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Features
Fully searchable database
Yahoo! Music Engine
Music videos
Music news and newsletter
Artist profiles and spotlights
LAUNCHcast Radio - including create your own station
Multi-lingual compatibility
New Music Alert - recommendations sent to your email
Downloadable ringtones
Promotions with huge companies like Pepsi, Target, and Saturn
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Selection
Yahoo's own database of over 1 million songs. Two different services to choose from: Yahoo! Music Engine - their "free", pay for play service, access to 30+ radio stations and $0.99 songs, the abilities to rip and burn CD's, create playlists and recommend music other members; or Yahoo! Music Unlimited - their $4.99/month service (if billed annually, otherwise it's $6.99/month) offering access to playing AND saving (to your hard drive or a compatible, "approved" device) any and all songs in their library, the ability to share full songs with other members using Yahoo! Messenger, 120+ radio stations, $0.79 per song for burning to a CD and/or transferring music to a non-compatible (non-approved) device, and all the other features listed for the free service.
Over a million of the most current songs and music videos by today's most popular artists.
Older music and niche artists are in shorter supply here.
Once you stop paying the monthly subscription fee, you can no longer access songs you downloaded that you didn't pay $0.79 for.
Music engine supports most audio formats, but music downloaded from Yahoo! Itself is in the ASF (Advanced Streaming Format) - Windows Media Player's format, essentially
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Price
$0.99 per song with free service
$0.79 per song with paid subscription service
Paid subscription is $4.99/month if paid annually or $6.99/month if paid monthly
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Technical Support / Customer Service
Enormous, fully-searchable Help engine, includes FAQ
Almost too big - a bit lost-in-machine style
Searchability - superb!
Navigability - tricky
Beyond this Help guide, you can contact customer support via email query form
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Tutorials
Since this isn't a P2P service, their tutorials are limited to using their services (ie the Yahoo! Music Engine, etc.)
As far as these go, they're ample and adequate, the info is clear
And when all else fails, as mentioned above, their Help section is extensive
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System Compatibility
Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0+
Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher
Mac-users, Linux-user, keep searching; there's nothing for you here.
iPod is not one of their supported devices
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Download Speed
Nobody's faster (equivalent to iTunes) |
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Refund/Cancellation Policy
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