Yahoo Introduces Competitor for iTunes 819
LadyDeath writes "After a year in development, Yahoo has launched its competitor to Apple's iTunes and Napster To Go, a subscription and download music service priced at only $4.99 per month. Tracks are offered in 192Kbps WMA, and can be transferred to portable devices. Perhaps most interesting to the Slashdot crowd is that the Yahoo! Music Engine is built on an open platform that facilitates plug-ins - both DLL and Web based. Podcasting and video playback plug-ins are already available." Update: 05/11 13:06 GMT by T : ian c rogers, formerly of Nullsoft, just led the build of the media player, and writes with information about "the the plugin architecture it supports as well as some of the 20 plugins that are already available for it.
I've posted my thoughts on why someone should or shouldn't use the Yahoo! Music Engine on my blog."
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(with apologies to The Register for nicking their standard Yahoo! joke)
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Right. I don't think the business model is very sound because the iPod is fairly entrenched. It's still a pretty attractive service if you don't have an iPod.
I can't think of any WMA players that would let me do that, or at least none that would let me do that easily.
Maybe not Firewire, but all the hard disk WMA players can do the same thing. I don't know about the battery life.
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So besides limiting the user on his computer, they can also get data on exactly how and when you use their products? You usually get a shiny Google Toolbar or a pack of smileys for giving away information like that.
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oh. wait a minute. you're a fucking idiot.
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