Yahoo Inc. launched there music downloads services yesterday. As a part of the lauch all U.S. subscribers are offered a week's free subscription to the service that claims to have more than one million tracks encoded at 192Kbs available to download and play. Customers can choose either to buy an annual subscription at $59.88 or a monthly subscription at $6.99. However, if you do not keep up the payments, the music you have downloaded becomes unplayable.
The service will allow customers to buy tracks and burn them to CD outright. Yahoo's price per track is 79c compared with Napster's 99c. Alternatively, music can be transferred to a 'Play for Sure' compatible portable device based around the Microsoft Windows DRM 10 software. However, these music players are mostly from Creative and iRiver and form a minority of the market even in the US.
This service is only available to Windows XP clients, and with Windows Media Player 9.0.
News source: PC Pro
