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Old 16-09-2003, 20:25
Rolnikov
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Does anyone else use MSN Music Club?

Overall I've found it very good, with an increasing number of songs on there, and I've tried a lot of interesting stuff I wouldn't have done when buying albums at full price - like U-Ziq, Yo La Tengo, Calexico, Mr Scruff, Dizzee Rascal, Neu and Roots Manuva.

I get all the songs as what they call "temporary downloads" - for about 10p you can download a song and play it on the pc, as long as you are a subscriber to the service, but not burn it to cd. It suits me fine, since it's cheap, legal and I play all my music off the pc anyway.

The problem I'm having is that after one month the songs need to be relicensed, but it it isn't happening automatically - I get a pop-up in media player warning that a license is required and that WMP has to visit the content provider's web page - at the bottom is the question "Are you sure you want to open the Web page to obtain the license?" - and I have to choose Yes for each song - fine when I had 20 songs from them, but now there's about 1000 and I've almost given up playing them.

I asked for help from MSN Music Club, and they said they were aware of the problem and were planning to change software imminently - but that was weeks ago.

I was wondering if anyone here had had the same problem, and if they'd managed to solve it.
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Old 21-03-2004, 10:38
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Not much progress with MSN Music Club, then.

Six months later, the re-licensing problem is still there - as irritating as ever!! - and the excellent, cheap 'temporary download' option (effectively a year's licence for 10p) has been removed. Now you have to buy a 'permanent download' at between 99p and £1.50.

There's a 'spend £40, get £40 free' offer on at the moment, but compared to the far better deal that was withdrawn, that's pretty crummy.

Good thread. I wonder why Rolnikov never got a reply at the time.
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Old 22-03-2004, 09:41
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Hi Ruby

The only way I found to deal with it was to leave WMP playing at x16 speed with a book pressing down the Y button, so everything got relicensed after five hours or so.

Like you, I'm gutted that the temporary download was removed, but I thought it would happen eventually. Still, I can't help thinking it would be better for the health and diversity of the music industry for ten different acts to get £1 each than it will be for one act to get £10.
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