eMusic Europe is online! – Review of the Popular Online Music Service

This review was updated in July 2011.

What is eMusic?

eMusic is an online music service.

They have a huge library with over 10’000’000 music MP3s – free from copy protection – in every genre. Additionally there are also audio books available.

eMusic is my favourite source for Swing and Jazz music, I’m downloading all kind of music, though.

For a long time it was unavailable for different European countries, meanwhile they have opened up eMusic Europe and eMusic UK.

How does eMusic work?

1. Start your free trial: You sign up and get a free credit of $10 / €10 / £ 10.50 and you can download up to 25 music tracks within 7 days. Afterwards you’ll pay monthly.
2. You download the eMusic download manager
3. You download your MP3 songs and they will automatically be synchronized with your preferred media player as iTunes, Windows Media Player and Winamp. (If there is a problem with the download, you can download them again)
4. Listen your songs with any MP3 player or  media player including the iPod and Creative Zen.
5. You can cancel your subscription at any time, 24 hours a day online, and there is no cancellation fee

eMusic Europe price plans

eMusic Lite
payment: € 6,49 (every 30 days) = download credit: € 6,49

eMusic Basic
payment: € 11,99 (every 30 days) = download credit: € 11,99

eMusic Plus
payment: € 15,99 (every 30 days) plus bonus € 1,00 = download credit € 16,99

eMusic Premium
payment: € 20,99 (every 30 days) plus bonus € 2,00 = download credit € 22,99

eMusic Fan
payment: € 31,99 (every 30 days) plus bonus € 4,00 = download credit € 35,99

eMusic Enthusiast
payment: € 41,99 (every 30 days) plus bonus € 6,00 = download credit € 47,99

eMusic Connoisseur
payment: € 79.99 (every 30 days) plus bonus € 15,00 = download credit € 94,99

Also available:
Quaterly, bi-annual and annual price plans .

Click here to start your 7-day risk-free trial now

Who is eMusic for?

If you are regularly downloading music online and if you also love independent and alternative music then eMusic is the right choice for you.

If you rarely download music online and if you are only looking for music from major labels, then the service might not make sense to you. Although, eMusic is adding music from major labels all the time.

What I like about eMusic

Altough the prices are higher than in the US store, eMusic Europe is cheaper than other services: a single song is usually credited for € 0,49!

In comparison: Amazon’s price range starts at € 0,68, but most songs cost between € 0,77 and € 0,98 per song.

The catalogue is really huge. And the great thing is, you find a lot of albums which are sold out as cds. When you are lucky you will find these cds somewhere second hand, but often pretty expensive.

Downside

The only real downside I’ve found to this service is that there is no roll-over of unused credits. That means, you have to use your credit within 30 days, otherwise you will lose it.

Highly recommended

I have discovered so much great music I woulnd’t have found without this service. I highly recommend eMusic (Europe)!

Now it’s your move! Try eMusic risk-free and make your own opinion.

Click here to start your 7-day risk-free trial now

 

This review was updated in July 2011.

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