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Early adopter bonus

EMusic is shifting to a priced (rather than download-token) model: a track used to be worth one “download credit”, now it’ll be worth 49 eurocents,1 with variable pricing of course the next step. I’ve been a member since 2005, and prices have risen several times in the interim. The nice thing is, those price hikes [...]

Mardi Gras.bb at eMusic

At last! The Mardi Gras.bb have appeared on eMusic. That is, they’ve shown up on the European site (they’re German, although you wouldn’t guess it from listening), with slightly different punctuation and case (I’m taking the regrettable .bb from their site — apparently it stands for “big band”) but the same glorious sound. The new [...]

Phishing eMusic customers?

I got an out-of-the-ordinary eMusic newsletter this month. It looks perfectly professional (although slightly different to the usual ones), but it’s from an address at emusic.chtah.com (the usual newsletters come from edmailbox.emusic.com). I’m quite sure the company eMusic owns the domain emusic.com, but anyone at all could register chtah.com and add a subdomain called emusic. [...]