There have been a couple of alterations at my favourite music downloading service over the last few days, one of which I don't really care about, but the other has been causing some minor headaches.
eMusic has launched an audiobook downloading service; separate from its music downloading service, but integrated into it's website. This is the part that I don't care about since I'm unlikely to start downloading audiobooks unless it includes copies of the Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy or something equally as good.
However, the launch of the audiobook service has led to a launch of a new download manager called eMusicRemote. Prior to the launch of Audiobooks, I had used this software in it's beta offering and thought it was alright. Okay, it's basically another copy of the Firefox browser tailored to eMusic with a download manager bolted on, but that didn't bother me too much. It worked and was quite interesting.
With the release of version 1 of the DLM however, problems have started to occur; the main being that I can no longer preview tracks within the DLM and have to use my normal browser (Opera in this case). When it comes to actually downloading the tracks however, I have found that thanks to a change of file format (now with the emx extension instead of the emp extension), I cannot use the old unofficial Linux download manager (eMusic/J) and have to use the new DLM. This means logging in twice and running two browsers when navigating eMusic.
The strange thing is, that file format problem does seem to be a bit intermittent. Sometimes the extension is emx, and at other times the extension is emp allowing me to use the eMusic/J again. It also appears, according to the message boards that I am the only person having this particular problem, although others are having problems of their own.
Now don't get me wrong, I still love emusic and have no intention of cancelling my account. In fact, I have been toying with the idea of uping my subscription to 75 downloads per month, since my current 40 doesn't seem to be enough. It's just a bit irritating.
I'm confident though, that these issues will be resolved in one way or another. And if it doesn't, well I can go back to downloading straight MP3 files from the website. I used to do this before I discovered eMusic/J. It just makes downloading albums more awkward since the browser will ask where to save each and every MP3, and I'll need to name the files correctly.
eMusic has launched an audiobook downloading service; separate from its music downloading service, but integrated into it's website. This is the part that I don't care about since I'm unlikely to start downloading audiobooks unless it includes copies of the Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy or something equally as good.
However, the launch of the audiobook service has led to a launch of a new download manager called eMusicRemote. Prior to the launch of Audiobooks, I had used this software in it's beta offering and thought it was alright. Okay, it's basically another copy of the Firefox browser tailored to eMusic with a download manager bolted on, but that didn't bother me too much. It worked and was quite interesting.
With the release of version 1 of the DLM however, problems have started to occur; the main being that I can no longer preview tracks within the DLM and have to use my normal browser (Opera in this case). When it comes to actually downloading the tracks however, I have found that thanks to a change of file format (now with the emx extension instead of the emp extension), I cannot use the old unofficial Linux download manager (eMusic/J) and have to use the new DLM. This means logging in twice and running two browsers when navigating eMusic.
The strange thing is, that file format problem does seem to be a bit intermittent. Sometimes the extension is emx, and at other times the extension is emp allowing me to use the eMusic/J again. It also appears, according to the message boards that I am the only person having this particular problem, although others are having problems of their own.
Now don't get me wrong, I still love emusic and have no intention of cancelling my account. In fact, I have been toying with the idea of uping my subscription to 75 downloads per month, since my current 40 doesn't seem to be enough. It's just a bit irritating.
I'm confident though, that these issues will be resolved in one way or another. And if it doesn't, well I can go back to downloading straight MP3 files from the website. I used to do this before I discovered eMusic/J. It just makes downloading albums more awkward since the browser will ask where to save each and every MP3, and I'll need to name the files correctly.