- BuyMusic
BuyMusic is a paid
online music store run byBuy.com ."Statistics as of April 2004"
*Pricing: Cost per download (typically $0.99 per single, $9.99 per album)
*Platform(s):Windows 98 and later
*Downloading: Yes
*Burning/Copying: Yes
*Streaming: No
*Radio: No
*Format(s):Windows Media
*Digital Rights Management: Yes
*Preview: 30 seconds
*Trial: N/A
*Catalog: 540,000 songs
*Features:The store was launched in
July 2003 with 300,000 tracks available [http://www.drmwatch.com/ocr/article.php/3094411] and was designed to compete withiTunes Music Store because at the time of launch, Apple's store was limited to Macintosh users, and BuyMusic was the first to offer paiddownloads to non-Mac users. Reportedly, the site has claimed to be "The World’s Largest Download Music Store." Unlike iTunes Music Store, the price of each song ranges from 80cents to 1.99dollars .The site used to have extreme limitations on what users could browse. It would not allow anyone not using
Microsoft Windows andInternet Explorer 5.0 or greater to even view the songs available. Even users that met the stated requirements could encounter trouble--clicking the main "click here" link routinely crashed some user's IE 5.5 browsers.Before the spring
2004 integration with its parent site, Buy.com [http://www.spymac.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=69700] , users that did not meet the stated requirements couldn't even accessstatic content such aspress releases . Since the integration, all users can access all of buy.com.The site has provided no
statistics regarding the number ofcustomers and downloads, yetScott Blum , the founder andCEO of BuyMusic, noted "We're nowhere near Apple's iTunes Music Store numbers." in aDecember 2003 interview .External links
* [http://www.buymusic.com Official Website] .
* [http://www.mp3fiesta.com/?partner=3134&subaccount=wBuyMusic Similar Website] .
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