<![CDATA[Anyone want to buy a music subscription service? Anyone? Anyone? - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Anyone want to buy a music subscription service? Anyone? Anyone? - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Anyone want to buy a music subscription service? Anyone? Anyone?]]> Yahoo has purchased so many innovative things over the years and then slowly killed them (unlike Microsoft that just puts a bullet through their heads right away).

I had, at various times: Yahoo as an ISP, pager service, movie content, web hosting service, online fax, e-mail... and lesser things. In every case no sooner had they suckered me into paying for some advanced features than the service would be discontinued or pawned off to a "partner" that stopped supporting it.

Yahoo management has about the attention span of a gnat. Their technology on the other hand... well it sorta sucks too.

I really hope they merge with Microsoft. The companies make such a nice couple.

macbeach

]]> <![CDATA[Anyone want to buy a music subscription service? Anyone? Anyone?]]> I subscribe to the service but I haven't actively used it for months. Not because of the DRM issues, but because I find their service difficult to navigate. It takes me a long time to find anything of interest due to the lack of a powerful search or tagging.

Seems like they stopped innovating on the software post-acquisition and just concentrated on rebranding it.

Winston Smith

]]> <![CDATA[Anyone want to buy a music subscription service? Anyone? Anyone?]]> Yahoo made a brilliant move with the Launch.com acquisition, but then the "not invented here" mentality kicked in and that stupid subscription service was the only thing visitors could find at music.yahoo.com for the longest time. With the death of subscription music you can finally find the "create your own station" button (which brings up the old Launch.com service). The Launch guys figured out ratings and recommendations waaaay back when. The service is excellent at choosing music for you. I just can't believe it took Yahoo this many years to realize it should be their primary music offering.

WagCurious

]]> <![CDATA[Anyone want to buy a music subscription service? Anyone? Anyone?]]> It might be the DRM, or it might be the 50% price increase they imposed after year 1.

tokemak

]]> <![CDATA[Anyone want to buy a music subscription service? Anyone? Anyone?]]> I like Y! Music Unlimited too. Last spring I signed up for 2 years of their to go service for the price of 1 year. I hope they don't kill it.

eporter

]]> <![CDATA[Anyone want to buy a music subscription service? Anyone? Anyone?]]> I like it too. It's a little clunky when it's loading, but once you've got it up and running it's pretty impressive.

ellswrth

]]> <![CDATA[Anyone want to buy a music subscription service? Anyone? Anyone?]]> Hmm. I actually really like Y! Music Unlimited. Must be only me.

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