I've been a happy emusic subscriber for awhile now. I've found a ton of indie and smaller label bands that I never would have known about without it. Their downloading software couldn't be easier to use, and of course, everything is DRM-free MP3 encoded.

kimgkimg said:Cool, thanks OP, I'll have to go check this out. You can always go into eMusic and check out items and save them for later (that's generally what I do when I hunt for music I want to download.) Now I'll just need to make sure I have at least 65 tracks worth of stuff queued up before I apply the card.

Do the cards have an expiration date by when it needs to be used on the site? (I know the cards that came with those MP3 players had a hard expiration date on them after which they would no longer be usable.)

I can't verify whether these have an expiration date on them or not. All of the ones I've ever gotten I've acitvated quickly and then used the tracks up over the next 60 days. Typically the ones that are listed on eBay state something to the effect of "you have a year to activate the code and then 60 days to download". I don't know if these are precisely the same cards that the sellers use though. I've done quite a number of these cards but honestly don't recall if there was an expiration date on them.

Yet, I do know the codes that came with the mp3 players did have expiration dates. However, I was not able to get any of those on the first pass (last Thanksgiving, I think). I ended up finding some early in 2008 (after the expiration date had passed... although you wouldn't know that since the expiration date was only listed on the inside), yet the codes I got still activated without a problem even though they were "expired". I don't know if that was an anomaly or not.

If I get a chance to pick up some of these cards, I'll post if there's an expiration or not. Please feel free to do the same if you get there first.

kimgkimg said:Yeah, I'll definitely post any information that I find. Good that you were still able to use the codes after the expiration on the MP3 players. Frankly I don't know how they can enforce those expiration dates when there's nothing on the external packaging that indicates there's an expiration.

The reason I ask on the cards is that I was planning on using them as stocking stuffers this year and didn't want them expiring before they could be used.

The lack of an external expiration was exactly what I would have argued had the code been rejected. I didn't really care about the mp3 player, but I purchased the bundle for the eMusic card only.

Since I didn't get any on the first pass, but I knew from the thread here that they expired, I was leary about it when I found one months later. But I tried it and it went through, so I was pleased. I found three more a bit later at another CC and they went through as well. I hadn't seen any bundles since February until I found one on a clearance table in June or July. However, interestingly the price was up to $15 or $20 or something, so I passed. It was a great deal, but the 15 tracks/month was a hindrance. Especially when you could occasionally find these 65-packs on eBay to shore up the lean months.

I have a couple of those codes remaining at present, which is why I didn't jump on this on Friday when I saw them.... well that and the long line at this (notoriously S-L-O-W) Circuit City. I think I would like to go by and pick at least one up to see about the expiration date, and if there isn't one, or it's pretty extended, I'll probably pick up a bunch, to keep the music flowing once the subscriptions (from the mp3 bundles) expire in Jan/Feb.

Then again, I'm probably going to canx my XM in December, in which case, I won't have that steady stream of indie tracks to acquire either, so who knows....

Anyway, I realize it's not for everybody, but eMusic HAS been really good to me this year with a lot of good music... Loaded up on a bunch of Rolling Stones tracks for the week or so they were available before they got pulled.... Rolling Stones’ Catalogue Pulled From eMusic

[edited to correct grammar mistake...]

I'm on my 4th card now and have a 5th standing by. eMusic is very good IF you like Indie, Folk, and Blues. At least in my opinion. Per eMusic you have 60 days to download the 65 songs. In my experience, I believe that will be the case. After that you'll be out of luck. I wondered whether I'd be able to use these after discovering them a month ago for same price at CC. I had just cancelled my eMusic account after learning they'd been charging me $10/month for 4 months for audiobooks. That was my fault but still pissed me off. I should have read the fine print closer on the trial membership. I'd recommend these but please all Austin buyers let me stock up once more before you hit the local CC stores! Good luck!

Dropped by CC on my way back from work. They had tons of the cards available (they were on an endcap near the register in the video games section, and they also had a rack setup near the video games where they had them out as well.) On the back of the box it does say something like card expiration is 04/01/08, but I'll take it up with my credit card company if these things fail to activate on eMusic.

emusic has given my email address to spammers. I bought four of those RCA MP3 player/180 free download packages last year. I created four new email addresses that I only used for the emusic accounts. All four of them started getting spam within days. It has since slowed down, but I'm glad I didn't use my regular email address.

That said, emusic has a huge selection of music (although none of the more popular, modern artists), and for less than eight cents/song, this is a great deal.

RAOK if someone can use...

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For anyone who got in on this deal, as the poster of this deal, I feel obligated to relay my latest experience...

I managed to pick up a few of these at my local CC. I used a couple of them, and just went in to do another one this evening... For the first time in my experience, the code was rejected - "that code is expired", or something to that effect...

So, I tried with two additional cards. And got the same result. I presume it is because the cards "expired on 4/1/08" and now that it's 10/1/08 in some places, they've expired.... I guess they have a +6-month lifespan.

In any case, any of these that were purchased at CC about the time of this deal are still within the 30 days of the return policy for Circuit City.

Not the way I wanted this to go, but I did manage to use a couple of them, so as long as I get the rest of these refunded (which I should), it'll end up being fine. I guess I'm glad I tried one out tonight and found the unfortunate results. Although, of course, I wish I'd done a couple last night so I'd have gotten a few more downloads to work....

Oh well.

Good luck all.

Mike

I gave the OP green on this even though I didn't see this thread until just now, when It's already dead, just because I appreciated his explanation of eMusic. I bought an MP3 player at CC some months ago (from a deal posted here, naturally) that came with X number of months (maybe a year) of 10 free downloads from this service. I don't remember exactly how long it was for because I found it hard to pull anything from there over an extended period of time that matched my tastes and that I didn't already have. That being said, the price is right and for some tastes, it's a good buy.