{"id":3297,"date":"2003-07-27T09:35:45","date_gmt":"2003-07-27T09:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3297"},"modified":"2003-07-27T09:35:45","modified_gmt":"2003-07-27T09:35:45","slug":"buymusiccom_woe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3297","title":{"rendered":"BuyMusic.com Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer of scriptygoddess.com writes about her (hellish) experiences with BuyMusic.com.  Here&#8217;s the first two (of many) problems she experienced:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>First problem.<\/strong> After you buy an album, you need to download it. Sure, I knew that. What I didn&#8217;t know is that you have to download EACH SONG INDIVIDUALLY. One click per song. With Two large sized albums with many songs on it &#8211; it can be just a LITTLE annoying.<\/p>\n<p>Ok. We&#8217;re compromising, right? I&#8217;ll suck it up and deal.<\/p>\n<p>After all the songs downloaded, I tried to play them. <strong>Second problem.<\/strong> Before each song plays &#8211; it has to download and verify your license. You can&#8217;t mulitple select a bunch and do this. You need to do this before EACH SONG will play. [Edited to add: &#8220;Verifing your license&#8221; means another window pops up that asks for your buymusic login and password&#8230; you enter it&#8230; it thinks awhile&#8230; it thinks some more&#8230; Then it comes back and says click &#8220;play&#8221; to actually play the song&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Ok. Getting a little annoyed here, but still willing to suck it up and deal. [scriptygoddess]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The whole experience sounds positively dreadful.  Especially when I compare it to my iTunes experience, where the biggest issue was the first day or so when the system was so overloaded by everyone going there.  Fortunately, I can&#8217;t even look over BuyMusic.com&#8217;s site because if you aren&#8217;t running IE on Windows it throws you at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buymusic.com\/ierequired.htm\">a nice ol &#8216;Fuck You&#8217; screen<\/a>.  You can&#8217;t even browse the site at all.  Nice and user friendly.<\/p>\n<p>And to end things off, here&#8217;s some <a href=\"http:\/\/stereoboy.org\/archives\/001993.php\">other BuyMusic.com tidbits from stereoboy.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer of scriptygoddess.com writes about her (hellish) experiences with BuyMusic.com. Here&#8217;s the first two (of many) problems she experienced: First problem. After you buy an album, you need to download it. Sure, I knew that. What I didn&#8217;t know is that you have to download EACH SONG INDIVIDUALLY. One click per song. With Two large [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}