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drc54 · 04-18-2007, 02:34 AM

I've been contemplating to subscribe to sky.fm. They have a good selection of smooth and up-tempo jazz. As it is, the free access is good enough since, but I reckon it's not a sustainable business model. They need a good subcription base to be able to survive. The $5 per month is reasonable I guess for commercial free and "higher fidelity" data stream options. They did put up the banner about possible shutting down due to this increase in royalties payments.

But my indicision was more on whether the $5 is money well spent considering that I probably tune-in once or twice a week. I still enjoy music the old fashion way, which is visit HMV store, check out their selection of CD's, ripping them and use my PocketTunes or CorePlayer on the go. iTunes is still not available for us guys in Singapore

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So subcribe and hope the radio.net folks have enough money to stay alive, or continue the free ride and pray they'll find a way to slug this one out to stay in business. Tough choice.

04-18-2007, 02:34 AM	#9
drc54 Enthusiast Posts: 41 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Singapore Device: Palm m515, now TX	I've been contemplating to subscribe to sky.fm. They have a good selection of smooth and up-tempo jazz. As it is, the free access is good enough since, but I reckon it's not a sustainable business model. They need a good subcription base to be able to survive. The $5 per month is reasonable I guess for commercial free and "higher fidelity" data stream options. They did put up the banner about possible shutting down due to this increase in royalties payments. But my indicision was more on whether the $5 is money well spent considering that I probably tune-in once or twice a week. I still enjoy music the old fashion way, which is visit HMV store, check out their selection of CD's, ripping them and use my PocketTunes or CorePlayer on the go. iTunes is still not available for us guys in Singapore . So subcribe and hope the radio.net folks have enough money to stay alive, or continue the free ride and pray they'll find a way to slug this one out to stay in business. Tough choice.