I recently lost a 1500+ CD collection. But still being a music junkie, I had to find a way to replace it. Rather than buying it all again slowly over time I have been trying out some of the online music services. And I have found Yahoo's Unlimited program to be quite good, really for my uses, excellent.
For $60 a year or $6.99 a month they have about half the albums I look up in their entirety. That includes new releases they day they come out as well as albums going back 50 years or more. You can play these songs streaming over the Internet, but even better you can download them as MP3s to your computer and even play them when you are not connected to the Interent. You can also transfer them to certain MP3 players. Both the players I own (Rio Carbon and Creative Zen Micro) are covered, while Ipods are not.
I listen to call kinds of different music, so I am amazed at all the different albums they have available. Since they don't have everyone it will never entirely replace CDs or downloading MP3s, but I have to say I am very impressed with what is offered for the price. I have looked into the business model and Yahoo is pretty much only breakeven on this so they aren't making any money, but are getting more people to use a Yahoo product.
I think anyone who buys even a couple CDs a month would get a lot out of this service.
For $60 a year or $6.99 a month they have about half the albums I look up in their entirety. That includes new releases they day they come out as well as albums going back 50 years or more. You can play these songs streaming over the Internet, but even better you can download them as MP3s to your computer and even play them when you are not connected to the Interent. You can also transfer them to certain MP3 players. Both the players I own (Rio Carbon and Creative Zen Micro) are covered, while Ipods are not.
I listen to call kinds of different music, so I am amazed at all the different albums they have available. Since they don't have everyone it will never entirely replace CDs or downloading MP3s, but I have to say I am very impressed with what is offered for the price. I have looked into the business model and Yahoo is pretty much only breakeven on this so they aren't making any money, but are getting more people to use a Yahoo product.
I think anyone who buys even a couple CDs a month would get a lot out of this service.
