AOL Music Now Relaunches Music Service

Planetrudy writes "Reuters reports that AOL has launched a new version of its Music Now subscription service. It's web-based, slick, performs well (fast page loads and downloads), and contains over 2.5M songs and 'thousands of videos.' This launch seems to be in line with AOL's 'tearing down the wall around the garden' strategy."

ooops, NOT 10 Million SONGS

[yagu]

Went to AOL's home page to check this out, and there on page one was the ad for 10 Million Singles! Thought, "Wow, four times more than the article stated!", then discovered it was a dating site advertisement, sigh.

Aha, there is another link that goes to AOL's music service... Alas, it's one of those:

1. 30 day free trial
2. enter your billing information first

kind of "offers", not my cup of tea.

For those who care, the "Service Agreement" which you really should read before signing up is more than 5000 words long. Good luck reading and understanding what's new and different about AOL for this offering.

Of course the very first provision of their service agreement is: " We may modify these Terms of Service at any time.... "

YMMV

AOL's music service

[suv4x4]

AOL Music Now Launches Music Service!: noone cares

AOL Music Now Relaunches Music Service!: noone cares still

BTW I really enjoy their pink "only works in US" creeping bar.

It's about time music is sold from a single retailer worldwide, online. It's not that we have a local Britney Spears to translate and resing the songs, so what's with that non-sense? Only shows how desperately out of tune with the world the recording/movie industry is.

Re:Tear down the wall, but give the user a tether.

[jb.hl.com]

Fair point. I do however have some faith in people learning from their mistakes, and I goddamn well hope AOL has done so.

Re:An unpopular view

[suv4x4]

I have found though, that for newer users especially seniors citizens find alot of what AOL has to offer less intimidating than being let loose on the wilds of the internet

It's so much cosier to sleep in the sh*t we're in right now than try something new, isn't it.
Here's another cruel and unpopular view: if AOL is for senior citizens, does it mean AOL will die along with them?

Re:Tear down the wall, but give the user a tether.

[Parafilmus]

"this is an AOL service. It's hardly targeted at Firefox/Linux/Winamp/whatever users"

Actually, AOL owns Winamp, and AOL owns the primary developer of Firefox.
For that reason, I'd be surprised if this new service doesn't work with them.