For eMusic Live, the USB devices are just the next step for a service that they, and competitors Clear Channel already provide: burning CDs of live performances right after a show ends.


eMusic Live

Good idea! It would have been perfect if it offered lossless files and not mp3's though. mp3 quality ranges from lousy 128kbps encodings to almost always transparent lame -aps. If I ever see one of these kiosks I would like it to offer the latter obviously.

$10 for a few lo-qual MP3itized unmastered songs? I wonder if they would be split by song or one whole continuous recording. Split would suck with MP3's gaps, but having it all lumped into one file would suck too... splitting & re-encoding would not be fun or helpful to the quality.

Well, at least distribution is legal. Guess that means me & my friends can split the $10 5 ways.

Also, what happens if a concert is larger than the capacity of the 128MB keychains?

hrm. think of the poor lossless audio fans. meh.

emusic switched from fhg 128 to lame aps for their download service some time ago, so i'd expect them to offer it here

Are you sure it was Fhg before? I still have a couple of 128kbps MP3s from EMusic, and they sound absolutely afwul. Encspot identifies them as Xing (old) encodes.

no, i'm not sure, i never used it. my bad. point is that they have switched to aps now from whatever they were using before.

From the eMusic site: Lame 3.92 -alt-preset standard.

eMusic Encoding