to launch his music pimping service. What an ungrateful individual. He should be thanking God that someone like Jobs is out there paving the way for him to make millions of dollars. Take away Blum's price undercutting strategy and you've got dick. And his websites suck too. I hope Apple makes the iPod deliberately INCOMPATIBLE with Windows media format (like MS would do) just to screw up Buymusic.com since it is run by a complete louse.

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119650 07/22, 2:10am, EDT LOL

Pathetic. Nuff said.

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119651 07/22, 2:11am, EDT LOL

Pathetic. Nuff said.

Hmmm ... now that I think about it, this will make a nice APPETIZER for the *real thing* ... ie iTunes Music Store for Windows ... so maybe it ain't all bad.

Anybody who thinks it will last six months beyond Apple bringing out their Windows software? Anyone?

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119652 07/22, 2:12am, EDT Zing your wish...

is granted, ipods have never supported WMA...HeHe!

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119653 07/22, 2:32am, EDT iTunes killer

Apple: first and worst

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119654 07/22, 2:32am, EDT It's Like Jobs said

It's not easy to pull this off right. Apple has the codec with just enough rights management, it has the iPod, Quicktime, AAC, lots of experience running server farms with digital content (it went up that morning, remember?), and iTunes. They think they can level their sights at this little company, but it's not going to be easy to dislodge Apple from this space. Hurry up with iTunes for Windows, though.

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119655 07/22, 2:40am, EDT re: iTunes killer

Explain "worst". Its VERY hard to bash the iTunes Music Store.

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119656 07/22, 2:53am, EDT Cowabunga!

I am surprised that Mr. Blum didn't name his service BuyTunes, and I won't be surprised if he tries to come to market in the near future with BuyPods. All for 20% less cost than whatever the prevailing rate is for their competition, of course.

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