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My Music Inc
Date
Reviewed: 05/08/2006
Music Selection: 9.8
out of 10
Online Help: 9.9
out of 10 |
Overall:
 
(4.9 out of 5!) #1 Overall
Tech Support:
9.9 out of
10
Signup Process: 9.4
out of 10 |
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Perhaps the main reason
why we've rated this site so high is that their Technical Support
is second-to-none. Like their Customer Service team,
they responded promptly and courteously to our request
for assistance...
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Free-Music-Downloads
Date Reviewed: 02/15/2006
Music Selection:
9.4
out of 10
Online Help:
9.5 out of 10 |
Overall:
(4.8 out of 5)
Tech Support:
9.5 out of
10
Signup Process:
8.6
out of 10 |
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This is an excellent
new site with tons of extras including: Excellent
music and movie offerings, great technical support, and
excellent customer service. Just released a new
lower price.
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All
Cool Music
Date
Reviewed: 05/07/2006
Music Selection: 9.4
out of 10
Online Help: 9.2
out of 10 |
Overall:
(4.7 out of 5)
Tech Support:
9.4 out of
10
Signup Process: 9
out of 10 |
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AllCoolMusic
has a leading-edge website with an advanced sales process!
The software they provide is cutting-edge and their
customer service department is one of the best we've
seen.
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iMusicSearch
Date Reviewed: 04/03/2006
Music Selection:
9.6 out of
10
Online Help:
9.2
out of 10 |
Overall:
(4.7 out of 5)
Tech Support:
9.5 out of
10
Signup Process:
9 out of
10 |
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iMusicSearch's
online member site is also top-notch in our books. There
is a wealth of information available, along with an
online technical support tool we could use to
communicate with their Technical Support
group...impressive support integration!
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MP3 Rocket
Date Reviewed: 02/15/2006
Music Selection:
9.4
out of 10
Online Help:
9.5 out of 10 |
Overall:
(4.6 out of 5)
Tech Support:
9.5 out of
10
Signup Process:
9
out of 10 |
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This is an excellent
new site with tons of extras including: Excellent
music and movie offerings, great technical support, and
excellent customer service. Just released a new
lower price.
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MP3DownloadCity
Date Reviewed:
4/02/2006
Music Selection:
8.5 out of 10
Online Help:
7 out of 10 |
Overall:
(4.3 out of 5)
Tech Support:
8.5 out of 10
Signup Process:
9 out of 10 |
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MP3DownloadCity
claims to offer a 100% iron clad satisfaction guarantee,
however when we approached them for a refund we did
not get any response.
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KLiteTK
Date Reviewed:
02/01/2006
Music Selection:
8.5
out of 10
Online Help:
6
out of 10 |
Overall:
(4.0 out of 5)
Tech Support:
7 out of
10
Signup Process:
8
out of 10 |
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It's difficult to rate
them on product usability, as it was not clear which
product they offered. We were directed to several different
products...
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RealRhapsody
Date Reviewed:
05/04/2006
Music Selection: 8
out of 10
Online Help:
6.5 out of 10
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Overall:
(3.5 out of 5)
Tech Support:
4 out of
10
Signup Process:
8
out of 10 |
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RealRhapsody offers varying
levels of support, from an online knowledge base (with
a large library of FAQs) to email support. They do offer
a 14 day trial, however you must call them to cancel
your account.
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MP3DownloadHQ
Date Reviewed:
05/04/2006
Music Selection: 8.1
out of 10
Online Help: 6
out of 10 |
Overall:
(3.5 out of 5)
Tech Support:
7.3 out of 10
Signup Process:
7.2
out of 10 |
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We would rate their online
help feature as below average. There is much information,
however it's confusing, and has a lot of useless advertising
and deals which have nothing to do with downloading
music....
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Napster Date
Reviewed: 03/15/2006
Music Selection:
7.5 out of 10
Online Help:
7.2 out of 10
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Overall:
(3.5 out of 5)
Tech Support:
7.5 out of
10
Signup Process:
8 out of 10 |
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Napster offers
unlimited access to millions of songs and up to 50
commercial free radio stations. Initial reviews
were very promising. We look to see this site
higher on the list once we have more information.
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Peer
to Peer (P2P)
Network User Statistics
Number of Users -
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Fluctuates between 1 and 5 million simultaneous users. Last
year, it was steady at about 4 million, The Pew internet
project, citing comScore Media Metrix, notes that 35 million
unique users ran KaAza as of June 2003.
http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Filesharing_April_04.pdf
Usage
(average files shared/downloaded, types of files being
shared)
Billions of files have been downloaded to date. 1,000
downloads every minute. As many as 900 million
files shared at one time. Mostly mp3’s and small
files (3-7mb). Movies to a lesser extent. (MP3) make up 48%,
videos 27, and “other”—software, etc 24%. |
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