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I read about this service in the Sunday Newspaper, and I was very sceptical, as I am with all online music stores available in SA. I was firstly concerned with DRM issues, and also I wasn't expecting the range of music to be all that broad.

But nevertheless I went to the site to see what its about. I searched for the new Bring Me The Horizon album (There Is A Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There is A Heaven, Let's Keep It A Secret) and there it was! I was quite surprised as any music I buy I pretty have have to order through Take 2. Plus it was reasonably priced (R100 for the whole album). Individual tracks cost R8, and the album has 12 tracks so, naturally it was cheaper to buy the whole album.

Important to note is that there is no DRM at all.

However, once I paid for the album it only gives me the option of downloading each track individually - what a HACK!!!! >☹

Another thing is I cancelled one of the tracks downloading by mistake.. now it seems like I can't redownload it. Maybe I just need to re-log in. I will chuck a rage if I can't download it again hmmmm..

So besides from that... quite a positive experience so far. I think there is finally a decent online music store for us safricans (at least it seems good for me). They just need to sort out the individual track downloading thing...

Has anybody used the site?
    You can re-download songs you've purchased.. you just gotta go to your download history. sweet deal.
      I've used it when it was Nokia Music. Worked well, was easy but I could only play it on the Nokia music player... no Ipod. niks... I'm glad they have sorted that out...
        256 kbps mp3's, great prices and most importantly NO DRM. This seems like a major win.

        The selection is impressive, they had the majority of the obscure metal stuff I threw out. At R80 an album?! These things would be R200-R260 at CD shops, if you could find it.
          Downloading 1st album now, seems fine except this:
          doc-phil wrote: They just need to sort out the individual track downloading thing...
          They have got to fix that.

          Does the Ovi Player perhaps offer one-click album downloads? I haven't bothered installing the bloatware, but I will if it can do that...
            doc-phil wrote:
            But nevertheless I went to the site to see what its about. I searched for the new Bring Me The Horizon album (There Is A Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There is A Heaven, Let's Keep It A Secret) and there it was! I was quite surprised as any music I buy I pretty have have to order through Take 2. Plus it was reasonably priced (R100 for the whole album). Individual tracks cost R8, and the album has 12 tracks so, naturally it was cheaper to buy the whole album.
            u need to get yr school fees back ?

            i use this site , its excellent and the range is extrmely broad....reminds me i still have credit there ?
              IceCreamMan wrote:
              doc-phil wrote:
              But nevertheless I went to the site to see what its about. I searched for the new Bring Me The Horizon album (There Is A Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There is A Heaven, Let's Keep It A Secret) and there it was! I was quite surprised as any music I buy I pretty have have to order through Take 2. Plus it was reasonably priced (R100 for the whole album). Individual tracks cost R8, and the album has 12 tracks so, naturally it was cheaper to buy the whole album.
              u need to get yr school fees back ?
              :-[ haha my bad... i got an A for accounting in matric!! Good thing I went into law tho ? I think I got confused with some other albums that I looked at which cost R80 in total.
              BMU wrote: Downloading 1st album now, seems fine except this:
              doc-phil wrote: They just need to sort out the individual track downloading thing...
              They have got to fix that.

              Does the Ovi Player perhaps offer one-click album downloads? I haven't bothered installing the bloatware, but I will if it can do that...
              I was thinking the same thing... not really keen on installing the Ovi player.. but I guess I'll have to if I don't wanna spend my life watching individual tracks download. I'll install and see if it allows one click album downloads.

                3 months later
                Just for the record, the Ovi player does allow one click album downloads. And hasn't seemed to mess anything up either. I feared something incomprehensibly stupid like songs get locked to the Ovi player or something. Nothing like that, still totally DRM free.

                I'm liking this service a lot, I bet they like me too, they're getting a lot of my money. ?
                  Lucky I boarded the EMusic bus before it left South Africa but this looks like it's got some interesting oddities tucked in there... thanks for reminding me it's around!
                    Yeah I cancelled emusic then found I couldn't rejoin. Not that I'd be that desperate to rejoin anyway.
                      BMU wrote: Yeah I cancelled emusic then found I couldn't rejoin. Not that I'd be that desperate to rejoin anyway.
                      Yep, they really fell down a month ago when some major labels joined, forced a rule rewrite, end result a lot of indie labels quit... ☹
                      It's also moved to a $ instead of credit mode and suddenly some artists are far more expensive than others ☹
                      But, that said, I still find some really cool bands on a monthly basis!
                        Jack Flash Jr wrote:
                        BMU wrote: Yeah I cancelled emusic then found I couldn't rejoin. Not that I'd be that desperate to rejoin anyway.
                        Yep, they really fell down a month ago when some major labels joined, forced a rule rewrite, end result a lot of indie labels quit... ☹
                        It's also moved to a $ instead of credit mode and suddenly some artists are far more expensive than others ☹
                        But, that said, I still find some really cool bands on a monthly basis!
                        I'm glad this topic was bumped up. I heard about the Nokia/Ovi music store, but I was always told you needed a Nokia phone to use it and it was restricted to playing the music on the phone. Glad that's not the case, and I think I'll be using the service.
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