Dear Matthew, I have used EMusic for a few months. I loved it! It could be a template for a very sucessful web based music retailing service. But in execution their managment has made a few serious mistakes. EMusic touts a very smart 'privacy policy' , but in operation they failed. I have my own domain and setup a unique email address for my EMusic account; it automagically forwards to my local email. This address has never been used for any other purpose. During the last month or two I have been getting more and more PORNO solicitation emails sent to that EMusic account email addr. They have never replied to my complaints. The only other emails that come to that email addr are from EMusic. Just today I went to their web site home page and found that they have abandoned the web standard way of downloading and switched to a closed source propriatary "download manager". When I attempted to use their d/l mgr it hung my XP system. Now whenever I try to use that d/l mgr it hangs the sys again. I have notified them of their failure to live up to our agreement, and my cancelation of their service. Very sad, it looked like the future of online music, but they had to go with closed source, propriatary, system crashing code. I wish it had worked. PeterB p.s. in the past we have seen these closed source "music managers" contain 'snooping' apps and worse On Thursday 01 May 2003 05:49 pm, Matthew Johnson wrote:
Anyone else using this service?
Everyone else getting Segfaults on startup?
http://primo.mp3.com/gen/188/dlm2
http://www.emusic.com/help/download.html
I think it was using wxWindows...Not sure :(.
Matt