{"id":3766,"date":"2008-07-31T22:10:06","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T02:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=3766"},"modified":"2008-08-02T10:52:06","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T14:52:06","slug":"emusic-where-canada-still-means-more-expensive-and-second-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/31\/emusic-where-canada-still-means-more-expensive-and-second-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"emusic: where Canada still means more expensive and second-rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not going to get all <a href=\"http:\/\/swindleeeee.com\/\">Swindleeeee!!!!!<\/a> about it, but I&#8217;ve noticed a few things missing in the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emusic.com\/\">emusic Canada<\/a> site. I lost all my MP3s in the break-in, but I thought I&#8217;d downloaded all of the ones I&#8217;d bought from emusic a couple of days ago.<\/p>\n<p>Not so. For unexplained reasons, I got humming <em>The Whole House is Singing<\/em>, and I thought I needed to listen to some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alasdairroberts.com\/\">Alasdair Roberts<\/a>. Couldn&#8217;t find it in the share, so I went back to emusic to download it again, and rats!, it&#8217;s gone. So here&#8217;s some music I&#8217;ve paid for, but now emusic (champions of no-DRM) can&#8217;t make good on their promise to let you re-download everything you&#8217;ve bought.<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;ve also noticed that most of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.devapremalmiten.com\/\">Deva Premal<\/a> tracks [hey, they&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/c-raine.com\/\">Catherine<\/a>&#8216;s] have gone, but have had no compulsion whatsoever to hum them &#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not going to get all Swindleeeee!!!!! about it, but I&#8217;ve noticed a few things missing in the new emusic Canada site. I lost all my MP3s in the break-in, but I thought I&#8217;d downloaded all of the ones I&#8217;d bought from emusic a couple of days ago. Not so. For unexplained reasons, I got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[1338,45,62,329],"class_list":["post-3766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-emusic","tag-mp3","tag-rant","tag-theft"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-YK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3773,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766\/revisions\/3773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}