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With the release of Yahoo’s new music service it furthers my suspicion that Yahoo is not a search company. Yahoo is a media company and good one at that.

So, I downloaded the new Yahoo Music Engine. It looks pretty good – especially at $4.99/month. I was very happy to notice an iTunes like music browsing interface (minus the Genre pane). I think this is the only way to go for looking at your music collection.

Another one of the cool things in Yahoo’s new music offering is the ability to share music with friends on YIM for free. As someone who often wants to share music, this is ultra cool. I didn’t try it out though – because none of my friends whom I want to share music with are on YIM. And thats the catch. Damn those proprietary IM networks!

BUT the software noticably bogged down my computer. It took 80 MB of memory on a fresh startup! So it was removed and I am continuuing with Rhapsody for a little while longer.

In closing, I would like to reflect – at $5 a month, I just don’t see how $1 songs can appeal to anyone anymore. What is Apple going to do to counter this? And also, I’m selling my 20GB 4G iPod so I can use the PlayForSure stuff with Rhapsody. If you want to buy it contact me.

Update: Check out this post from the author YME.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 11th, 2005 at 9:35 am and is filed under Zooidal.