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Musica Offers Music Downloads

// December 14th, 2004 // General // 2,367 views

Apparently the local music industry is abuzz after Musica, the South African music store, launched South Africa’s first website (sic), offering downloadable music. More than 400,000 songs are already available on the website, with another 800,000 to be added within the next 3 months.

The biggest plus-point is that this service is 100% legal. The basic track price is R9.99, but you can get tracks from as little as R8.33 depending on the package you buy. Alternatively, you can listen to an entire track for only 10c per stream.

Tracks can be streamed or permanently downloaded in WMV and MP3 format and most tracks have a free 30-second sample available. This enables you to download a track to your PC and burn it to CD or transfer it to portable MP3/WMA player. To ‘burn’ the track to a CD, or transfer it to a portable player, one has to follow the media player instructions on the site’s FAQ.

I’ve picked up two snags though – Firstly, downloads cannot be transferred from one PC to another and Win NT, Win 95 and Macs are not supported.

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4 Responses to “Musica Offers Music Downloads”

1. Rich...! says:

   2004/12/14 at 18:22

   Crazy, I’d say that they’re more than snags, on the transfer thing, do you own the song or don’t you? It’s really silly to restrict transfer like that, ‘cos if people wanted to get a pirate copy of a song it’s easy enough to do. You should assume then that they are basically honest.

   And on the Mac issue…FACISTS!
2. Aquila says:

   2004/12/16 at 09:38

   Agreed, what happens when I want to move the songs from the downloading machine to one that I actually want the music played from? I wonder if the song will spontaneously combust?
3. Anonymous says:

   2005/05/27 at 20:03

   Only just seen your post on this now, so apologies for the delayed comment, but…
   Why on earth would anyone in their right mind want to pay R9.99 to download a single track, when you can download an ENTIRE ALBUM for as little as R6 (yes, six Rand) from a Russian MP3 site such as http://www.allofmp3.com, with absolutely no restrictions on what you do with the tracks once you’ve downloaded them in high-quality MP3 format?
   And yes, the Russian sites are 100% LEGAL because of their different legal approach to copyright.