Subscription Music question (napster)

[RecycledPast]

Does anyone know if you subscribe for a month, fill up your MP3 player and cancel the subscription can you still listen to the songs on the MP3 player as long as you don't update it?

[jbox]

Question: Are they actually MP3 files or not? If they are then you'll keep them, which is why most places do *not* provide MP3, but some Super Absorbant String DRM.

[crashwg]

On this page here it states,

Build your music library and keep the music you downloaded from Napster as long as you subscribe

[JoyMonkey]

As far as I can tell, Napster provides WMV files with a 31 day expiration. You could always 'dub' them into eternal MP3 format using Winamp, but it would take your computer about a month for 40gigs of music.

[Sephroth57]

why would anyone use those horrible subscription services....   bittorrent + limewire = anything you could ever want

[jbox]

why would anyone use those horrible subscription services....

Yes, some people act a bit strange strange about stealing other people's work. 

[gprime]

Personally I'd rather pay for each song so I get to keep it, rather than paying a monthly fee to rent my music (like in Napster).

I think I am the only person in the world who doesn't use their computer for music (total number of MP3s on my computer after having it for 15 months => 0).

[allroy1975]

why would anyone use those horrible subscription services....

Yes, some people act a bit strange strange about stealing other people's work. 

I never felt like writing or playing music was work.  and anything we recorded I was happy to give away.  I've found a lot of bands that I would have NEVER heard of by "stealing" their "work".  Then I go to their shows and buy T Shirts from the band themselves.  So the BAND gets my $$.

Oh...or by "stealing other people's work" do you mean the guy at the record company who listens to the band singns them and exploits them?

I don't know...$15 - $20 for a CD?  who's stealing from whom?  if it cost me just a LITTLE more than it cost them to make the CD I'd be happy to pay.  But christ...I like a LOT of music and I'm not about to spend $100 a week on CDs.  I have REAL bills to pay.  Plus...what if I want to check out Hank Williams III because he's coming to town and i've never heard his stuff.  should I have to go out and spend $17.99 to hear something that's pretty good, but not something I'm going to listen to more than a few times?  The way new music is cranked out these days...how much time do you really have to listen to this new record or that new one?  Plus....everything that's good I bought 15 years ago.

Holy crap i'm a grumpy old man....

Sorry for the rant.

Allroy

[jbox]

Someone asked a question, someone gave an answer. If that floats your boat go for it, but the best way to stop the supermarket from "stealing" your money isn't shoplifting, it's buying from someone else. 

I believe in "open standards", which means I bite people who send me Word Documents each time until they either give up or switch to PDF/RTF. I don't just steal a copy of Office and say 'but I'm not supporting the Big Bad Micro$oft Empire!' 

[Trenchbroom]

I believe you can only d/l the music to specific portable media players that have DRM software installed.  Every 30 days you would have to sync your player with the Napster online software so it can confirm that you still have a subscription.  If you don't do it in 30 days then the music stops playing.

No way to turn the protected songs to open MP3 either.  Which means that yes, you would have to subscribe to maintain your collection.

[shmokes]

www.allofmp3.com

For the price of a Napster subscription you can buy 10 full albums a month in 192 kps MP3 format.