Amazon.com is the latest big name company to enter the digital music industry by launching their store on Tuesday, 25 Sept. They already have 2 million songs that are selling from 89-99 cents each. It has already been confirmed that these songs can be used for your Zune or iPod. Universal and EMI have already signed a deal with Amazon to provide songs. Competition is good as it will make songs even cheaper over the long run.
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A new report from Zunerama indicates that songs from certain artists can not be shared via Zune. The report indicates that of the 50 songs attempted to be shared only 29 of them were successful. That isn’t impressive see that only 58% of the songs were shared successfully.
Apparently, when the transfer between Zunes is completed you would receive this message: “Can’t send some songs because of rights restrictions. 29 of 50 songs sent to [user]’s Zune”. (As seen on left)
This is pretty disappointing seeing that Zune’s most prominent feature is the ‘Social’ aspect. It is also disappointing to see that the record industry is putting these limitations on the files despite the 3plays/3days rule already on the Zune. I hope Microsoft works out things with record companies to eliminate these limitations. Or at least tell the user of the songs that cant be shared beforehand.
Sample of artists whose songs you can’t share: Beyonce, Fergie, Snow Patrol, Akon, Weird Al Yankovic, My Chemical Romance, Gwen Stefani, Ciara, Blue October, JoJo, Nas, Fantasia, Daniel Powter and Young Jeezy
Over at ArtistDirect, they have a bunch of MP3’s for free and the whole thing is being sponsored by Zune. As you can see in the image on the right, it includes some popular artists which you would regularly pay 99cents for. Although I do know that Wierd Al’s song is also available on his site for free aswell.
It’s interesting to see that the Zune advertising campaign is going like this. It is a shift from how other Microsoft devices and even Xbox are marketed. Probably the new campaign is to appeal to the typically young adult/teen market.
Hope you enjoy the songs!
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For the first time the Beatles records will be able to be purchased digitally on the Zune MarketPlace. Is this a way for the band to stick it to Apple? Who knows, but who really cares, its just good news all around for Beatles fans.
If you have iTunes and you download a song then oops you lost it, what happens? Well you have to fork the money over again to re download the song. Ok now that scenario in Zune MarketPlace, you will be able re-download purchased songs up to five times and possibly more if you call up tech support. Itunes does sometimes let you do this, but Zune MarketPlace takes it a step further and stem lines the whole process for the user.
If you don’t already know, they way songs will be purchased over the Zune Marketplace is via Microsoft Points. If you have an Xbox 360 then you would already know what these things are and be quite used to them. If not, then if you follow this link there is a good article describing what they are and how they all work.
Expect to see these little babies next to the iTunes cards at your local shop very soon.
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A interesting little line popped up on the Zune Walmart.com section. At the bottom of the description it says
Receive a free 14 day trial of a Zune Pass subscription with the purchase of a Zune.
But with all things comes a catch… It goes on to say that you must purchase a Zune Pass to continue accessing your downloaded songs.
After 14 days purchase of Zune Pass is required to continue accessing songs you’ve downloaded during the trial. See trial card for offer details. www.zune.net.
So this is a good chance for people to look around and try out the Marketplace, it does, in a way render its self pretty pointless as if you want to keep the songs you have downloaded, you will need to continue paying the $14 .99 per month for the Zune Marketplace subscription service. Although if you are a music junkie and will likely keep paying for the subscription, then it is all good news.
By the way, it says details are on Zune.net, that site is yet to be put online, when it is, it is suspected to be the official Zune site.
[Thanks Alber1690]
