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Yahoo Music: Trading bad for worse

Started by mathewi · 7 months ago

Yahoo has been saying for some time that it was planning to euthanize its music subscription service, but it wasn’t clear what it would replace the service with. Now it has become clear: Yahoo has sold the operation to Real Networks and will be migrating users over to the Rhapsody se ... Continue reading »

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  • Steve Guttman

    7 months ago

    Hold on a sec. First of all, some of us really like streaming music--particularly when it integrates really well with your home audio system, like Sonos does. I have a napster subscription which works with my Sonos at home and my PC at work. It's great.

    Secondly. 1.5 M people paying $13/mon is $234 M/yr. How many web businesses are pulling in that much cash? Seems like it must take a lot to get you excited.
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  • mathewi

    7 months ago

    Hey Steve -- you have every right to like streaming music. I don't.
    And I would argue that the numbers of people who have signed up for
    either Yahoo Music or Rhapsody or any of the other streaming networks
    proves that. 1.5 million people may be a nice little business -- and
    no doubt would be for any startup -- but a) most of that goes towards
    licensing fees, and b) realistically speaking 1.5 million for a
    company like Yahoo or even Real for that matter is chicken feed.
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