http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/Sep 17th 2007 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/Sep 17th 2007 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/
FairUse4WM - Google it!]]>Sep 17th 2007 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/Sep 17th 2007 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/Sep 17th 2007 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/
I'm still waiting for that Amazon MP3 store - DRM-free, standard MP3's at a good price sound good to me.

And maybe we'll see DRM-free FLAC files sold for an OK price at some point. That'll be the moment at which I'll seriously start considering to buy music online, and not before.]]>Sep 17th 2007 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/
Although engadget does seem very ipodphilic...]]>Sep 17th 2007 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/Sep 17th 2007 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/or FairUse4WM, whatever]]>Sep 17th 2007 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/
serously, this will last a whole 3 months until they realize A) it doesn't work, and B) iPod Users want in on the action too.

Slow loading for me right now, i'll have to take a look at the selection and try it out before i totally shun it, but no iPod Support means a sad service... then again, as it's been said, there are loopholes.]]>Sep 17th 2007 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/Sep 17th 2007 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/
So bring it on spiralfrog we'll just rip your fuckin DRM right off and go on our merry way!]]>Sep 17th 2007 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/after whinning for years that there is available download that will suit you.
now a company makes it, and for free.
yet the rights have to be paid in a way: thus the restrictions.
and instead of greeting this with cheers, all you do is jump right into wanting to screw them, by stripping down the small restrictions (2 music players, and 1 computer. with login once a month, that will cover the add revenue)

for the first time in my life I would side with the majors: you suck man.
and with guys like you, the company will at the end be out of work: back to paying a fortune for tracks, or do it illegally.

now we know for sure, that when you downloaded illegally, it was not ffor the high price, not for the drm stuff, not even doing it because there was no proper way put in place. it was just you trying willingly to get for free what has a cost anyway: stealing.

sad: after years of majors not embrassing the digital age. they finally did. and there you come not embracing it properly yourself.
maybe they were right all these years???]]>Sep 17th 2007 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/Sep 17th 2007 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/Sep 17th 2007 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/Sep 17th 2007 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/Sep 17th 2007 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/
My bet is that most of those songs downloaded would most likely ended up being played on an iPod anyways.]]>Sep 17th 2007 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/Good search would be nice.
I won't download anything DRM-infested. Thanks.]]>Sep 17th 2007 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/
I think SpiralFrog's business model would have been pretty welcome a year ago, but now that DRM-free legal files are available this is too little too late.

Personally, I still buy and rip CDs to a lossless for audio-quality and DRM reasons.]]>Sep 17th 2007 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/Sep 17th 2007 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/Sep 17th 2007 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/illegal downloads -> music-torrents aren't legal

here you can get something free, without fearing to get busted for music for christ sake :-p]]>Sep 17th 2007 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/Sep 17th 2007 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/Sep 17th 2007 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/
Of the legal music/video downloading, this seems like a decent solution. But it wouldn't be hard in the least to just playback the downloaded tracks with an audio/video feed to another recordable source.

"Nothing's fully secure."]]>Sep 17th 2007 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/Sep 17th 2007 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/
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1. Cannot be burned to CD.
2. Can only be uploaded to 2 devices.
3. Does not work on ipod.

The solution is simple - just use FairUse to strip the DRM and voila - use one of the billion WMA to MP3 etc converters out there and then you can burn them, upload to every device you have - as many times as you want and add it to iTunes and then onto your ipod. Sure you will lose some quality in the conversion - but once you strip the DRM - you can do whatever you want with the files - Zune, iPod .. go wild kids!

Now no more "can i play it on xxx device" comments ok people? :)
]]>Sep 17th 2007 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/Great service, great music at a fair price.
No I don't work there, just think they have a great product.
http://www.othermusic.com/]]>Sep 17th 2007 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/
Windows Digital Rights Management is not supported by Apple Macintosh computers. Macintosh supports the AAC Digital Rights Management, but it is closed to Apple's own use only.

Granted the dumbest of all is Microsoft for not supporting their own "plays for sure" standard.

Creative players play the files just fine and are immune to the BS of Microsoft and Apple.]]>Sep 17th 2007 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/Sep 17th 2007 5:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/
Talk about being stupid....AAC isn't a Digital Rights Management scheme.]]>Sep 17th 2007 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairPlay]]>Sep 17th 2007 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/Sep 17th 2007 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/Sep 17th 2007 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/
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Common sense people....really, find some. The effort in doing so isn't as bad as you think.

....of course some of you argue that you have a right to download free music from your favorite bands (cause we know the day when a iTunes song will play on a SanDisk player without any DRM stripping software or hacking, will come.) Right....that foil hat on straight? ]]>Sep 17th 2007 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/Sep 17th 2007 5:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/Sep 17th 2007 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/Sep 17th 2007 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/Sep 17th 2007 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/Sep 17th 2007 9:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/Sep 17th 2007 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/Sep 18th 2007 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/spiralfrogs-free-music-download-service-goes-live/
...um, indicted by the RIAA? Seriously, if you were paying for the DRM, that would be one thing, but beggars can't be choosers. Ad-supported "free" stuff can be DRM'd all they want, I'll just choose for myself whether I want to take it or leave it. Very whiny article, Engadget...]]>Sep 18th 2007 9:00PM