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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Wednesday, July 23, 2003Day two with Buymusic.comAs the Buymusic.com saga hits day two, a few chinks appear in the armor of the Windows team. First, one of the best features of iTunes (and I've now downloaded 157 songs from the service) is that Apple lets you copy songs to up to three Macs (though the process is not automated or easy); the best part is you can assign and de-assign machines to the three-machine list, which is handy if you sell or upgrade systems. On Windows, using Buymusic.com, we have nothing like that. In fact, all of the songs I've donwloaded, and most of the songs I've seen on the site, only let you use them on a single PC. So when you copy music to a second PC (like a laptop), you're out of luck and it will not play. There is no great way to get around this, beyond burning the songs to CD and copying them over that way, and while the results so far are satisfactory, it's not elegant. But the big problem is that Buymusic.com offers no (obvious at least) way to change your license. And that's a problem: I change my main PC at least once a year, and that means my purchased songs (about a dozen so far) will be useless once I switch machines. I suspect that they have a way around this, or will, but so far I haven't seen anything about this problem on the site. I'll keep looking and maybe send in a query... [ Posted at 10:21 AM | Permalink ]
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