I just signed up for this - it's awesome - I think Yahoo have something similar. For $9.99 a month you can listen to practically ever album ever released from just released to decades old.

It's only "practically every album" if your music tastes are the same as everybody else's. There is an enormous amount of music I have that one will never find in a record album.

I'm with Nap;
Much of the music I enjoy comes from independent labels, I'd be skeptical about their "massive library" that only comes from the Big Four.

they have 2million songs - that's a lot. It's a lot more than just 4 labels - there are tons of independant labels.

there are some things they don't have - like the beatles, although I think they've just agreed to go online.

There is an enormous amount of music I have that one will never find in a record album. - why doesn't that suprise me...

How does it compare with the other on-line music services? (Napster, Rhapsody, Virgin, Yahoo!, etc.)

they have 2million songs - that's a lot. It's a lot more than just 4 labels

Two million songs is a whole lot of crap. How much of that do you think is gospel/folk/latin/easy listening? I don't want to infect my computer with AOL software to get all the latest Wendy Bagwell hits.

I'm pretty sure that most of the "labels" you speak of are actually paper shops set up by the other four for marketing reasons.

I'm pretty sure that most of the "labels" you speak of are actually paper shops set up by the other four for marketing reasons.

Actually the Big Four (SonyBMG, EMI, Warner, Universal) control roughly 70% of the world's record labels, due to extreme amounts of mergers, buy-outs, or set up as what you described as "paper shops." So most labels in existence are exactly that.

How much of that do you think is gospel/folk/latin/easy listening?

I'll do my best to not think about it.

Two million songs is a whole lot of crap. How much of that do you think is gospel/folk/latin/easy listening? I don't want to infect my computer with AOL software to get all the latest Wendy Bagwell hits.

I'm pretty sure that most of the "labels" you speak of are actually paper shops set up by the other four for marketing reasons.

There is no AOL software - it's all web based, you don't install anything.

I think even for your egotistical tastes - 2 million songs is plenty. I doubt in fact you are so musically counter culture as you claim to be. I would place you as a secret Britney spears fan actually.

I looked at Yahoo & it's crap - you install software & the interface is garbage.

I'm not even counter-culture. That would be emo, goth, indie music. I listen to lots of music that comes from Japan, or just random stuff that I find on the Internet. And for the few mainstream artists I listen to, (like Britney Spears, she's a great artist I swear!) Bittorrent works just fine.

It isn't Britney Spears. I am a secret Aqua fan. I also listen to Vanessa Carlton from time to time.

Bittorrent = stealing. That's fine if that's what yr into. I'd rather pay 9.99 a month and not waste my time trawling the net for illegal downloads and have the benefit of getting all the new releases and see related artists etc,

Waste time? It takes me at most a minute to find whatever I need. New releases aren't worth the time it takes to listen to them half the time, and if you need related artists, there is always allmusic.com, along with last.fm.

Nap, do you have a Last.fm?