Technology Nerd » digital right management http://tnerd.com (Technology, as it happens, When it happens!) Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:27:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 We7-Listen to Great Free Online Music http://tnerd.com/2008/09/05/we7-listen-to-great-free-online-download-music/ http://tnerd.com/2008/09/05/we7-listen-to-great-free-online-download-music/#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:30:37 +0000 Vivek http://tnerd.com/?p=1482 Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul is what Plato famously said about music. We all love music, can’t live with out it. And hence we are in constant search for music. If not music itself but surely resources where we can find or listen or download music. There has been a lot of talk and discussion about DRM () and Piracy of music.

We are not going to discuss much on this controversial issue. Instead we are going to focus our attention on a service that offers you to listen to online, download music to your computer and create your favorite playlists. The service is called as . A UK based company which started with 30 tracks in 2007 and now has over 170,000 subscribers and 4 million downloads.

Let’s get into what the site talks about the service it offers:

is an outstanding destination to listen, share and discover music for FREE, legally and safely. You choose the music you want to hear and play full tracks and albums online, on-demand at anytime. We also offer you the ability to buy the music you love in high downloads which you can play on iPods and most other digital players.

provides a simple tariff

  1. Listen, discover and share music streams online – free (supported by advertising).
  2. Buy the music you love with high downloads to play anytime on iPods and most digital players (normally 320 kbps, with some at 256 kbps).
  3. Discover music with free ad-supported MP3 downloads on a selection of artists, albums and tracks (normally lower quality bit rate of 192 kbps).

If we look at the scenario and the business model everyone is a winner:

  • The users can listen to (supported by advertisements) or even buy the music
  • The artists have a place to show their work
  • The site provides the platform for users to get and for artists to display their work and get paid for it.
  • The advertisers get to reach the wide variety of audience.

The site might not be studded with the popular stars but there’s a great variety of great music. In no time I have become a big fan of this platform and have discovered artists which otherwise I would have missed.

If that was not enough, the site provides widgets for the bloggers to put on their site and pimp the site up for the readers of the blog. This gives great advantage to all the parties involved.

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