{"id":314,"date":"2003-11-11T09:20:40","date_gmt":"2003-11-11T14:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/comparing-music-sites\/"},"modified":"2003-11-11T09:20:40","modified_gmt":"2003-11-11T14:20:40","slug":"comparing-music-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/comparing-music-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"comparing music sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the nice people at ehomeupgrade.com have put together a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehomeupgrade.com\/archives\/article167.php?foo=Buying%20Music%20Online%20the%20Smart%20Way%2011--09\" class=\"broken_link\">concise<\/a> comparison of the online music offerings.  i&#8217;m going even more concise:<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<th>service<\/p>\n<th>price\/track<\/p>\n<th>price\/album<\/p>\n<th>format<\/p>\n<th>library<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>itunes<\/p>\n<td>$.99<\/p>\n<td>$9.99<\/p>\n<td>AAC 128k<\/p>\n<td>400, 000<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>buymusic<\/p>\n<td>$.79-$1.14<\/p>\n<td>$7.95-$12.95<\/p>\n<td>WMA 128k<\/p>\n<td>315,000<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>musicmatch<\/p>\n<td>$.99<\/p>\n<td>$9.99<\/p>\n<td>AAC 160k<\/p>\n<td>200,000<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>napster 2<\/p>\n<td>$.99<\/p>\n<td>$9.95<\/p>\n<td>WMA 128k<\/p>\n<td>500,000<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>musicnet<\/p>\n<td>$.99<\/p>\n<td>n\/a<\/p>\n<td>WMA 132k<\/p>\n<td>400,000<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>rhapsody<\/p>\n<td>$.79<\/p>\n<td>n\/a<\/p>\n<td>WMA 128k<\/p>\n<td>400,000<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>in other words, it&#8217;s the same deal everywhere.  there&#8217;s about as much variety here as there is in the retail cd packages from different labels.  i don&#8217;t see a lot of innovation going on, plenty of room to do new things&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the nice people at ehomeupgrade.com have put together a concise comparison of the online music offerings. i&#8217;m going even more concise: service price\/track price\/album format library itunes $.99 $9.99 AAC 128k 400, 000 buymusic $.79-$1.14 $7.95-$12.95 WMA 128k 315,000 musicmatch $.99 $9.99 AAC 160k 200,000 napster 2 $.99 $9.95 WMA 128k 500,000 musicnet $.99 n\/a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}