It is nice but there are a couple of downsides to the Yahoo service: 1. You don't own the music, you just rent it. If you ever stop paying your $120 a year you lose access to every track you have every downloaded from them. $0.99 a song from iTunes might be more expensive but you end up with a file that you own. Now if you pay more for the Yahoo To Go Unlimited I think you can burn them to CDs but not really sure.
2. Windows only, so Mac or Linux users are you are screwed. This is because it uses Windows Media Player DRM. Which means you must use the current version of Windows Media player. That is reason enough for me to avoid the service like the plague. Worthwhile? Depends on the user. I know lots of people who like the Yahoo service. Myself, I prefer iTunes. But I don't buy that much music anyways. In the last few months I find myself spending my listening time with Podcasts and not music. On 12/27/05, Jim Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 12/27/2005 01:53 PM, Julian Zottl wrote: > >Awesome find Jim! So for 199/yr, you can download as much music as you > >want? How do they keep track of what computers/players you put it > >on? This could be very interesting... > > For $119 you get all the music in Yahoo's catalog or library, what ever you > want to call it. It is tracked via DRM of course. I believe it functions > somewhat like XP gets it's keys from hardware. I can use it simultaneously > on 3 boxes. If I want to use it on another box I would have to "deactivate" > one of the previous installs via the preferences. You can only use one > system to load up the mp3 player because the DRM licensed tracks for > portability will be generated via that computer so if you use two computers > you would have two different DRMed songs and only the last ones would work > or something like that. Just learning this stuff and "white paper" like > info isn't available. > > -- Brian
