If you would like to download and burn as many songs as you like for $0.49 a track, then Listen.com has the right service for you. Listen.com offers online music from all five major labels and has in order to attract new customers and the offer is only available to Rhapsody subscribers who sign up ($10 per month) through Lycos Music and Listen.com Web sites between today and March 31, 2003.
The promotion is available to Rhapsody subscribers who sign up ($10 per month) through the Waltham, Mass.-based Lycos Music and Listen.com Web sites between today and March 31, 2003. This offer, which effectively cuts the routine 99 cent-per-track fee in half, also extends to existing subscribers. |
The promotion also reflects an irony in the the online music trade. While players such as Listen.com, pressplay and MusicNet, who honor myriad licensing contracts with the record labels that own the music, previously fought the idea of selling tunes individually without restrictions, the idea seems to be gradually gaining traction as an attractive lure to prospective customers.
For example, while the tracks Listen.com is offering are not illegal unrestricted downloads as, say, the way the Recording Industry Association of America paints file-sharing service KaZaA, they can be turned into MP3 files. Once the songs are converted, users can burn CDs with them en masse or transfer them to computers or portable music players.
Unfortunately it is not stated in what exact format the files are offered (bitrate etc), but for $0.49 it might be worth a try! Read the entire story here.
Source: InternetNews.com
