UPDATE JANUARY 2010: This review is now several years old. eMusic has announced that as of July 2009 theyare increasing their prices (nearly doubling the price of tracks in some cases), as wellas adding some major-label material from Sony and (as of January 2010) Warner record labels (seethis blog postand this blog postat the offical eMusic blog, 17dots). This review is left here for historical purposes. After continuing site issues I no longer recommend eMusic to anyone.
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Hello, I was an eMusic.com subscriber for many years, and I wrote this article to informpeople who wanted to know the full scoop, the pros and cons from a real user. Best regards, — DreweMusic.comis a music dowload service like iTunes Music Store,but it's a subscription service. For $10 amonth you get 30 downloads, which turns outto be about 30 cents a download, far cheaperthan iTunes.It's really the grandmomma of MP3 download sitesand it's been around since before iTunes Music Store.The pricing is great, just the right price for music downloads in my opinion.A typical 10-track album is $3 instead of $10. You can also get 75 tracksfor about $20 per month (27 cents per track). If you pre-pay for a year youget a discount so the price per track will be about 21 cents per track.
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If you like discovering new music, andyou like having files that you can keep forever, burn to audio CD, and listenin your iPod or any other MP3 player, you'lllike the fact that with eMusic you get regular, DRM-freehigh-quality MP3 files (192Kbps+ VBR, LAME -alt-preset-standard)without any DRM copying restrictions or 'authorizing' nonsense.Even though iTunes is now offering a selection of DRM-free files,with eMusic the files are standard MP3s and so they will work in all MP3 players,not just iPods.
The main difference between eMusic and iTunesis that there is no major label music on eMusic.So you won't find any of the latest pop/rock hits,and only a tiny fraction of the major hits of the past.If you just want songs you are familiar with, eMusic isnot the best choice. However, if you like to have a sourcefor a wide variety of independent-label music at great prices, you shouldconsider it.eMusic does have a lot of music: 2 million+ tracks from 9000+ labels.
They have a ton of music in all genres, from rock, pop,to jazz, reggae, classical, electronic, house, dance, trip hop, dub, comedy,and everything else. What's Available On eMusic
eMusic has been getting a lot of new labels lately,like Ninja Tune and Greensleeves! Great stuff.Here are some examples of the stuff they have:Some labels you may have heard of (these are by no means the 'most popular' or 'best' labelson eMusic, they are just ones I chose off the top of my head)- Ninja Tune (96+ albums from artists such as Amon Tobin, Bonobo, The Cinematic Orchestra, The Herbaliser, Kid Koala, Up, Bustle & Out, DJ Food, and many more)
- Greensleeves (299+ albums from reggae artists such as Scientist, Bounty Killer, King Tubby, Black Uhuru, Sizzla, Beenie Man, and many more)
- Ubiquity Records (101+ albums, plus 31 more Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban, salsa on Cubop and22 more classic funk, jazz and soul grooves on Luv N Haight)
- Matador (222+ albums from artists such as Cat Power, Yo La Tengo, Belle and Sebastian, Pavement, and many more)
- OM Records (91+ albums from great artists like Kaskade and Mark Farina, and also including 30+ great compilations)
- 4AD / Beggar's Group (139+ albums from artists such as The Pixies, Cocteau Twins, Bauhaus, Dead Can Dance, Lush, and many more)
- Eighteenth Street Lounge (24 albums from such artists as Thievery Corporation, Ursula 1000, Thunderball, and more)
- Stones Throw (40 albums)
- Delicious Vinyl (30 albums from artists such as The Brand New Heavies)
- TVT Records (180+ albums from such artists as Guided By Voices, Underworld, Sevendust, Nightmares On Wax, and more)
- ... and many thousands more ...
- Thievery Corporation (5 albums)
- Amon Tobin (6 albums)
The White Stripes (5 albums)(UPDATE: removed January 2008)- The Raconteurs (3 albums)
- The Pixies (8 albums + 1 EP + 2 live albums)
- Mouse On Mars (7 albums)
- Tortoise (5 albums)
- Underworld (9 albums/EPs)
- George Carlin (12 comedy albums)
- Mitch Hedberg (2 comedy albums)
- Del The Funky Homosapien (3 albums/3 EP's)
- Tortured Soul (1 album + EP)
- Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings (3 albums)
What Rocks About eMusic
eMusic is really a great value compared to other download services like iTunes,especially if you find yourself buying music every month anyway.The main advantages are the huge variety and quantity of great music;inexpensive cost per track; high quality tagged MP3s with no DRMcopying restrictions; and iPod compatibility.If you are a music lover, you will soon discover that there is too much good music on eMusic to download it all.You will be waiting for your downloads to refresh and buying booster packs to tide you over.There are literally people out there with multiple maxed-out eMusic accounts because they keep wanting more and more!The extra featuresthat really make it a great value are the free re-downloadsof your tracks while you are a subscriber. This means thatyou have access to your entire eMusic collection from any computer(e.g. home and work).More great extras include an extensive wish list capability,free tracksand advance releases,and eMusic exclusives.Their web site is usable and reliable, although now showing its age with the lack of a fewfeatures (like tags). There have been a few glitches here and there over the years but I have downloadedmany many gigabytes of music from them with no problems.Their Customer Service has been very helpful when I have needed to contact them, which was rarely.But in my opinion, one of the main reasons to support eMusic is to votewith your dollars for cheaper downloads andMP3s with no DRM copying restrictions. The eMusic model online musicsales model is worthy of support! As it succeeds, more labels will signup and make it even better.What Sucks About eMusic Lately (December 2007)
OK, this part really sucks. I hate to say it, because I've been a long-timer subscriber and I like eMusic, but they have done some semi-shady stuff lately. I tend not to trust companies to do the right thing, ever, so I am resigned to simply ignore shadiness until it directly affects me. In the case of eMusic, so far it hasn't, but it sure does make it hard to unreservedly recommend eMusic the way they are going. It would be nice if companies would realize that their shadiness will hurt them in the long run, but I have yet to see a big company that gets this message. eMusic is no different.The current shady issue (as of December 2007) is the Free Trial issue. It used to be that you could sign up for a free trial, download your 25 or 50 free MP3s and then cancel and not be charged anything. However, they have lately changed it so that you have to subscribe and be charged for your first month's subscription before you get any free MP3s. You do get your free MP3s, but they are apparently simply added to your first month's download quota instead of given to you before your subscription starts. This is a major change, and in fact there are still many parts of the eMusic site which discuss a 'free trial' and a 'trial period' which no longer exists. So be careful: if you sign up, you will be charged immediately. (This has not happened to me directly, but it is based on online discussion of their policies.) However, you can still cancel whenever you want, so unless you signed up for an annual plan, it will only cost you from $10-20 to try out eMusic (and you'll likely end up with anywhere from around 55 to 140 MP3s for that price). So, don't sign up for an annual plan first thing, give it a few months maybe to see if you like it!Another shady issue lately has been upgrades. eMusic occasionally sends emails or makes offers to upgrade your account, but for some insane and completely stupid reason, they decided that the link in the email should instantly upgrade you if you click it. You are not given a confirmation page or warning that your credit card is about to be charged. This goes against every web ecommerce standard out there, and really makes people mad, so why they are doing it is completely beyond me. They have essentially trained me (and many others) to never, ever click any sort of 'Upgrade' link, lest it instantly charge you (or worse, change your subscription plan). I'm just giving you the full scoop and if you decide not to sign up because of that, I don't blame you one bit.Another major problem lately, not shadiness per se but just general cluelessness, was the eMusic Remote debacle. eMusic replaced their download manager program which worked fine for years, with a custom branded version of Firefox they created called eMusic Remote. This was to completely replace the eMusic Download Manager, however, they launched it with apparently very little testing, because many users had major problems getting it to work. It got so bad that even long-time users were cancelling their accounts over it; in fact, when you emailed customer support about any issue, you got a canned 'how to cancel your account' email back by default. Luckily, they brought back the old download manager, but if you want to download audiobooks, I think you are required to use Remote.What Sucks About eMusic
Everything had its downside, right?Here's what generally sucks about eMusic.First, you need to PAY for your first month's subscriptionto get any free downloads. (There are no more 'free trials' ... all 'free'MP3s as of this writing in December 2007 require you to pay)The main 'downside' of eMusic is the lack of major label music.If you're aware of this when you sign up it's not bad, but manypeople apparently expect all their favorite Top 40 artists to beavailable.Until the major labels wise up and start allowing DRM-free downloadsof their music, it's not going to happen.If you just want your classic rock and current top 40, you will bebetter off with iTunes or Napster or something. But ifyou want to experiment a little, and get some great musicin the process, eMusic rocks.A side effect of this downside is that it can take a little longerto find music that you want to download. You generally need tosample the tracks to see if they appeal to you, because you won'trecognize them by name. This can taketime. Most of the time, instead of searching for a particular artist name, you will generallybrowse the site and sample the tracks to find the ones you like.One of the other things that sucksis you have to use your subscription downloadswithin 30 days or you lose them. They don't roll over to the next month. So set a reminder alarm to popup every 30 days. Not every month; every 30 days exactly. Thiscan bite the unwary, so be aware!One annoying thing is that you get no indication that you've downloadeda track or album already (except by manually checking your Downloads list).This is not so bad, except many times I'vespent time carefully evaluating an album, only to find out I hadalready downloaded it 2 years prior. The worst part of this, however,is when the same track appearson several albums (e.g. on an album and the corresponding single).If you download the track from each album separately, it willcost you a download.One more annoying thing is that not all tracks are licensedfor all worldwide regions. So if you are not in the USA, you maynot be able to download all albums, and vice versa. They haveseparated out the various regional sites to a large extent, so most of the time(if you are in the USA) you won'teven see the albums that you can't download, but it is still annoying whenyou come across one (via a link from an external site for example). If youare not in the USA, you will run across unavailable albums more frequently, unfortunately.Another thing that is not so great is the track samples.Sometimes they are too short, or just misleading. This isespecially noticeable for some electronic tracks can haveseveral minutes of buildup before the main riff kicks in. However,the track samples (which are 30 seconds long) are adequate most ofthe time and they are also high-quality (approximately 192Kbps) whichhelps a lot. I also like the fact that the track samples use yourstandard audio player instead of Flash, so you can easily queue up a bunchof samples and continue to surf the web.Another annoying thing is that they have albums on there thatare either covers of, tributes to, or spoken word albums aboutpopular mainstream major label artists. They even have the poor judgmentto classify these under the original artist section! Thisresults in the unwary downloading the album without realizingthat it has none of the original music tracks, and sometimes no music at all! Luckily nowadays youwill see several negative review below the albums, warning thosenot paying attention not to waste their downloads. Also it helps to just be awarethat no major label music is on eMusic, so any albums with'Madonna' or 'TLC' in the name are not by them!Another slightly annoying thing is that they letyou can see what other people have downloaded, and otherpeople can see what you've downloaded.So to maintain your musical taste privacy, remember not to use yourreal name as your username.Another minor thing is thatthe album art is low-resolution and does not automaticallydownload, but luckily there are plenty of other websites that can locatehigher-res album art.The downsides are really minor compared to theupsides: cheap downloads,regular high-quality MP3s with no restrictions,re-download anytime for free, great list features,and a huge variety of music.Their site makes it seem like you need to signup to check out what they have available. Youdon't! To search or browse from the 25 Free MP3s page, clickthe 'LOG IN' link in the upper right corner.You can then browse the site and listen tosong snippets without an account. Or just click oneof the artist or label names that I've linkedabove and start exploring!The Deal
As of December 2007, here's the scoop:- eMusic.com is an auto-rebilling subscription service. You choose a plan when you sign up and they charge your credit card each month.
- You can cancel anytime.
- You can change your monthly plan whenever you like.
- eMusic Basic plan is $9.99/month, you get 30 downloads per month.
- eMusic Plus plan is $14.99/month, you get 50 downloads per month.
- eMusic Premium plan is $19.99/month, you get 75 downloads per month.
- Audiobook downloads are an additional $9.99 (for 1 book per month) or $19.99 per month (for 2 books per month). This is a separate subscription from your music subscription.
- If you prepay for 1 year of service, you get 20% off the normal monthly price.
- If you do not use your subscription downloads within 30 days, they expire. Unused downloads do not roll-over to the next month.
- You can purchase 'booster packs' of extra downloads which expire after
1 year90 days (changed as of April 2008). The best deal is $19.99 for 50 extra downloads. - Your downloaded MP3 files are yours to keep forever, and you can re-download them anytime.for free as long as you are still a subscriber. They will still play even if you cancel your eMusic subscription.
- The files you download are DRM-free high-quality MP3s that work in all MP3 players (including iPods), and can be burned to audio CDs.
- You get 25 (or sometimes more) extra 'free' downloads after you pay for your first month's subscription. This is a changefrom the way it used to be prior to November 2007 or so! It used to be that if you cancel before thefree trial is over, your credit card will not be charged. But now, you pay immediately! You just gets some extratracks your first month. Warning, if you just want to try out the service, don't immediately buy an annual subscription!
- There are sometimes other goodies like free tracks and sometimes entire free albums.
Summary
If you would like an excellent source of music and comedy, eMusic.com is worth checking out.For the price of 2 audio CDs per month ($20), or 20 iTunes downloads, you can get 75 tracks: about 7 CDs worth!And this will be 75 tracks you individually hand picked because you liked them,not CD's with 60% filler tracks.But more importantly, you will be supporting a digital audio distribution system that hopefully will bethe way things are done in the future. Vote with your dollars to keep musicinexpensive and DRM-free.
All trademarks used are the property of their owners.Late Night Tales: Nightmares on Wax | ||||
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Released | 12 May 2003 | |||
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Genre | Electronica | |||
Length | 75:32 | |||
Label | Late Night TalesALNCD08 | |||
Producer | Nightmares on Wax | |||
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Late Night Tales: Nightmares on Wax is a DJ mix album, mixed by Nightmares on Wax, released as part of Late Night Tales' Late Night Tales / Another Late Night DJ series.
Track listing[edit]
- 'Midnight Marauders' - Joe Dukie & DJ Fitchie
- 'Gravy Train' (N.O.W. Mix) - Ian Brown
- 'Every Season' (feat. Damon Albarn) - Tony Allen
- 'Show Me Some Love' - The Rootsman
- 'California Suite' (Vagabond Mix) - King Kooba
- 'Listen (What It Is)' - Quincy Jones
- 'La Rue' - Cortex
- 'Sneakin' in the Back' - Tom Scott
- 'Action Tape 1' (Aim Madscope Mix) - Search
- 'Bout That Time' - Large Professor
- 'Cantamilla' - Tranquility Bass
- 'Intergalacticthrowdown' - Mad Doctor X
- 'Spooky' - Dusty Springfield
- 'Having Your Fun' - Focus
- 'Brothers on the Slide Dub' - Nightmares on Wax
- 'The White City Part 1' - read by Brian Blessed
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