#8

I remember it being hard to give up because I had a good deal that was no longer on offer.

#9

I just went to cancel but got roped in by the offer of £25 extra credit if I stayed subscribed.
Couldn’t put my finger on what seemed worse, didn’t realise they’d lost so many labels - having said that I still found some spectacular stuff to download with that £25.
Worth checking stuff out on Editions Mego and Ideologic Organ if you haven’t already, OP.

#10

I’m the same as most people have already mentioned - I’m on an old scheme which is still super cheap. I think I pay £140ish annually, and then get 75 downloads a month. It’s definitely harder to find albums now, but I’ll keep with it - I just need to search a bit more. If they cancelled my subscription rate that I’m on at the moment I doubt I would use it again at the normal rate though.

Albums on eMusic from this year that I’ve loved:

Setec - Atrial Flutters (or Raise Yr Hand If Yr Afraid)
Jonathan Bree - Sleepwalking
Slow Skies - Realign
David Kitt - Yous
1921 - In My Veins
Sin Fang, Sóley & Örvar Smárason - Team Dreams
Typhoon - Offerings

#11

i had a couple of free trials of it about a decade ago, got some good stuff for free and pissed off. my friend kept using it for a while and used to discover interesting stuff as a result, i think it’s great how cheap it is per album but i don’t really like the idea of HAVING to buy stuff every month and far prefer and as-and-when policy, particularly as i like to buy lots of physical music.

do they still do free trials? could go another maybe…

#12

wow, just having a little browse of their catalogue by searching some artists, as i’ve often done out of curiosity. they used to have a pretty decent library but it seems to have been stripped VERY bare. that’s a shame. are they on a proper decline?

#13

They updated their site about six months ago, and restructured how labels upload their music to it. Sounds like a whole bunch of them just didn’t bother coming back. It’s been a noticeable and rapid decline since then…

But hey, Blockchain will save it, right?

#14

Same here…used to love it and use regularly in mid-late 00s. I still like to buy music but would rather buy on vinyl (sometimes cd) then just some files when 95% of stuff is on google* play music (which is now tied in to my uploaded collection)…

*don’t feel the best about supporting google, mind

#15

Used it for a few years. That was my main “bridge” between buying physical music and things like Spotify and Google Music. Emusic was good. Got into a lot if bands. A fair enough price for what it was but I’m not bothered owing mp3s. I’m fine with the Google Play Music model.

#16

Having a few months of hoovering some old stuff up then it’s a “cancel” for me - similar to the above I have an old sub so get 50 tracks for 12 quid, so it will be a shame to lose it. I kinda liked its underdog status and being forced to discover new music or enrich my knowledge of older stuff, but there’s just not enough new stuff to keep me there when Spotify et al exist.

#17

Was just gonna get the last few Fugazi albums I don’t have, and they’ve all disappeared, says it all

#18

Had £10 left before my account updated today. Tried almost every album in my wishlist, but they have pretty much all been removed. That was the last straw. Feel a bit sad, but have now cancelled my account. Fair well eMusic.

#19

Thinking of cancelling mine after the next refresh, I used to look forward to ‘emusic day’ to get a clutch of new albums but now it’s just a chore trying to use up my allowance.

#20

There seems to be another cull of albums/labels, and now the world renowned Daddy Lumba has taken over the eMusic top 10 chart:

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#21

They persuaded me to put my account on hold for 3 months. I check in every so often to see if things are improving. They’re clearly not.

#22

I have an annual subscription which renews in February. Can’t even tell if they’ll still be going by then, but it might be best to stop my membership then. Will hopefully manage to use up my downloads each month, but who knows.

#23

I pay monthly and when I went to cancel my account was offered a free tenner and a suggestion I put account on hold (which I did for 3 months). Will reassess whether it’s worth continuing then.

Noticed quite a bit of mid-period Low has appeared recently - no good for me as I’ve already got it all - but perhaps a limited cause for optimism as good newb(/old) stuff is arriving.

#24

I was also persuaded to put my account on hold but at the moment I doubt I’ll be reactivating it. Can’t say I’ve missed it these last couple of months, it was getting quite a pain to find anything worth using my credits on!

#25

This is a bit of a shame, really - used to rate emusic highly but there’s just nothing on there, is there?

#26

The label I work for pulled its entire back catalogue (approx. 300 releases) from eMusic last week, as they haven’t fulfilled payment or reporting obligations to our distributor for a long time.

Seems like the distributors of other small labels are doing the same as well, so can’t see the amount of music eMusic has to offer improving any time soon.

#27

If they’re not paying labels/distributors then they are clearly not long for this world.

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