Recommended Music Services
Live365 - Rich grassroots radio
LAUNCHcast - Compelling personalized radio
Rhapsody - The "near-celestial" online jukebox
iTunes Music Store - Downloads for the pod-people
eMusic - Downloading for discovery
Musicmatch - A one-stop digital music store
Articles and News
Answer: When it forces you to make decisions about buying and owning music. When it's about ownership, not access.
29 May 2006
The eMusic message boards are buzzing over the addition of 4,000 recordings from the classical Naxos label.
13 November 2005
Users of the Firefox Web browser now have another reason to be happy. A flock of free plug-ins make it easy to search a growing collection of search engines direct from the Firefox search box.
6 November 2005
Too often, music services leave their users hanging. Poor technical support is the culprit.
28 August 2005
Opera buffs now have a treasure trove of facts, figures, and trivia to peruse online, thanks to the efforts of the Metropolitan Opera archivist Robert Tuggle.
21 August 2005
A reader is planning to buy a Dell DJ portable music player, and wanted to know what the difference is between these services, both owned by Yahoo.
21 August 2005
Rhapsody subscribers now have a new place to go to find and share playlists. The FIQL.com site, recently launched to facilitate playlist sharing, now offers playlists in Rhapsody format.
15 June 2005
Thanks to a helpful eMusic fan for cataloguing all the Jazz albums on eMusic that rate four stars in the Penguin Guide to Jazz (7th edition) and posting the list to the eMusic message boards.
31 May 2005
Yahoo's acquisition of Musicmatch has led to an unexpected benefit for Musicmatch On-Demand users: a price cut.
31 May 2005
Since Rhapsody and Yahoo's LAUNCHcast are two of my favorite services, it was with much anticipation that I tried the latest offerings from these key digital music franchises.
23 May 2005