eMusic free trial

[meandthesea]

Anyone tried this? (The "free 50 day trial")is it genuine, no catches, jsut cancel without a hassle and keep yiur music?

[meandthesea]

ANYONE

[Boseafus]

I would like to know the same thing. I saw this site as well and wanted to know if it was legit or not. Don't really want to put in my info and then get billed....


Bose

[brodebec]

I used the 50 free trial, and the cancellation process was easy!

However after cancelling, a month later I rejoined as emusic.com has a great range of indie music, and the way it is set up makes it really easy to find out about new music as well.

Plus the mp3's are not at all encrypted, so they can be used in your ipod, burned to CD as many times as you want, PLUS if for some reason you lose your computer or mp3s they keep a track of what you have downloaded, and you can redownload everything as many times as you want totally for free!

I know it sounds like I work for them (haha) but being from Australia there is a severe lack of good sites we can access to legally download mp3's, since itunes is neglecting us at the moment. So emusic.com comes thoroughly recommended by me!

[meandthesea]

thanks, all I needed to know!

[Boseafus]

Thanks so much for pointing me to this site. It is great. I agree that it doesn't have many "mainstream" bands but that is fine with me. Here are just a few of the bands that I found on the site an have d/l from:


Pixies
Elliot Smith (even the new album)
Pedro the Lion
Pinback
Pavement
Alkaline Trio
Badly Drawn Boy
Camper Van Bethoven
Dashboard Confessional
Dropkick Murphies
Echo and the Bunnymen
The Hives
Love and Rockets
Madness
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Peter Murphy
Bauhaus
Skatalites
SuperDrag
Teenage Fanclub
Violent Femmes
Tom Waits
Paul Westerberg
The Weakerthans
Rancid

[EachNoteSecure]

Originally posted by brodebec
I used the 50 free trial, and the cancellation process was easy!

However after cancelling, a month later I rejoined as emusic.com has a great range of indie music, and the way it is set up makes it really easy to find out about new music as well.

Plus the mp3's are not at all encrypted, so they can be used in your ipod, burned to CD as many times as you want, PLUS if for some reason you lose your computer or mp3s they keep a track of what you have downloaded, and you can redownload everything as many times as you want totally for free!

I know it sounds like I work for them (haha) but being from Australia there is a severe lack of good sites we can access to legally download mp3's, since itunes is neglecting us at the moment. So emusic.com comes thoroughly recommended by me!

I agree, Emusic is a good source, I used the trial, got my songs and cancelled. Wish I could afford to stay a member.....

[siisgood00]

Emusic trial is awesome! Search for this guy Mark Adams. His album is awesome especially the song "Jazz That Funk."

Oh, and one cheap little secret: If you have 2 credit cards and 2 email accounts you can jimmy out TWO free emusic trials.

[meandthesea]

so you keep your songs

[bdb]

Search around a bit, and you can find links that will get you a trial with 100 free songs!

I did that early last year, and have since signed up for a few months (getting ready to do another). The price for a month is relatively cheap, and yes you get to download (and keep) the music. You can sign up for a month, cancel, then sign up for another later as new music is added (which unfortunately is very slowly). Of course, its no longer free at that point. But its legal, and the artists DO get paid. Most of the music is VBR at around 200kbps, so the quality is higher than most pay sites (including iTunes).

Its a good place to find great music you've never heard of!

A few more recommendations:

ROCK
- Jesse Harris & the Fernandos
- Lemon Jelly
- Interpol
- Badly Drawn Boy (Hour of the Bewilderbeast is one of my favorite albums ever; I bought the CD before finding it on eMusic)
- The Decemberists
- Yo La Tengo (its not Mexican music)
- A Girl Called Eddy
- Jenifer Jackson
- Owen
- Ian Anderson (formerly of Jethro Tull)
- Elliot Smith

ELECTRONIC & DOWNTEMPO
- Lemon Jelly (Lost Horizons is great!)
- The Future Sound of London
- Tortoise
- The Merkin Dream
- Orchestral Superstring
- Tommy Guerrero
- Flunk
- Lanterna

AMBIENT - extreme chillout!
- Deuter
- Phil Thornton
- Terry Oldfield
- David & Steve Gordon

(the cool thing about these last ones is that some of these individual songs are 20 to 30 minutes long...for the same price!)

[meandthesea]

I just did one

They have pedro the lion one of my favorite bands, but I have all of daves albums so I didnt get anythign of theirs.

I did however get music from,
Elliot smith
Ray charles
ella fitzgerald
louis armstrong
The Pixies
The Features
Dashboard
Denison Witmer (Accoustic singer songwriter from pa. who is AMAZING)

[Boseafus]

What's crazy, is that I was expecting to DL the 100 and dumping the account but I'm going month to month (40 songs for $10.00).

Bose

[jhollington]

I've been an eMusic subscriber since they first came online about four years ago. I've been very happy with the selection that they provide -- although there's very little "mainstream" stuff, there's a lot of great independant material, and they've got a huge Jazz collection.

I don't download from them as much anymore, but I've kept my account active since I got on the bandwagon back when they offered an "unlimited" account for $10/month, and they've been good enough to grandfather me in on this. This is a big advantage to getting in on some of these services when they're first getting started (I have a similarly good deal with Audible, as I've maintained my account there for about four years as well).

[FallN]

The selection for me is poor. I'm more of a "mainstream" music lover, but they do have some harder to find, indie stuff. And I have about 10 more downloads on my Free trail and can't seem to find anything I want to download from them, LOL!

I got so "desperate" I downloaded a "Rainsticks" track... pretty bad. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to stay on a eMusic. Oh, well... in the mean time, free legal music is free legal music! ;)

[Boseafus]

Originally posted by FallN
can't seem to find anything I want to download from them, LOL!

I got so "desperate" I downloaded a "Rainsticks" track... pretty bad. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to stay on a eMusic. Oh, well... in the mean time, free legal music is free legal music! ;)

Take your time. Look at some of the suggestions above or look at their most "popular" list on emusic. Very easy to go from a "mainstream" guy to an "not so mainstream" guy.

BTW...there are actaully way more mainstream artists on that site than I thought! Just Downloaded the new Ray Charles this week (it was released after his death). It was going for 13.00+ at my local stores.

Bose

[meandthesea]

Genius Loves company? I alrady have the cd but I jsut didnt see it...oh well

Yeah I listen to mostly indie rock and old jazz but they really are missing alot of indie stuff.

As far as jazz they ahev evryine from ray charles and ella fitzgerald to louis armstrong