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BTO Offers Unlimited Music Downloads

Posted: 06th Mar, 2003 By: MarkJ

BTOpenworlds Dotmusic portal has today announced its latest offer of unlimited music downloads:

BT OFFERS UNLIMITED MUSIC DOWNLOADS WITH DOTMUSIC ON DEMAND

BT's music website, dotmusic, today launches the first legal music service in Europe to offer unlimited downloads from a major record label supported service. The launch of 'dotmusic on demand' ( http://www.dotmusic.com ), powered by OD2, represents a quantum shift for legal music services in Europe and is the first genuine alternative to illegal services such as Kazaa.

The service, powered by Peter Gabriel's digital distribution company OD2, will offer more than 150,000 tracks from major record labels including Universal, BMG, EMI and Warner Music - plus hundreds of smaller independent labels.

Users can download tracks from an incredibly diverse range of artists, from Ms Dynamite to Elvis Presley. The catalogue also includes many rarities such as Coldplay's first EP, of which only a few thousand were made.

dotmusic on demand pricing

Subscribers to the dotmusic on demand unlimited package are able to download and play as many tracks from the catalogue as they wish for a monthly fee of £9.99, less than the cost of one album. The following options are available:

* Free Trial -a 3-day free trial is available for users to experience the service at no cost.

* dotmusic on demand unlimited - at £9.99 per month, this package provides unlimited downloads and streaming. Users signing up before 30th April will also receive 10 free permanent downloads that can be 'burned' to CD and transferred to portable devices.

* dotmusic on demand basic - at £4.99 per month, this package provides up to 50 downloads and up to 500 streams per month.

* dotmusic on demand pay-as-you-go - a way to purchase individual downloads without a monthly commitment. Prices vary from £0.99 - £1.49 per track.

dotmusic on demand is fully integrated into the dotmusic site, enabling subscribers to go straight from reading an interview with an artist, to downloading tracks from their new album with just one click. The service also includes several genre-based radio stations with no DJ's or adverts - just music. In addition, subscribers to the service will have access to exclusive content including videos and competitions not available to other dotmusic users.

Subscribers can create and share playlists of their favourite tracks, and thus share their tastes with others to discover new music. For example, a subscriber who likes Foo Fighters might discover Queens of the Stone Age by looking at a fellow fan's playlists.