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p2pnet.net News:- Is XM planning online music rentals and an XM Digital Music Player?
Engadget thinks it is.
“Laurie D. over at TUAW received a reader survey from XM asking what she thought about a potential new service that would let you create ‘your own music library from both your satellite radio service and/or an online music download service’, music which could be then be sxmtored on your XM Digital Music Player, downloaded to your PC, or transferred to an MP3 player,” it posts, going on:
“Sounds like they’re trying to merge XM’s satellite radio service with a new subscription-type service similar to Napster To Go, Yahoo Music Unlimited, and Real’s Rhapsody To Go, and they ask whether for an extra $9.95 a month you would want to be able to automatically download any song you hear on the radio at the press of a button and have access to an online music library.”
But Engadget sees $10 as, “a little steep, especially considering that the regular XM radio service is only $12.99, you can only collect as much music as your XM Digital Music Player can hold (between 10 to 30 hours), and you lose access to your collection if you stop subscribing, but we like where they’re headed.”
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Engadget - XM planning online subscription music service and an XM Digital Music Player?, May 29, 2005
May 30th, 2005 at 10:12 pm
Somehow all these services see downloan as the way to go. Well, I understand that continually paying as opposed to a one time payment would make more money. However, I am the other side that has to do the paying. There is absolutely no future to such a scheme being a favored method of obtaining music with the consumer over the long haul. Endless payments with nothing to show for it in the end isn’t a fair trade in anyones book that is a consumer. The nothing to show for it will raise its head the first time your payment doesn’t make it on time.
You can keep your downloans, I will keep my money. I would say that is a fair bargain. You may certainly expect me to keep my end of it.