Comments on: Mojo Filter vs. Yahoo! Music Unlimited, November, 2005 to January, 2006

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By: Yahoo! Music Blog » Mojo Filter vs. Yahoo! Music Unlimited, February, 2006

Yahoo! Music Blog » Mojo Filter vs. Yahoo! Music Unlimited, February, 2006 — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:27:46 +0000

[...] For those who haven’t played this game with me before, this is a monthly feature where I take my favorite music magazine, UK’s Mojo, and look for every new album they review in Yahoo! Music Unlimited (Yahoo!’s $5/month all-you-can-eat music subscription service). The point is two-fold: a) To look for holes and incosistencies in the Yahoo! Music catalog, and b) To find some great music — I put every album I find into a playlist to share with you, dear reader, so you can sample tons of music (always more than 20 hours), all thought worthy of print by the editors at Mojo. For previous months and playlists, please start with this megapost. There’s some interesting conclusions this month, so read on. [...]

By: hatedigits

hatedigits — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:07:04 +0000

Let me edit that some.

Warp, for example, decided they didn’t want to be a part of a $5/month subscription service (too cheap, they believe)

Ian,

I assume you’re saying they felt the $5 reflected badly on the label – made them look like an inferior product. Do you know if anyone has turned down Y!MU/Musicnet because they felt their compensation for the subscription service wasn’t enough?

Speaking of that, to what extent are we supporting the labels/artists when we listen to music via subscription services? For example, at some point if I listen to an album enough times or authorize the song on my portable for enough months, will the artist/label receive the same amount of profit as they would have if I had walked into a store and purchased the physical CD? (And if so, what is that point?)

Thanks,
hatedigits

By: hatedigits

hatedigits — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:49:25 +0000

Warp, for example, decided they didn’t want to be a part of a $5/month subscription service (too cheap, they believe)

Ian,

Do you know if anyone has turned down Y!MU because they felt the compensation for the subscription service wasn’t enough?

Speaking of that, to what extent are we supporting the labels/artists when we listen to music via subscription services? For example, if I listen to an album 200 times on Y!MU is the label/artist getting more or less money from me than if I bought the physical CD in the stores?

Thanks,
hatedigits

By: bmbass3

bmbass3 — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:49:35 +0000

Ian,
I have to agree with Mr. Xcitement, the current relicensing method requires way too much time. Because so many songs are in the library one month, but removed the next, it takes hours to relicense my entire music collection. Please change the relicense method to continue when finding a “fail” and then present a list of songs that failed at the end. When I asked you about this many months ago, you stated that the reason for stopping was that a relicensing failure was rare, therefore the decision to abort. The problem is that the failure is not rare, but often, so please change the program. Thanks!

By: Digital Audio Insider

Digital Audio Insider — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:39:30 +0000

Yahoo (and iTunes) vs. Mojo Filter…

One bit of inside information: As mentioned in the post, Yahoo works with a “middleman” (MusicNet) for some, if not all, of its digital content. The royalty rate paid by MusicNet to labels and distributors is only .02 cents per stream, compared to th…

By: Mr. Xcitement

Mr. Xcitement — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:08:01 +0000

Ian,

Sorry for ranting about the licensing issue and glad to here you will look into The Fiery Furnaces. I am glad to have found your blog and appreciate your playlists, will need to try them out I have been pleased over all with Yahoo and the YMU subscription. It just seems that more and more the recording industry is getting out of hand with what they consider fair use and it feels like the ones getting the short end of the stick are the ones that play by the rules and do not steal music.

BTW one pain point that the licensing issue brings to the front for me is managing when an artist is no longer available or has changed to 30sec/buy only. This has caused me hours of fighting with my library to find the songs that are no longer licensed and remove them from the playlist that is syncing to my portable (Creative Zen micro) and clean them of the portable as well (to remove the files from the zen, it is sometimes easier to reformat and resync) sometimes this can take an hour or more of my time.