Anybody use Music Subscription Services?

[jagowar]

Just wondering if anybody else here does... trying to get some opinions on the other services. Reason I ask is I am using the 15 day trial that comes with the zune and after using it I dont know if Im going to be able to give it up. Its really a very cool way to get music. and am trying to determine if the other services are as good and better than the zune....

What really is selling me on the zune is the consistent audio quality level (all music is 192 wma which sounds amazingly good... better than 320 mp3 that ive done in the past). And all the content is tagged nicely with large album art embedded. My old collection really was a mess by comparison. The one issue I have found is their library doesnt have everything (nobody does) but it says they have 3 million tracks with the subscription. (would that be the best or does anybody have a better library).

But to anybody else thinking about a subscription if you have a large library its well worth it to get a subscription. It does suck that you have to keep paying for the music or it dies but its still very cool to be able to just download new stuff all the time w/o having to pay for each song/album. Really if you buy more than 1 CD a month its actually a better value.

[Conan]

I own almost 100 CDs (around 80). Although I appreciate all the CDs I have, but a to me a really good CD has 5 songs I actually like to listen to a lot on it. Is it worth buying the CD? Maybe. Is it worth downloading songs for $0.99? Sure. A subscription to download songs where songs die? Sounds like crap. Nobody seems to like Zune.

[jagowar]

actually alot of people like the new zunes... the old ones not so much.

and even at 99 cents a song do you buy more than 15 a month? (vs paying 15 bucks for the whole library and getting the same songs automatically). i download about 20 or 30 songs a month (half through amazon/walmart and half illegally because amazon doesnt have it). probably the biggest reason im digging the subscription is because of the level of quality.... dont know how many have downloaded music illegally but alot of it is horrible quality wise (the harder to find stuff especially) and its usually not tagged at all.

really just wondering if i should stick to the zune or try out the others as well (and if there is any reason to waste the time trying the others out). ms was pretty damn smart including a 15 day trial with the zune because i always hated the idea of a subscription but now that ive actually used it im actually liking it more than i thought i would.