MP3.com has announced that it has flipped the switch back on for it's my.mp3.com service once again, offering the two different service plans as reported earlier.

The Basic advertising-driven service will allow the user of the system to store up to 25 CD's online, while the premier subscription account which is available for a annual fee of $49.95 allows for up too 500 CD's to be stored digitally on the service, adding increased functionality and less advertising.

MP3.com enters the game again with it's Beam-it and Instant Listening technology, allowing users to enable CD's to be added to their collection and the ability to instantly listen in to new music they purchase while waiting for the physical CD to arrive in the mail.

As a reward to returning users of the service, MP3.com is reporting that any existing tracks which a user had in his or her account before it was shut down previously will be available again, and not count towards the total number of discs which can be stored on that users account. Old users are encouraged to return to the service by utilizing the password from the previously "frozen" account.

Good ta go. So I'm guessing that the suits have been satisfied?

oh so let me get this straight, I get to give MP3.com leverage as a DSP in the future, give them all the data on my listening habbits _AND_ I get to pay $49.95 a year?

Cool!

Another good point (SR: PHO) not mentioned here; the system randomly asks you to insert a CD to check that you still have it... if I had my CD collection lying around why wouldn't I just listen to it? Goes against the purpose of the system doesn't it?

No my.mp3.com for me!

ur kidding right? thats stupid. if you didnt have the cd right at that moment would they delete the songs that are from that album in your account?

what if you lost the cd but DID pay for it? when then?

[doobybrain]

Why should I pay that much for MP3.com to take away sound quality from the actual CDs and retransmit it to me? This is simply stupid, there is absolutely no reason to pay for it, especially if you have to keep reinserting the CDS.

iansir, damn good point.

wait. I bought the music already, right? What exactly am I paying for here? Oh, I'm paying for the right to listen to my music anywhere I want to. Wait a minute, I thought I already had that right. What a croc.

Jamuraa (the Linux guy)

I feel sorry for the investors who got tricked into investing into this crap.

Well that solved the problem of a single log in have every cd in exsistance on it with the 500 limit. (2 or more simotaneously {man i can't spell} logged on probably kills an id)

Sadly I fear that most of what is going on with this service is being highly if not fully dictated by the music industry.

This service is all but useless. This world just isn't ready for it. Or rather yet this country...

This has nothing to do with this news story...but hey, I gotta post this somewhere

This http://yahoo.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-4055479.html?tag=st.ne.1002.thed.ni is complete irony.

-Frawg-